Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (BIC)

The Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (BIC) is one of the world’s largest institutes working in this field (http: www.catalysis.ru) The institute carries out fundamental and applied studies practically in all field of catalysis: structural and mechanistic characterization, chemistry of catalyst preparation, kinetic studies of catalytic processes, development and commercialization of new industrial catalysts and processes, mathematical modeling of chemical reactors. Sophisticated instrumentation for in situ analytical control of catalyst state and reaction mixture composition, including instrumentation for adsorp-tion, kinetic, structural and spectral studies are available at the Institute. All this allows to obtain within short time intervals unique combination of data about composition of new materials, structure of active centers, detailed reaction kinetics and mechanisms. At present, the institute is actively involved in design of catalysts and development of catalytic processes for different branches of Hydrogen Energy including generation of syngas and hydrogen in compact reform-ers, hydrogen storage systems, cathodes and anodes for different types of fuel cells etc. The Insti-tute possesses an extensive range of physical research equipment. X-ray electron diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, vibrational and UV-VIS spectroscopies. IR spectroscopy at temperatures ranging from 196 to 700 °C, UV /VIS and Laser Raman spectros-copy. ESR, NMR, photoelectron and Auger spectroscopy, in combination with thermodesorption and LEED, EXAFS, Thermal gravimetry (TG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Trans-mission electron microscopy (TEM) and Transmission high resolution electron microscopy (HRTEM).