Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis

Preface
1 Setting the Scene
1.1 Prologue: Advances since the Early 1990s.
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Perspectives in Catalysis: Past, Present, Future
1.4 Definition of Catalytic Activity
1.5 Key Advances in Recent Theoretical Treatments: Universability in Heterogeneous Catalysis
1.6 Milestones Reached in Industrial Catalysis in the 20th Century, and Some Consequential Challenges
2 The Fundamentals of Adsorption: Structural and Dynamical Considerations, Isotherms, and Energetics
2.1 Catalysis Must Always be Preceded by Adsorption
2.2 The Surfaces of Clean Solids are Sometimes Reconstructed
2.3 There are Many Well-Defined Kinds of Ordered Adlayers
2.4 Adsorption Isotherms and Isobars
2.5 Dynamical Considerations
2.6 Relating the Activation Energy to the Energy of Chemisorption. Universality in Heterogeneous Catalysis and the BrØnsted-Evans-Polanyi (BEP) Relation.
2.7 Deriving Adsorption Isotherms from Kinetic Principles
2.8 Energetics of Adsorption
2.9 Mobility at Surfaces
2.10 Kinetics of Surface Reactions
2.11 Autocatalytic, Oscillatory, and Complex Heterogeneous Reactions
2.12 Microkinetics: A Summary
3 The Characterization of Industrial and Model Solid Catalysts
3.1 Non-Invasive Methods Suitable for Studies Involving Catalytic Reactors
3.2 A Portfolio of Modern Methods: Introducing the Acronyms
3.3 Which Elements and Which Phases are Present?
3.4 Probing Surfaces with IR, HREELS, AES and XPS
3.5 Ultraviolet-Visible and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
3.6 The Structure and Crystallography of Surfaces: Nature of Ordered and Reconstructed Surfaces
3.7 Other Structural Techniques for Characterizing Bulk and Surfaces of
Catalysts
3.8 A Miscellany of Other Procedures
3.9 Determining the Strength of Surface Bonds: Thermal and Other Temperature-Programmed Methods
3.10 Reflections on the Current Scene Pertaining In Situ Methods of Studying Catalysts
4 Porous Catalysts: Their Nature and Importance
4.1 Definitions and Introduction
4.2

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, FRS, FREng, Former Head of Physical Chemistry , University of Cambridge, is one of the most renowned researcher in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and solid state chemistry. He has been awarded the Davy Medal, the Messel Gold Medal, the Willard Gibbs Gold Medal, U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the Linus Pauling Gold Medal and many others. He is the author of over a thousand research papers on the materials and surface chemistry of solids, and over 100 review articles on science, education and cultural issues and the co-author of 30 patents.
 
W. John Thomas, FR Eng, is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath.