G. Ertl, Fritz-Haber Institut der MPG, Germany, J. Knözinger, University of Munich, Germany and J. Weitkamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany

An indispensable reference providing comprehensive and essential information on the preparation of solid catalysts, which play a fundamental role in all areas between basic research and industrial applications. It discusses all types of solid catalysts and all important aspects of their preparation. The highly topical contributions are written by leading experts in disciplines ranging from solid state, interface and solution chemistry to industrial engineering. The straightforward presentation of the material and the wide-ranging coverage make this book invaluable for every scientist and engineer working with solid catalysts.

Coverage includes:

• Developing Industrial Catalysts
• Bulk Catalysts and Supports
• Supported Catalysts
• From the Precursor to the Final Catalyst
• Computer-aided Catalyst Design

• 1.Introduction
• 2. Developing Industrial Catalysts
• Properties and Characteristics of Industrial Catalysts
• The Ideal Catalyst and the Optimum Catalyst
• 3. Bulk Catalysts and Supports
• Fused Catalysts
• Skeletal Metal Catalysts
• Metallic Glasses
• Precipitation and Coprecipitation
• Sol-Gel Process
• Flame Hydrolysis
• Solid-State Reactions
• High-Surface Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides
• Carbons
• Heteropoly Compounds
• Hydrothermal Zeolite Synthesis
• Pillared Clays
• 4. Supported Catalysts
• Deposition of Active Component
• Supported Metal Cluster Catalysts
• Metal Clusters in Zeolites
• Zeolite-Entrapped Metal Complexes
• Supported Catalysts from Chemical Vapor Deposition and Related Techniques
• Preparation of Supported Catalysts by Deposition-Precipitation
• Solid Superacids
• Spreading and Wetting
• Redox Methods for Preparation of Bimetallic Catalysts
• 5. From the Precursor to the Final Catalyst
• Catalyst Forming
• 6. Computer-aided Catalyst Design
• Introduction
• Heuristics in Catalyst Design
• Deterministic Methods in Catalyst Design
• Chemical Reaction Engineering Aspects
• Conclusions