Cold plasma in the nanotechnology of catalysts

• Authors: Jacek Tyczkowski , Ryszard Kapica
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the paper the preparation of catalysts with the use of cold plasmas is discussed. A special attention is focused on nanocatalysts. In general, there are three main trends in this field: (1) plasma enhanced preparation of "classical" catalysts, (2) plasma sputtering of catalytically active compounds, especially metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, and (3) plasma-enhanced metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (PEMOCVD) of very thin metal and metal oxide films with specific nanostructure. It is shown that the cold plasma techniques are very effective methods for designing the nanocatalysts with distinct and tunable chemical activity, specificity and selectivity. Finally, our preliminary investigations concerning CoOX catalytic films fabricated by the PEMOCVD method are presented.

Keywords

EN

catalysis; nanostructures; cold plasma; metal-organic chemical vapor deposition; cobalt oxides thin films

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-42

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2007

online

3 - 7 - 2007

Contributors

author

Jacek Tyczkowski

• Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Lodz, 90-924 Lodz, Wolczanska 213, Poland

author

Ryszard Kapica

• Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Lodz, 90-924 Lodz, Wolczanska 213, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10026-007-0010-2