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Fabrication of Self-Assembled Catalytic Nanostructures

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Nanocatalyst; Nanorods; Nanostructures

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A nanocatalyst is a material which performs the role of chemical catalysis while confined to a physical size of 10–1,000 nm. More important, the nanometer size of the catalyst material affords these materials access to unique physical and chemical properties which makes them capable of delivering enhanced catalytic performance. Most nanostructures are obtained as a result of self-assembly, governed by the physical and chemical nature of the material systems.

Overview

A catalyst is a material entity which participates in a chemical reaction in such a way as to reduce the activation energy required to change one chemical species, reactants, into a second chemical species, products. Ideally the catalyst material can emerge at the end of the desired chemical reaction unaltered after performing this function. If the catalyst material is in a different phase than the reactants (e.g., a gas-phase reaction occurring on a solid-state...

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported, in part, by the US Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR) under Grant #FA9550-06-1-0364.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, School of Engineering, The University of Vermont, 301 Votey Hall, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Michael Cross & W. J. Varhue

  2. Mechanical Engineering Program, School of Engineering, The University of Vermont, 301 Votey Hall, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Darren L. Hitt

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  1. VU Station B 351592, Vanderbilt University Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Dongqing Li

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Cross, M., Varhue, W.J., Hitt, D.L. (2014). Fabrication of Self-Assembled Catalytic Nanostructures. In: Li, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27758-0_521-2

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