Promotional effect of carbon on Fe catalysts for ammonia decomposition: A density functional theory study

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 17151-17155

  Ji, Jian ^a   Duan, Xuezhi ^a   Gong, Xueqing ^a   Qian, Gang ^a   Zhou, Xinggui ^a   Chen, De ^b   Yuan, Weikang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA DECOMPOSITION; CARBON ATOMS; D-BAND CENTERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDIES; ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; PROMOTIONAL EFFECT; RECOMBINATIVE DESORPTION; STEPPED SURFACES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATOMS; CATALYSTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESORPTION;

CARBON;

EID: 84889810775     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie4030165     Document Type: Article

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