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David W. Knight is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Organic Chemistry, Education, and Biomedical Engineering.

David W. Knight has contributed to topics such as Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies, Catalysis for Biomass Conversion, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

Frequent co-authors of Knight include Stuart H. Taylor, Graham J. Hutchings, Mark Douthwaite, David J. Willock, and Christopher D. Evans.

Publications by Knight have appeared notably in venues including:

  • Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting
  • Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
  • Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent research papers feature the following works:

  • Enhancing the understanding of the glycerol to lactic acid reaction mechanism over AuPt/TiO2 under alkaline conditions, 2020, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Gas Phase Glycerol Valorization over Ceria Nanostructures with Well-Defined Morphologies, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • The Endurance Rocket Mission, 2022, Space Science Reviews
  • Controlled reduction of aromaticity of alkylated polyaromatic compounds by selective oxidation using H2WO4, H3PO4 and H2O2: a route for upgrading heavy oil fractions, 2021, New Journal of Chemistry
  • The conundrum of odourless Kahweofuran, a roasting "flavour" of coffee, 2020, Tetrahedron

Best Publications

  • Solvent-Free Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Aldehydes Using Au-Pd/TiO2 Catalysts

    Dan I. Enache;Jennifer K. Edwards;Philip Landon;Benjamin Solsona-Espriu

  • Solvent-Free Oxidation of Primary Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds in Toluene Using Au-Pd Alloy Nanoparticles

    Lokesh Kesavan;Ramchandra Tiruvalam;Mohd Hasbi Ab Rahim;Mohd Izham Saiman

  • Facile removal of stabilizer-ligands from supported gold nanoparticles

    Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;Nikolaos Dimitratos;Ceri Hammond;Gemma Louise Brett

  • Selective Oxidation of Glycerol by Highly Active Bimetallic Catalysts at Ambient Temperature under Base‐Free Conditions

    Gemma L. Brett;Qian He;Ceri Hammond;Peter J. Miedziak

  • Solvent-free Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Aldehydes using Supported Gold Catalysts

    Dan I. Enache;David W. Knight;Graham J. Hutchings

  • The benzaldehyde oxidation paradox explained by the interception of peroxy radical by benzyl alcohol

    Meenakshisundaram Sankar;Ewa Nowicka;Emma Carter;Damien M. Murphy

  • A simple, two-step synthesis of 3-iodoindoles

    Muhammad Amjad;David William Knight

  • Oxidation of glycerol using gold–palladium alloy-supported nanocrystals

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;Jinto Manjaly Anthonykutty;Gemma Louise Brett

  • Synthesis of glycerol carbonate from glycerol and urea with gold-based catalysts

    Ceri Hammond;Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;Mohd Hasbi Ab Rahim;Nikolaos Dimitratos

  • Efficient green methanol synthesis from glycerol

    Muhammad H. Haider;Muhammad H. Haider;Nicholas Frank Dummer;David William Knight;Robert Leyshon Jenkins

  • Oxidation of alcohols using supported gold and gold–palladium nanoparticles

    Sankar Meenakshisundaram;Ewa Nowicka;Peter John Miedziak;Gemma Louise Brett

  • Oxidation of benzyl alcohol using supported gold-palladium nanoparticles

    Peter John Miedziak;Qian He;Jennifer Kelly Edwards;Stuart Hamilton Taylor

  • Synthesis of Stable Ligand-free Gold–Palladium Nanoparticles Using a Simple Excess Anion Method

    Meenakshisundaram Sankar;Qian He;Moataz Morad;James Pritchard

  • Simple method to synthesize high surface area magnesium oxide and its use as a heterogeneous base catalyst

    Jonathan Keith Bartley;Chunli Xu;Rhys Lloyd;Dan I. Enache

  • Palladium nanoparticles in the catalysis of coupling reactions

    Ansuman Bej;Koena Ghosh;Koena Ghosh;Amitabha Sarkar;David. W. Knight

  • Selective formation of lactate by oxidation of 1,2-propanediol using gold palladium alloy supported nanocrystals

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;Sankar Meenakshisundaram;Jinto Manjaly Anthonykutty

  • Solvent-free oxidation of benzyl alcohol with oxygen using zeolite-supported Au and Au–Pd catalysts

    Gang Li;Gang Li;Dan I. Enache;Jennifer Edwards;Albert F. Carley

  • Rubidium- and caesium-doped silicotungstic acid catalysts supported on alumina for the catalytic dehydration of glycerol to acrolein

    Muhammad Haider;Nicholas Dummer;Dazhi Zhang;Peter John Miedziak

  • Enacyloxins Are Products of an Unusual Hybrid Modular Polyketide Synthase Encoded by a Cryptic Burkholderia ambifaria Genomic Island

    Eshwar Mahenthiralingam;Lijiang Song;Andrea Sass;Judith White

  • Solvent-free oxidation of benzyl alcohol using titania-supported gold–palladium catalysts: Effect of Au–Pd ratio on catalytic performance

    Dan Ion Enache;D. Barker;Jennifer Kelly Edwards;Stuart Hamilton Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham J. Hutchings
Graham J. Hutchings Cardiff University
Stuart Hamilton Taylor
Stuart Hamilton Taylor Cardiff University
Christopher J. Kiely
Christopher J. Kiely Lehigh University
Albert Frederick Carley
Albert Frederick Carley Cardiff University
Benson M. Kariuki
Benson M. Kariuki Cardiff University
Jennifer K. Edwards
Jennifer K. Edwards Cardiff University
Qian He
Qian He National University of Singapore
Donald Bethell
Donald Bethell University of Liverpool
David J. Morgan
David J. Morgan Cardiff University
Nikolaos Dimitratos
Nikolaos Dimitratos University of Bologna

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