Dr. Miyako Hisamoto

miyako@engineering.ucsb.edu

Ph. D. Chemical Engineering 2008
University of California - Santa Barbara

B.S. Chemical Engineering 2001
University of Florida


 ESB 3125H
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
miyako@engineering.ucsb.edu

(805) 893-7403 (office)
(805) 893-8941 (lab)


Research Project
My research projects involves examining selected reactions between specific oxide supports (silica, silica-alumina, niobia) and gold precursors.  We are investigating novel ways to create gold nanoparticles via well defined chemisorption reactions with volatile precursors. The precursors to the supported gold catalysts are characterized using FT-IR, NMR, GC, GC/MS, and XAS.