Press Release 2010
Success in Development of Exhaust Gas Catalyst with Thermal Agglomeration Resistance 10x Higher than Conventional Materials: A Way to Minimize Rare-Metal Use| Research
An exhaust gas catalyst material, with approximately 10 times greater thermal agglomeration resistance than conventional materials, has been developed. This remarkable improvement opens the road to a large reduction in the amount of rare metals used in exhaust gas purification technologies.
Figure 1. Newly developed artificial "Metalic Cell". Automotive exhaust gas is sucked into the cell through the channel 1/1000mm in diameter opened in the cell wall, and discharged after purification.
Figure 2. Principle of Metallic Cell.
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Saikat Mandal1, Marappan Sathish4, Govindachetty Saravanan3, K. K. R. Datta1, Qingmin Ji1, Jonathan P. Hill 1,2, Hideki Abe3, Itaru Honma4, Katsuhiko Ariga 1,2
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- JST, CREST
- Advanced Electronic Materials Center, NIMS
- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
- Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)