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Nano-materials are important in many diverse areas including energy and environment. They have also emerged as sustainable alternatives to conventional heterogeneous catalysts. We have recently reported the synthesis of a new class of fibrous nano-silica (KCC-1) based materials.1 Such a fibrous morphology observed in these nanospheres has not been seen before in silica materials. The material exhibits excellent physical properties, including a high surface area, a good thermal, hydrothermal, and mechanical stability. KCC-1 was successfully used for various important catalytic reactions such as hydro-metathesis, hydrogenolysis, solid base catalyzed reactions, C-C coupling reactions and also in CO2 capture, with extraordinary activity and stability.2-6 In this talk, I will present synthesis and applications of this fibrous nano-silica (KCC-1).
References:
1. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9652-9656,
2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 2747-2751,
3. ChemSusChem, 2012, 5, 85-89,
4. ACS Catalysis 2012, 2, 1425-1431,
5. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2013, 1, 1192,
6. Chemical Science, 2012, 3, 2224-2229.
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