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CHEMSUSCHEM EDITORIAL DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201400163
A New Era of Catalysis: Efficiency, Value, and Sustainability Soofin Cheng*[a] and Shawn D. Lin*[b]
Catalysis is recognized to be one of the key technologies in enabling the sustainability of chemical processes. Examples of catalysis for efficient use of resources and energies include naphtha cracking, catalytic converters in automobiles, and many new synthesis routes for chemicals production reported in the past several decades. Although the shortage of carbon feedstocks from oil is relieved by shale developments in North [a] Prof. Dr. S. Cheng Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University 1 Roosevelt Road Sec.4, 106 Taipei (Taiwan) E-mail: [email protected] [b] Prof. Dr. S. D. Lin Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road Sec.4, 106 Taipei (Taiwan) E-mail: [email protected] Part of a Special Issue on “The 6th Asia–Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-6)”. To view the complete issue, visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cssc.v7.6/issuetoc.
2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
America, global warming and climate change urge the chemical industry to develop new processes, in which sustainability is a necessity and requirement. Catalyst development is facing the challenge of answering this need. This special issue contains papers selected from the 6th Asia–Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-6) held in Taipei, Taiwan in October 13–17, 2013. As the growth in chemical industry has shifted to Asia in the past 25 years, the themes of the conference focused on “New Era of Catalysis: Efficiency, Value, and Sustainability”, with important application topics such as biomass conversion, environmental catalysis, catalysis for new energies, fine chemical synthesis, photocatalysis, industrial catalysis & processing, membrane & separation, catalyst preparation and characterization, theory & modelling, and others. With 800 participants and ca. 200 papers presented from 20 countries, only selected papers that have passed the high-standard review criteria are presented in this issue. Material synthesis with good control in both structure and composition is a new challenge for efficient catalysts. With the ChemSusChem 2014, 7, 1493 – 1494
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Prof. Dr. Soofin Cheng completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M University (USA) in 1982, and then worked in the same Department as a post-doctoral fellow for three years. She joined the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University as a faculty member in 1985. She visited Colorado State University in 1997, where she worked on solid-state NMR. She served as the Head of Analytical Division, Instrumentation Center, College of Science, National Taiwan University during 2005–2011, and chaired the Center during 2008–2011. Her major research interest is the preparation of porous and composite materials for catalysis, photocatalysis, and electocatalysis.
Prof. Dr. Shawn D. Lin received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University (USA) in 1992. After a post-doctoral research position at the Fuel Science Program of Penn State University, he joined Yuan Ze University (Taiwan) in 1993 as a faculty member of the Department of Chemical Engineering. He moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2008. His research interests are mainly in supported metal catalysts, with recent interests in applications for hydrogen production, fuel cells, and chemical conversions using renewable resources.
help of material science, new reagents and new catalyst synthesis approaches open up new directions for catalysts design. Two papers include ionic liquids in their catalysts preparation. Composite materials containing CNTs and graphenes are explored for catalysis and supercapacitor uses. Photocatalysis is expected to utilize sunlight in driving chemical reactions. A Minireview by Yamashita and coworkers focuses on the design of photocatalysts using mesoporous SiO2 as substrate. Another Minireview by Colmenares discusses the preparation of photocatalysts by ultrasound-based methodologies and their applications in oxidation of organic contaminants. Carbon nitride materials with a two-dimensional texture and with boron and/or fluoride dopants are also reported as a new type of photocatalysts.
Bioresources are expected as the sustainable raw materials for energy and chemicals. Related papers include the conversion of cellulose to formic acid and latic acid, latic acid conversion into industrially valuable intermediate acrylic acid, and a new catalyst for biofuel (vanillin) using formic acid as the hydrogen transfer agent.
2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Keywords: catalysis · energy conversion · energy storage · renewable resources · sustainable chemistry
Received: April 28, 2014
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All of the articles in this issue have already appeared online on wileyonlinelibrary.com. See http://www.chemsuschem.org under Early View
CHEMSUSCHEM EDITORIAL DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201400163
A New Era of Catalysis: Efficiency, Value, and Sustainability Soofin Cheng*[a] and Shawn D. Lin*[b]
Catalysis is recognized to be one of the key technologies in enabling the sustainability of chemical processes. Examples of catalysis for efficient use of resources and energies include naphtha cracking, catalytic converters in automobiles, and many new synthesis routes for chemicals production reported in the past several decades. Although the shortage of carbon feedstocks from oil is relieved by shale developments in North [a] Prof. Dr. S. Cheng Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University 1 Roosevelt Road Sec.4, 106 Taipei (Taiwan) E-mail: [email protected] [b] Prof. Dr. S. D. Lin Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road Sec.4, 106 Taipei (Taiwan) E-mail: [email protected] Part of a Special Issue on “The 6th Asia–Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-6)”. To view the complete issue, visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cssc.v7.6/issuetoc.
2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
America, global warming and climate change urge the chemical industry to develop new processes, in which sustainability is a necessity and requirement. Catalyst development is facing the challenge of answering this need. This special issue contains papers selected from the 6th Asia–Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-6) held in Taipei, Taiwan in October 13–17, 2013. As the growth in chemical industry has shifted to Asia in the past 25 years, the themes of the conference focused on “New Era of Catalysis: Efficiency, Value, and Sustainability”, with important application topics such as biomass conversion, environmental catalysis, catalysis for new energies, fine chemical synthesis, photocatalysis, industrial catalysis & processing, membrane & separation, catalyst preparation and characterization, theory & modelling, and others. With 800 participants and ca. 200 papers presented from 20 countries, only selected papers that have passed the high-standard review criteria are presented in this issue. Material synthesis with good control in both structure and composition is a new challenge for efficient catalysts. With the ChemSusChem 2014, 7, 1493 – 1494
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CHEMSUSCHEM EDITORIAL
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Prof. Dr. Soofin Cheng completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Texas A&M University (USA) in 1982, and then worked in the same Department as a post-doctoral fellow for three years. She joined the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University as a faculty member in 1985. She visited Colorado State University in 1997, where she worked on solid-state NMR. She served as the Head of Analytical Division, Instrumentation Center, College of Science, National Taiwan University during 2005–2011, and chaired the Center during 2008–2011. Her major research interest is the preparation of porous and composite materials for catalysis, photocatalysis, and electocatalysis.
Prof. Dr. Shawn D. Lin received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University (USA) in 1992. After a post-doctoral research position at the Fuel Science Program of Penn State University, he joined Yuan Ze University (Taiwan) in 1993 as a faculty member of the Department of Chemical Engineering. He moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2008. His research interests are mainly in supported metal catalysts, with recent interests in applications for hydrogen production, fuel cells, and chemical conversions using renewable resources.
help of material science, new reagents and new catalyst synthesis approaches open up new directions for catalysts design. Two papers include ionic liquids in their catalysts preparation. Composite materials containing CNTs and graphenes are explored for catalysis and supercapacitor uses. Photocatalysis is expected to utilize sunlight in driving chemical reactions. A Minireview by Yamashita and coworkers focuses on the design of photocatalysts using mesoporous SiO2 as substrate. Another Minireview by Colmenares discusses the preparation of photocatalysts by ultrasound-based methodologies and their applications in oxidation of organic contaminants. Carbon nitride materials with a two-dimensional texture and with boron and/or fluoride dopants are also reported as a new type of photocatalysts.
Bioresources are expected as the sustainable raw materials for energy and chemicals. Related papers include the conversion of cellulose to formic acid and latic acid, latic acid conversion into industrially valuable intermediate acrylic acid, and a new catalyst for biofuel (vanillin) using formic acid as the hydrogen transfer agent.
2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Keywords: catalysis · energy conversion · energy storage · renewable resources · sustainable chemistry
Received: April 28, 2014
ChemSusChem 2014, 7, 1493 – 1494
1494
