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Advanced Catalytic Materials: Current Status and Future Progress

  • Describes computational methods, experimental synthesis and advanced characterization for novel catalytic materials
  • Examines catalytic materials and corresponding engineering applications with a focus on low contaminant fuel production and derivatives
  • Covers the application of computer assisted quantum mechanical for fundamental understanding of electronic structure of molecular dimension catalytic materials

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. One Brief Introduction to Catalytic Materials

    • Russell R. Chianelli
    Pages 1-12
  3. Synthesis of Novel Catalytic Materials: Titania Nanotubes and Transition Metal Carbides, Nitrides, and Sulfides

    • Davi Coelho de Carvalho, Josue Mendes Filho, Odair Pastor Ferreira, Alcineia Conceição Oliveira, Elisabete Moreira Assaf, Yanet Villasana
    Pages 13-40
  4. Theoretical Insights into the Electronic Structure and Catalytic Activity on MoS2-Based Catalyst

    • Xiaodong Wen, Tao Yang, Manuel Ramos, Gabriel A. Gonzalez, Russell R. Chianelli
    Pages 41-59
  5. Catalytic Materials for Hydrodesulfurization Processes, Experimental Strategies to Improve Their Performance

    • Jorge Ramírez, Perla Castillo-Villalón, Aída Gutiérrez-Alejandre, Rogelio Cuevas, Aline Villarreal
    Pages 61-96
  6. In Situ Upgrading via Hot Fluid and Nanocatalyst Injection

    • Carlos E. Scott, Lante Carbognani-Ortega, Pedro Pereira-Almao
    Pages 129-149
  7. Porosity and Fractality of MoS2 and MoS2/Co-catalytic Spheres

    • Félix Galindo-Hernández, Ilke Arslan, José Manuel Domínguez, Manuel Ramos
    Pages 151-166
  8. Effective Visible Light Photodegradation of Paraoxon with Pure and Doped TiO2

    • A. K. P. D. Savio, J. Fletcher, K. Smith, R. Iyer, J. Bao, F. C. Robles Hernández
    Pages 191-207
  9. Ternary-Phase NiMoWS2 Catalytic Material for Hydrodesulfurization

    • Brenda Torres, Lorena Alvarez-Contreras, Daniel Bahena-Uribe, Russell R. Chianelli, Manuel Ramos
    Pages 209-216
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-223

About this book

This book presents advances in computational methods, experimental synthesis, and advanced characterizations for novel catalytic materials. The authors show how catalytical materials can be used for various engineering oil & gas applications – mainly in low contaminants fuel production. All contributors, describe in detail novel experimental and theoretical techniques techniques and concepts for synthesis, evaluation and scaling catalytic materials and research advances in evaluation, extensive characterization and theoretical modeling using computer assisted methods and algorithms.


  • Describes computational methods, experimental synthesis and advanced characterization for novel catalytic materials;
  • Examines catalytic materials and corresponding engineering applications with a focus on low contaminant fuel production and derivatives;
  • Covers the application of computer assisted quantum mechanical for fundamental understanding of electronicstructure of molecular dimension catalytic materials.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dirección de Investigación, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico

    José Manuel Domínguez-Esquivel

  • Departamento de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua-México, Mexico

    Manuel Ramos

About the editors

Prof. Dr. José Manuel Domínguez-Esquivel is a senior researcher in the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) in México City. His 30 years of expertise in catalytic materials comprehends novel aspects of catalysis and catalysts, such as synthesis, evaluation, characterization and theoretical modeling. He has been a productive contributor for diverse peer-review Journal of Citation Report journals, and authoring of more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts in the field of catalysis, physical-chemistry, metallic nanoparticles and material science. He obtained his doctoral degree with honors from Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. He is ranked in senior level-III category of Mexican National Researcher System of Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT-México). He has contributed in the co-organization of scientific symposia for catalytic materials in the framework of International Materials Research Congress which is a joint meeting between Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales (SMM) and Materials Research Society (MRS) since 2008. He currently resides at Mexico City.

Prof. Dr. Manuel Ramos is a research professor at The Departamento de Física y Matemáticas at Universidad Autóonoma de Ciudad Juárez, which is a large urbanborder town area between USA and México. In 2010, obtained a doctoral degree from University of Texas at El Paso in Materials Science and Engineering; he has been a visiting scientist scholar at Center for the Integration of Nanotechnologies at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. His research expertise is focused on theoretical and experimental studies of heterogeneous catalytic materials, nanoparticles and two-dimensional layered nanostructures using a combination of computer-assisted simulations and extensive electron microscopy characterization including in-situ operando techniques and recently atom probe tomography. Has co-authored about 45 JCR peer-reviewed manuscripts in the literature and several conference presentations in Puerto Rico, USA, Brazil, Canada, México, France and Germany. And has contributed in the co-organization of scientific symposia for catalytic materials in the framework of International Materials Research Congress which is a joint meeting between Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales and Materials Research Society since year 2014. He is ranked as level-I on Mexican National Researcher System of Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT-México).

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