Nanolithographic Fabrication and Heterogeneous Reaction Studies ofTwo-Dimensional Platinum Model Catalyst Systems

Thesis/Dissertation · Sat May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/886081· OSTI ID:886081

Contreras, Anthony Marshall ^[1]

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1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

In order to better understand the fundamental components that govern catalytic activity, two-dimensional model platinum nanocatalyst arrays have been designed and fabricated. These catalysts arrays are meant to model the interplay of the metal and support important to industrial heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Photolithography and sub-lithographic techniques such as electron beam lithography, size reduction lithography and nanoimprint lithography have been employed to create these platinum nanoarrays. Both in-situ and ex-situ surface science techniques and catalytic reaction measurements were used to correlate the structural parameters of the system to catalytic activity.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 886081
• Report Number(s): LBNL-60174; R&D Project: 517201; BnR: KC0302010; TRN: US200616%%916
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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