Sponsored by Forge NanoFeb 17 2021
It is thought that one or more catalysts are involved in 95% of all commercially created chemical products at some stage in their manufacturing process. This has an estimated global economic impact of around $15 trillion each year.
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For plastics manufacturing, petroleum refining, food and biofuel production and numerous other core chemical manufacturing processes, heterogeneous catalysts are crucial. Thermal degradation or sintering of the active material leads to catalyst performance decreasing and deactivating over time, which is a huge cost driver for chemical manufacturing.
Catalyst deactivation associated with decreased product yields and higher energy usage associated with regenerating or replacing spent catalysts costs billions in lost revenue each year.
Sponsored by Forge NanoFeb 17 2021
A pathway for ALD-enhanced materials to be quickly developed and transitioned from lab-scale to commercial production is available for almost any application, for the first time ever. Atomic-level surface engineering on porous materials and powders has not been viable at high throughputs, until now.
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A well-defined development pathway from R&D-scale (milligram to kilogram samples) to commercial-scale production (thousands of tons per year and beyond) is now facilitating the power of sub-nano surface coatings and bulk material property control.
Over the past sixty years, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been employed to show surface property enhancement over hundreds of applications. Commercial ALD processes which rely on costly ultra-high purity precursors are available for wafer technologies in the semiconductor industry.