Development of high performance vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) catalysts [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Alice Kyriopoulos

Development of high performancevinyl acetate monomer (VAM) catalystsVom Fachbereich Chemieder Technischen Universität Darmstadtzur Erlangung des akademischen Grades einesDoktor-Ingenieurs (Dr.-Ing.)genehmigteDissertationvorgelegt vonDipl.-Ing. Alice Kyriopoulosaus DarmstadtReferent: Prof.Dr.rer.nat.habil.Peter ClausKorreferent: Prof.Dr.rer.nat.habil.Markus BuschTag der Einreichung: 19. Oktober 2009Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 14. Dezember 2009Darmstadt 2009D17˜I322tAoa?njrwpoi(384u)e?d?naiBibl??r?go21]nt-aip.Q.f?sei.[Met>fusik?,Ariost980a,P?ntect?lhcoAcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to Prof.Dr.rer.nat.habil.Peter Claus (Ernst-Berl-Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Technische UniversitätDarmstadt) for his supervision during my Ph.D.studies at Darmstadt. His groupmembers are also kindly acknowledged for being generally helpful.Furthermore, I acknowledge Süd-Chemie AG for having provided the fundings andanalytical equipment, i.a.for wet chemical analysis, XRD and SEM-EDX during myresearchstudies. SpecialthanksgotoDr.AlfredHagemeyerforhissupportinscientificissues and all friendly colleagues.Thanks also to Dr.Stefan Lauterbach (Institute for Applied Geosciences, TechnischeUniversität Darmstadt) for his help to use EDX as a characterisation method.Grateful thanks to Dr.-Ing.Christina Roth and her group (Institute for MaterialsScience, Technische Universität Darmstadt) for their assistance in TEM.