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El miércoles 11 de marzo el Dr. Jean-Baptiste d'Espinose de Lacaillerie (ESPCI ParisTech) visitará FIQ e INCAPE, y brindará una conferencia.



Visita y conferencia de Investigador ESPCI ParisTech 

11/03/2015

El Dr. Jean-Baptiste d'Espinose de Lacaillerie (Associate Professor  ESPCI ParisTech, Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, Head of International Relations ESPCI ParisTech)  visitará la FIQ/UNL y el INCAPE/UNL/CONICET el miércoles 11 de marzo de 2015. Ese día dará una conferencia sobre "Ferromagnetic Nuclear Resonance of Co in Fischer-Tropsch catalysts". La misma se realizará a las 17h en el aula Leloir (Edificio Gollán, FIQ-UNL).

Abstract

Despite the fact that cobalt based catalysts are used at the industrial scale for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, it is not yet clear which cobalt metallic phase is actually at work under operando conditions and what is its state of dispersion. As it turns out, the different phases of metallic cobalt, fcc and hcp, give rise to distinct ferromagnetic nuclear magnetic resonance. Furthermore, within one Co metal particle, the occurrence of several ferromagnetic domains of limited sizes can be evidenced by the specific resonance of Co in multi-domain particles. Consequently, by ferromagnetic NMR, one can follow quantitatively the sintering and phase transitions of dispersed Co metal particles in supported catalysts near operando conditions. Here, in Co metal Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis catalysts supported on ¦Â-SiC, the resonances of the fcc domain walls, fcc domain and hcp Co in were clearly distinguished. A careful rationalization of their frequency and width dependence on temperature allowed a quantitative analysis of the spectra in the temperature range of interest, thus reflecting the state of the catalysts in near operando conditions, that is without the uncertainty associated with prior quenching. The allotropic transition temperature was found to start at 600-650K, which is about 50K below the bulk transition temperature. The phase transition was fully reversible and a significant part of the hcp phase was found to be stable up to 850K. This anomalous behavior that was observed without quenching might prove to be crucial to understand and model active species not only in catalysts but also in battery materials. We will also provide results concerning the characterization of CoFe catalysts for carbon nanotube synthesis.

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