Roadmap for Societal Engagement for Higher Education Institutions

Publicación derivada del siguiente Proyecto Europeo: Higher Education Institution for Societal Engagement. HEISE. http://www.mapsi.eu/heise/Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a key role in educating young people to understand the underlying values in societies and cultures, which create crucial abilities to foster social integration. To succeed in this, the teachers and students of HEIs need novel ways to increase intercultural understanding and social inclusion. Hence, in the project we aim to create a comprehensive educational model grounded in experiential and challenge based learning to increase the higher education institutions’ societal engagement (HEISE).This study was co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union within the Strategic Partnership for Higher Education (grant no. 2016-1-EE01-KA203-017334; HEISE project)

Recommended reading list of early publications on atomic layer deposition-Outcome of the "Virtual Project on the History of ALD"

Atomic layer deposition (ALD), a gas-phase thin film deposition technique based on repeated, self-terminating gas-solid reactions, has become the method of choice in semiconductor manufacturing and many other technological areas for depositing thin conformal inorganic material layers for various applications. ALD has been discovered and developed independently, at least twice, under different names: atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and molecular layering. ALE, dating back to 1974 in Finland, has been commonly known as the origin of ALD, while work done since the 1960s in the Soviet Union under the name "molecular layering" (and sometimes other names) has remained much less known. The virtual project on the history of ALD (VPHA) is a volunteer-based effort with open participation, set up to make the early days of ALD more transparent. In VPHA, started in July 2013, the target is to list, read and comment on all early ALD academic and patent literature up to 1986. VPHA has resulted in two essays and several presentations at international conferences. This paper, based on a poster presentation at the 16th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition in Dublin, Ireland, 2016, presents a recommended reading list of early ALD publications, created collectively by the VPHA participants through voting. The list contains 22 publications from Finland, Japan, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and United States. Up to now, a balanced overview regarding the early history of ALD has been missing; the current list is an attempt to remedy this deficiency. (C) 2016 Author(s).Peer reviewe

Hydrodeoxygenation of Methyl Heptanoate over Noble Metal Catalysts: Catalyst Screening and Reaction Network

Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of methyl heptanoate was performed over zirconia-supported mono- and bimetallic Rh and Pt catalysts in a batch reactor. The Rh/ZrO₂ catalyst gave the highest conversion and selectivity toward hydrocarbons (dominantly hexane) at 250 °C and 8 MPa of H₂. The formation of alkenes was not detected due to high hydrogenation activity of the noble metal catalysts. Furthermore, a complete reaction network for the HDO of methyl heptanoate over Rh/ZrO₂ was proposed on the basis of the HDO experiments with reaction intermediates, such as heptanoic acid, heptanal, and heptanol. It was proposed that heptanoic acid originated from the direct hydrogenolysis of methyl heptanoate. The prevailing reaction pathway to hexane was suggested to be decarbonylation reaction from either heptanoic acid or heptanal. Heptanal was highly reactive on Rh catalyst in the presence of H₂. The effect of reaction temperature on the HDO of methyl heptanoate over Rh/ZrO₂ was also investigated. Increasing temperature significantly improved the conversion of methyl heptanoate and the selectivity toward hydrocarbons