Dr Louise Smith

2024

• Ni, F. et al. 2024. The direct synthesis of H2O2 and in situ oxidation of methane: An investigation into the role of the support. Catalysis Today 442, article number: 114910. (10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114910)
• Hutchings, G. J., Smith, L. R. and Sun, Z. 2024. A smart design of non-noble catalysts for sustainable propane dehydrogenation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition (10.1002/anie.202416080)
• Mugford, K., Smith, L. R., Douthwaite, M., Dummer, N. F., Willock, D. J., Hutchings, G. J. and Taylor, S. H. 2024. Investigating physicochemical properties of MgO catalysts for the gas phase conversion of glycerol. ARKIVOC 2024(3), article number: 202412252. (10.24820/ark.5550190.p012.252)
• Lawes, N. et al. 2024. CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on intermetallic PdGa and PdIn catalysts and the effect of Zn co-deposition. Applied Catalysis A: General 679, article number: 119735. (10.1016/j.apcata.2024.119735)
• Lawes, N. et al. 2024. Zn loading effects on the selectivity of PdZn catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Catalysis Letters 154(4), pp. 1603-1610. (10.1007/s10562-023-04437-5)

2023

• Ni, F., Richards, T., Smith, L., Morgan, D., Davies, T., Lewis, R. J. and Hutchings, G. J. 2023. Selective oxidation of methane to methanol via in situ H2O2 synthesis. ACS Organic & Inorganic Au 3(4), pp. 177-183. (10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00001)
• Lazaridou, A., Smith, L. R., Pattisson, S., Dummer, N. F., Smit, J. J., Johnston, P. and Hutchings, G. J. 2023. Recognizing the best catalyst for a reaction. Nature Reviews Chemistry (10.1038/s41570-023-00470-5)

2022

• Pattisson, S. et al. 2022. Lowering the operating temperature of gold acetylene hydrochlorination catalysts using oxidized carbon supports. ACS Catalysis 12, pp. 14086–14095. (10.1021/acscatal.2c04242)
• Tigwell, M. et al. 2022. Investigating catalytic properties which influence dehydration and oxidative dehydrogenation in aerobic glycerol oxidation over Pt/TiO2. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126(37), pp. 15651-15661. (10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03680)
• Smith, L. R., Douthwaite, M., Mugford, K., Dummer, N. F., Willock, D. J., Hutchings, G. J. and Taylor, S. H. 2022. Recent advances on the valorization of glycerol into alcohols. Energies 15(17), article number: e6250. (10.3390/en15176250)
• Bowker, M. et al. 2022. The critical role of βPdZn alloy in Pd/ZnO catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol. ACS Catalysis 12(9), pp. 5371-5379. (10.1021/acscatal.2c00552)

2021

• Sainna, M. et al. 2021. A combined periodic DFT and QM/MM approach to understand the radical mechanism of the catalytic production of methanol from glycerol. Faraday Discussions 229, pp. 108-130. (10.1039/D0FD00005A)
• Dawson, S. R. et al. 2021. Sulfur promotion in Au/C catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination. Small 17(16), article number: 2007221. (10.1002/smll.202007221)
• Smith, L. R. et al. 2021. Gas phase clycerol valorization over ceria nanostructures with well-defined morphologies. ACS Catalysis 11, pp. 4893-4907. (10.1021/acscatal.0c05606)

2020

• Aldridge, J. K. et al. 2020. Ambient temperature CO oxidation using palladium-platinum bimetallic catalysts supported on tin oxide/alumina. Catalysts 10(11), article number: 1223. (10.3390/catal10111223)
• Devlia, J., Smith, L., Douthwaite, M., Taylor, S. H., Willock, D. J., Hutchings, G. J. and Dummer, N. F. 2020. The formation of methanol from glycerol bio-waste over doped ceria based catalysts. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378(2176), article number: 20200059. (10.1098/rsta.2020.0059)
• Smith, L. R. 2020. Gas-phase conversions of glycerol to methanol over ceria-based catalysts. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2019

• Smith, P. J. et al. 2019. Investigating the Influence of Reaction Conditions and the Properties of Ceria for the Valorisation of Glycerol. Energies 12(7), article number: 1359. (10.3390/en12071359)
• Smith, L. R. et al. 2019. New insights for the valorisation of glycerol over MgO catalysts in the gas-phase. Catalysis Science and Technology 9, pp. 1464-1475., article number: 6. (10.1039/C8CY02214C)

2018

• Tian, M. et al. 2018. Catalytic oxidation of 1,2-dichloroethane over three-dimensional ordered meso-macroporous Co 3 O 4 /La 0.7 Sr 0.3 Fe 0.5 Co 0.5 O 3 : destruction route and mechanism. Applied Catalysis A: General 553(5), pp. 1-14. (10.1016/j.apcata.2018.01.013)