Valery Buhtiyarov

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21.02.2025

2025

Catalytic Materials (Systems) for Future Technologies

Technological leadership of the Russian Federation in the field of industrial catalysts is obvious without effective interaction between science (especially if we are talking about the development of new catalysts and new technologies) and business, which will use these developments and bring them to production, must be effectively organized,

20.02.2025

2025

New Methods of Materials Research and Megascience Complexes

There are various approaches to this field. I will illustrate two bold examples. One concerns catalysts – specifically, silver catalysts for the epoxidation of ethylene into ethylene oxide. These were invented as early as the late 19th century and were reliably used throughout the 20th century. However, at an American ethylene oxide plant, it was discovered that production selectivity varied significantly between shifts – ranging from 50–70% during some shifts to just 30–40% during others. The discrepancy arose because workers were frequently checking product quality at a synchrotron. At the beginning of the last century, despite the emergence of diffraction methods, technological breakthroughs were still achieved in unexpected ways. Consider a chlorine production plant, where researchers discovered – serendipitously – that chlorine was an excellent promoter for a particular process. This discovery led to the targeted addition of chlorine. Another classic example comes from polymerization catalysis in Germany. One morning, during ethylene polymerization, researchers noticed that the reaction rate had increased. Upon investigation, it was revealed that a laboratory assistant had failed to clean the equipment from organometallic residues the previous day. She was dismissed, but the discovery led to a Nobel Prize – metallocene catalysts began to be used as co-catalysts

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