0 projects

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Heterogeneous nucleation of hydrate

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2004-2004

Location: Vestland

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Reaction mechanism elucidations in carbocation mediated hydrocarbon reactions over acidic zeolite type catalysts

This project supports the running cost for a commercial program package from Accelrys, specially designed for modeling heterogeneous catalysis and material science. In modern chemical research it is a prerequisite to combine the power of experimental kn owledge with insight obtained from a quan...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

The response of double layers on applied electric fields

In the last few years, new boundary conditions for the solution of the standard model beyond the double layer have been developed in the group in Leiden, where the project manager used to work. In this project we will first develop our own numerical code, to replace the commercially available cod...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Metal Clusters and Industrial Catalysis. Reactions of Hydrocarbons with Platinum and Ruthenium Clusters

Hensikten med prosjektet er å få bedre kunnskap og forståelse av elementære reaksjonstrinn på industrielle katalysatorer, især dehydrogenering av alkaner på klynger av innskuddsmetallatomer. Sammenheng mellom klyngestørrelse, fysikalske egenskaper og reak tivitet vil være av særlig interesse.

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Oslo

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Gas Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals

Natural gas has become an abundant hydrocarbon fuel and chemical feedstock and promises to remain so. Utilizing this resource with minimum environmental impact is a major challenge to Catalysis. Methane can be converted to fuels and chemicals in two ways, either via synthesis gas or directly to ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Time resolved characterization of DRUM impactor fine aerosol samples from Norway by LDI TOF MS, 14C AMS, S-XRF, and Beta-gauge attenuation

Urban areas in Norway experience high aerosol pollution levels every winter, and big concern is rising due to the health effect of the finest particular matter (

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Nature-inspired chemical process design. A start

We plan to study the optimal geometric structure of a catalyst bed in a reactor, using the human lung as an inspiration. An non-equilibrium study shall first be done to obtain molecular insights on the reaction in a confined space. .

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Resonance Raman and Infrared Marker Bands of Metallocorroles as a Probe of Molecular and Electronic Structure

1. To develop an extensive body of systematics on structure-frequency correlations for metallocorroles, similar to what is available today for porphyrins. 2. To appoint a postdoctoral associate, highly trained in Raman spectroscopy, and thereby further enhance our comptence in this area. 3. To pu...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Carbocation mediated hydrocarbon reactions over acidic zeolite type catalysts

This programme covers a concentrated effort from SINTEF and UiO to study reaction mechanisms influenced by structural and chemical effects using acid zeolite type materials. Investigations of the methanol to hydrocarbon reactions (MTH) will be a central part of the programme with focus on the elu...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2004

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Linear scaling quantum-chemical methods for large systems

The standard methods of computational quantum chemistry have been developed for small molecules and become prohibitively expen-sive for large systems. For quantum chemistry to make an impact on fields such as molecular biology and medicine, these methods must be reformulated in such a manner that...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Oslo

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Benchmarking modern quantum chemistry methods: Molecular magnetizabilities and rotational g tensors

The project will develop a coupled-cluster program for the calculation of molecular magnetizabilities and rotational g tensors. Gauge origin independence and fast basis set convergence will be achieved through the use of London atomic orbitals. Our goal i s to develop a code for calculation of ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2004

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

S-AFRIKA-Program for forskningsamarbeid med Sør- Afrika

Porphyrin-ferrocene Conjugates as Potential Anticancer Agents: Synthesis, electrochemistry, spectroscopyu, quantum chemistry, and biol. test

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Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Characterization of rheological, dynamical, structural and thermodynamic features in aqueous systems of amphiphilic polymers

In this project we address association phenomena that take place in systems containing amphiphilic polymers (consist of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts) and surfactants. To gain a fundamental insight into mechanisms that control polymer-surfactant interactions and the formation of associat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Anaya, A.S.M. Spania STP 02/03 og 03/04

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Metal Complex Catalysis in Conversion of Natural Gas to Value-Added Products

Today, Norwa's natural gas resources are mainly exported as is, with only a minor part being processed domestically into value-added products. This project is aimed at the development of economically and ecologically improved processes for converting natu ral gas into such products by use of meta...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KOSK-Katalyse og organisk syntetisk kjemi

Hydrogenation of CO with different CO/H2 ratios and in the presence of olefins. TILKNYTTET 154092/431

The short contact time reactor can be designed and optimized for producing synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons. However, in addition to synthesis gas high yields of olefins can also be obtained by partial oxidation of NGL (C2-C4) compounds at very short conta...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Numerical simulation of coalescence in oil/water emulsions

The main objective of the project is to determine the role of surfactant molecules in oil/water emulsions. The emulsions in consideration may be stable or unstable with respect to coalescence. The study will include a combination of MC and MD simulations, where the MC part will be used to design ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Antibacterial fluoroquinolone drug binding to DNA mediated by metal ions

Over the last decade the fluoroquinolones have become a dominant class of antibacterial agents. How these drugs kill bacteria remains unclear. A large amount of biological data has indicated that the functional target for the drug action is the enzyme DNA gyrase, however, models involving direct ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Vestland

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

The phase behaviour and dynamics of organic nanocrystals studied by NMR

About ten years ago scientists began to learn how mesoporous materials with controlled and uniform pore size could be tailor-made, the so-called M41S and FSM-16 materials. These materials possess regular hexagonal or cubic arrays of uniform channels betwe en approximately 16 and 100 <.zeta.> in d...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Vestland

F-KJEM-Naturvitenskap, kjemi

Fotoelektronspektroskopi og kjemisk reaktivitet for umettede organiske forbindelser

Moderne synkrotronstråling kombinert med avanserte elektronspektrometre har åpnet nye muligheter til å studere bindingsenergien til molekylenes indre elektroner. Den høye oppløsningen som kan oppnås ved slike synkrotronlaboratorier har dermed gjort det mu lig å oppnå ny informasjon om molekylets ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2007

Location: Vestland