Method of making confined nanocatalysts within mesoporous materials and uses thereof

US11406971B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Research Triangle Institute · US

Inventors

• Ignacio Luz Minguez · Durham, US
• Mustapha Soukri · Raleigh, US
• Marty Lail · Темневкий пруд, US
• John R. Carpenter · Savannah, US
• Sameer Parvathikar · Raleigh, US
• Michael W. Carpenter · Windom, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 9, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 26, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present disclosure provides methods of making confined nanocatalysts within mesoporous materials (MPMs). The methods utilize solid state growth of nanocrystalline metal organic frameworks (MOFs) followed by controlled transformation to generate nanocatalysts in situ within the mesoporous material. The disclosure also provides applications of the nanocatalysts to a wide variety of fields including, but not limited to, liquid organic hydrogen carriers, synthetic liquid fuel preparation, and nitrogen fixation.