Room-Temperature Reactivity of Silicon Nanocrystals with Solvents: The Case of Ketone and Hydrogen Production from Secondary Alcohols: Catalysis?

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 13794-13800

  El Demellawi, Jehad K ^a   Holt, Christopher R ^a   Abou Hamad, Edy ^a   Al Talla, Zeyad A ^a   Saih, Youssef ^a   Chaieb, Sahraoui ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

alcohol dehydrogenation; heterogenous catalysis; hydrogen production; mass spectroscopy; NMR; silicon nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DEHYDROGENATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KETONES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; SOLVENTS;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENATION; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; HETEROGENOUS CATALYSIS; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; SECONDARY ALCOHOLS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON NANOPARTICLES;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84934784320     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01231     Document Type: Article

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