This disclosure describes enantiomerically enriched chiral molecular sieves and methods of making and using the same. In some embodiments, the molecular sieves are silicates or germanosilicates of STW topology.

Disclosed is a hybrid catalyst system for the production of hydrogen/carbon monoxide syngas. The hybrid catalyst system includes a dye, a rhenium (Re) catalyst, and a cobalt (Co) catalyst grafted on a semiconductor metal oxide. The hybrid catalyst system can produce syngas without the aid of external energy and enables control over the ratio of hydrogen/carbon monoxide formed. Therefore, the hybrid catalyst system can find application in various industrial fields, including chemical fuel production.

Disclosed herein are formed ceramic substrates comprising an oxide ceramic material, wherein the formed ceramic substrate comprises a low elemental alkali metal content, such as less than about 1000 ppm. Also disclosed are composite bodies comprising at least one catalyst and a formed ceramic substrate comprising an oxide ceramic material, wherein the composite body has a low elemental alkali metal content, such as less than about 1000 ppm, and methods for preparing the same.

The present invention provides a method for generating hydroxyl radical and removing organic pollutants in water by utilizing an organic membrane. The inventive method generates hydroxyl radical by adopting a nitrocellulose membrane as a photocatalytic material, placing the nitrocellulose membrane in water, illuminating with the sun or a sunlamp having a wavelength above 280 nm as a light source, and causing the nitrocellulose membrane to undergo a photochemical reaction at the membrane surface, and the generation rate of hydroxyl radical can be achieved by adjusting the surface area of the membrane and a light intensity. The generated hydroxyl radical can remove phenol, bisphenol A, thiamphenicol and other typical organic pollutants in water very well. Such method for generating hydroxyl radical is simple, economical and efficient, and does not need to introduce any hydroxyl radical precursor into the aqueous solution; and hydroxyl radical are generated on the surface of a solid phase membrane, bring no secondary pollution, and can be applied to sewage treatment and other fields.

A method for preparing a catalyst comprising (i) preparing a calcined shaped calcium aluminate catalyst support, (ii) treating the calcined shaped calcium aluminate support with water, and then drying the support, (iii) impregnating the dried support with a solution containing one or more metal compounds and drying the impregnated support, (iv) calcining the dried impregnated support, to form metal oxide on the surface of the support and (v) optionally repeating steps (ii), (iii) and (iv) on the metal oxide coated support. The method provides an eggshell catalyst in which the metal oxide is concentrated in an outer layer on the support.

Disclosed herein is a copper-supported zeolite containing a zeolite having a framework structure including silicon atoms, phosphorus atoms, and aluminum atoms, and copper supported on the zeolite, wherein the copper-supported zeolite satisfies (1) to (3): (1) an amount of copper (in terms of copper atoms) supported on the copper-supported zeolite is 1.5% by weight or more and 3.5% by weight or less, (2) the copper-supported zeolite has an UV-Vis-NIR absorption intensity ratio of less than 0.35 as determined by a formula (I) below: Intensity (22,000 cm.sup.?1)/Intensity (12,500 cm.sup.?1) . . . (I), and (3) a silicon atom content of the copper-supported zeolite satisfies a formula (II) below: 0.07?x?0.11 . . . . (II) where x represents a ratio of the number of moles of the silicon atoms to the total number of moles of the silicon atoms, the aluminum atoms, and the phosphorus atoms contained in the framework structure of the copper-supported zeolite.

Methods for electrocatalytic and thermocatalytic conversion of nitrate using PtxRuy/C catalysts are disclosed herein. The methods for electrocatalytic conversion of nitrate to ammonia can include contacting a nitrate containing source with an electrode comprising a PtxRuy/C catalyst while applying a potential sufficient to reduce nitrate to thereby convert nitrate present in the nitrate containing source to ammonia, wherein the PtxRuy/C catalyst comprises a carbon substrate having PtxRUy nanoparticles disposed thereon, and x is about 48 at % to about 90 at %, and y is 1x.

The present invention relates to a metal modified Y zeolite, its preparation and use. Said zeolite contains 1-15 wt % of IVB group metal as oxide and is characterized in that the ratio of the zeolite surface's IVB group metal content to the zeolite interior's IVB group metal content is not higher than 0.2; and/or the ratio of the distorted tetrahedral-coordinated framework aluminum to the tetrahedral-coordinated framework aluminum in the zeolite lattice structure is (0.1-0.8):1.

An alcohol production method in which an alcohol is produced from a carbonyl compound, the method including producing an alcohol by using a catalyst, the catalyst including a metal component including rhenium having an average valence of 4 or less and a carrier supporting the metal component, the carrier including zirconium oxide. A catalyst for producing an alcohol by hydrogenation of a carbonyl compound, the catalyst including a carrier including zirconium oxide and a metal component supported on the carrier, the metal component including rhenium having an average valence of 4 or less.

The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst including a base material 11 and a catalyst layer 20 provided on the base material 11. The catalyst layer 20 includes: a catalyst metal; and a carrying material 21 carrying the catalyst metal. The carrying material 21 includes: an OSC material 22 having an oxygen storage capacity; and a carrier 23 other than the OSC material. The OSC material 22 has a mean particle diameter Dx of 1.5 m or more which is larger than the mean particle diameter Dy of the carrier 23 other than the OSC material 22.