The Brønsted acidity of proton-exchanged zeolites has historically led to the most impactful
applications of these materials in heterogeneous catalysis, mainly in the fields of …

The chemical industry relies on catalytic processes, which involve mainly heterogeneous
catalysts because they offer many advantages over their homogeneous counterparts such …

Surface hydroxyl groups are active centers in many catalytic reactions and can play an
important role during catalyst preparation. In this chapter, the application of infrared …

The oligomerization of the light olefins ethene, propene, and butenes into fuels and
chemicals has been investigated and commercially practiced for many years. While the area …

Amorphous materials are widely used as components of solid catalysts and have been the
subject of much applied research. In some instances, their catalytic performance is …

α-Ga2O3, β-Ga2O3, and γ-Ga2O3 as well as the silica-supported catalysts γ-Ga2O3/SiO2, β-
Ga2O3/SiO2, and Ga (NO3) 3-derived Ga/SiO2 were prepared, characterized, and …

We present a way to improve the performance of the electronic structure Vienna Ab initio
Simulation Package (VASP) program. We show that high‐performance computers equipped …

In this contribution, realistic amorphous SiO2 models of 2.1× 2.1 nm with silanol densities
ranging 1.1–7.2 OH per nm2 are obtained by means of ab initio calculations via the …

Despite the widespread use of amorphous aluminosilicates (ASA) in various industrial
catalysts, the nature of the interface between silica and alumina and the atomic structure of …

Zeolites and amorphous silica-alumina (ASA), which both provide Brønsted acid sites
(BASs), are the most extensively used solid acid catalysts in the chemical industry. It is …