Multi-Functionalization of Nanoporous Catalytic Materials to Enhance Reaction Yield: Statistical Mechanical Modeling for Conversion Reactions with Restricted Diffusive Transport

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Ackerman, David
Gordon, Mark
Slowing, Igor
Kobayashi, Takeshi
Pruski, Marek
Evans, James
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Multi-functionalization of catalytically-active nanomaterials provides a valuable tool for enhancing reaction yield by shifting reaction equilibrium, and potentially also by adjusting reaction-diffusion kinetics. For example, multi-functionalization of mesoporous silica to make the interior pore surface hydrophobic can enhance yield in dehydration reactions. Detailed molecular-level modeling to describe the pore environment, as well as the reaction and diffusion kinetics is challenging, although we briefly discuss current strategies. Our focus, however, is on coarse-grained stochastic modeling of the overall catalytic process for highly restricted transport within narrow pores (with single-file diffusion), while accounting for a tunable interaction of the pore interior with reaction products. We show that making the pore interior unfavorable to products can significantly enhance yield due to both thermodynamic and kinetics factors.

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This article is from MRS Proceedings 1641 (2014): 6 pp., doi:10.1557/opl.2014.321 . Posted with permission.

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