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Symposium U of the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting, 'Materials for Catalysis in Energy', was held April 10-13.
List of contents
1. Hydrogen generation for 500 hours by photoelectrolysis of water using GaN W. Ohara, D. Uchida, T. Hayashi, M. Deura and K. Ohkawa; 2. Spray-deposited Co-Pt catalyzed BiVO4: a low-cost route towards highly efficient photoanodes Fatwa F. Abdi, Nienke Firet, Ali Dabirian and Roel van de Krol; 3. Artificial photosynthesis - use of a ferroelectric photocatalyst Steve Dunn and Matt Stock; 4. Copper tungstate (CuWO4)-based materials for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production Nicolas Gaillard, Yuancheng Chang, Artur Braun and Alexander DeAngelis; 5. Oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalytic activity of SAD-Pt/GLAD-Cr nanorods Wisam J. Khudhayer, Nancy Kariuki, Deborah J. Myers, Ali U. Shaikh and Tansel Karabacak; 6. Study of co-assembled conducting polymers for enhanced ethanol electro-oxidation reaction Le Q. Hoa, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Masato Saito and Eiichi Tamiya; 7. Preparation and characterization of platinum/ceria-based catalysts for methanol electro-oxidation in alkaline medium Christian L. Menéndez, Ana-Rita Mayol and Carlos R. Cabrera; 8. In situ spectroscopic characterization of some LaNi1-x Cox O3 perovskite catalysts active for CH4 reforming reactions Rosa Pereñiguez, Victor M. Gonzalez-Delacruz, Fatima Ternero, Juan P. Holgado and Alfonso Caballero; 9. Methane combustion using CeO2-CuO fiber catalysts Felipe A. Berutti, Raquel P. Reolon, Annelise K. Alves and Carlos P. Bergmann; 10. Role of surface oxide layer during CO2 reduction at copper electrodes Cheng-Chun Tsai, Joel Bugayong and Gregory L. Griffin; 11. Porous metal oxides as catalysts Boxun Hu, Christopher Brooks, Eric Kreidler and Steven L. Suib; 12. Role of Pt nanoparticles in photoreactions on TiO2 photoelectrodes Woo-Jin An, Wei-Ning Wang, Balavinayagam Ramalingam, Somik Mukherjee, Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki, Shubhra Gangopadhyay and Pratim Biswas; 13. Metal oxides as catalyst promoters for methanol oxidation Praveen Kolla, Kimberly Kerce, Hao Fong and Alevtina Smirnova; 14. Supported Ni catalyst made by electroless Ni-B plating for diesel autothermal reforming Zetao Xia, Liang Hong, Wei Wang and Zhaolin Liu; 15. Shape-controlled synthesis of silver and palladium nanocrystals using ß-cyclodextrin Gilles Berhault, Hafedh Kochkar and Abdelhamid Ghorbel.
Summary
Symposium U of the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting, 'Materials for Catalysis in Energy', was held April 10–13. Researchers were brought together to highlight recent progress and discuss challenges and opportunities in the materials aspect of catalysis research and development for energy applications.
