Disclosed is a method for producing adipamide, which may include the steps of: (a) reacting glucose, nitric acid (HNO.sub.3), sodium nitrite (NaNO.sub.2) and potassium hydroxide (KOH) to produce a glucaric acid potassium salt, (b) producing glucamide by reacting the glutaric acid potassium salt, with an acidic solution and removing a potassium ion from the glucaric acid potassium salt, (c) preparing an reaction admixture by adding the glucamide and a catalyst to hydrogen halide and acetic acid, and (d) treating the reaction admixture with hydrogen gas in a reactor thereby producing the adipamide.

A process for preparing a catalyst includes impregnating a metal oxide carrier with an aqueous solution to form an impregnated carrier; drying the impregnated carrier to form a dried, impregnated carrier; and heat-treating the dried, impregnated carrier in air to form the catalyst; wherein: the aqueous solution includes a copper salt; and from about 3 wt % to about 15 wt % of a C.sub.3-C.sub.6 multifunctional carboxylic acid; and the catalyst includes from about 5 wt % to about 50 wt % copper oxide.

Disclosed herein, inter alia, are novel nickel-iron-magnesium oxide catalyst compositions and methods of making and using the same.

The present invention discloses a catalytic phase change dielectric sphere for methanol combustion and a preparation method therefor. The catalytic phase change dielectric sphere for methanol combustion is mainly prepared from a high-temperature phase change material, an active material, a carrier material, a catalyst, a nano-semiconductor material, a nano-transition metal and an adhesive. A catalytic phase change dielectric solid sphere is prepared with a mixed pressing and sintering process, the methanol energy conversion rate reaches 87.5%, the furnace temperature of methanol combustion reaches 900 C. or higher, and waste heat recovery is realized; or, a catalytic phase change dielectric microporous hollow sphere is prepared through electrostatic adsorption and in-site redox reaction, the methanol energy conversion rate reaches 99% or higher, the furnace temperature of methanol combustion reaches 1000 C. or higher, and waste heat recovery is realized.

This addition-curable silicone composition contains (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon groups in each molecule, (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane in an amount that provides a value of 0.5-5 for the ratio of the number of SiH groups to the total number of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon groups in the component (A), and (C) an effective amount of hydrosilylation catalyst microparticles that have a microcapsule structure containing a platinum-group metal catalyst-containing organic compound or polymer compound as a core material and a three-dimensional crosslinked polymer compound obtained by polymerizing at least one polyfunctional monomer as a wall material, the platinum-group metal catalyst-containing organic compound or polymer compound having a dynamic viscosity of 10-100,000 mm.sup.2/s at 25 C.

A plasmonic nanoparticle catalyst for producing hydrocarbon molecules by light irradiation, which comprises at least one plasmonic provider and at least one catalytic property provider, wherein the plasmonic provider and the catalytic property provider are in contact with each other or have distance less than 200 nm, and molecular composition of the hydrocarbon molecules produced by light irradiation is temperature-dependent. And a method for producing hydrocarbon molecules by light irradiation utilizing the plasmonic nanoparticle catalyst.

Apparatuses and methods for making uniform spherical beads are disclosed. Specifically, the uniform spherical beads are made by dropping droplets on a droplet rolling part, creating beads by rolling the droplets on the droplet rolling part from one spot to another spot, and collecting the beads by a beads collector.

The invention discloses a dinuclear rhodium complex-doped platinum/hollow mesoporous silica sphere composite material, and a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing hollow mesoporous silica by a selective etching technology, uniformly distributed a precious metal platinum in the channels of the hollow mesoporous silica by using simple impregnation, and mixing the obtained catalyst with dinuclear rhodium complex adsorbed silica gel to obtain the composite material integrating a chromogenic probe with the catalyst. The preparation method is simple, and the chromogenic performance of the dinuclear rhodium complex material and catalysis performance of the catalyst can achieve simultaneous detection and catalyst of CO; and the dinuclear rhodium complex has obvious response to CO, and has chromogenic change in the presence of 50 ppm CO, and the product prepared through the preparation method has excellent CO detection and treatment properties, and highly facilitates industrial application.

The invention has as its object a method for preparation of catalysts based on cobalt substrates, implementing a concatenation of stages for impregnation, drying and calcination under particular conditions. The invention also relates to the use of said catalysts in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis methods.

The present invention relates to a precursor of a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide, a method for preparing thereof, a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide, and a method for preparing thereof. An embodiment of the present invention provides a precursor of a hydrogenation catalyst of carbon dioxide comprising CuFeO.sub.2.