Sixth Interactive Lecture TSUKUBA

For Scientific Exchange and Friendship….                          

ISAJ TSUKUBA CHAPTER 
Organizes an informal and interactive series of lectures

Please join us for Interactive Lecture 6

Topic – Topic – “Quasicrystals - Indian and Japanese contributions”

Speaker – Dr. Alok SINGH


Chief Researcher


Microstructure Design Group


Research Center for Strategic Materials/Structural Materials Unit


National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS)
Sengen, Tsukuba


E-mail: alok.singh@nims.go.jp



Venue - Ninomiya House, Assembly Hall, 1st Floor


November 27, 2011 (Saturday), 5:30 pm ~
 

For details contact:  Sunil Kaul
E-mail: s-kaul@aist.go.jp

Green house gas emissions from fossil fuels influence seriously to the earth, so-called global warming. Environmental concerns with legislation in 1970, catalytic converters have been introduced to detoxify the tailpipe emissions. In the first part of this lecture, the consequences and an introduction about automobile exhaust purification catalytic converters would be discussed. The fundamentals of catalytic conversion, in particular CO oxidation, of tailpipe emissions and the key role of basic components of catalytic converter would be explained in detail. The current scenario and the recent developments of catalytic converters towards automotive applications would also be discussed at the end.