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Laura Prati is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and has a research focus primarily situated within materials science, engineering, and chemistry. Their contributions span multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's work concentrates on catalytic processes within materials science, with particular emphasis on catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, catalysis for biomass conversion, nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, advanced photocatalysis techniques, catalysis and oxidation reactions, and TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Laura Prati include Alberto Villa, M. Stucchi, Sofia Capelli, Stefano Cattaneo, and Ilaria Barlocco, reflecting sustained partnerships across numerous projects.

The researcher has published extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Catalysts
  • ChemCatChem
  • Catalysis Today
  • Nanomaterials
  • Journal of Catalysis

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura Prati are:

  • Influence of carbon support properties in the hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin as lignin model compound (2020) in Catalysis Today
  • New insights for the catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane to K-A oil (2022) in Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural on Supported Ag, Au, Pd and Bimetallic Pd-Au Catalysts: Effect of the Support (2021) in Catalysts
  • Enhancing activity, selectivity and stability of palladium catalysts in formic acid decomposition: Effect of support functionalization (2021) in Catalysis Today
  • Glycerol Oxidation over Supported Gold Catalysts: The Combined Effect of Au Particle Size and Basicity of Support (2020) in Processes

Best Publications

  • Gold on Carbon as a New Catalyst for Selective Liquid Phase Oxidation of Diols

    Laura Prati;Michele Rossi

  • Selective oxidation using gold

    Cristina Della Pina;Ermelinda Falletta;Laura Prati;Michele Rossi

  • Selective Oxidation of D-Glucose on Gold Catalyst

    Serena Biella;Laura Prati;Michele Rossi

  • Selective oxidation of glycerol to sodium glycerate with gold-on-carbon catalyst: an insight into reaction selectivity

    Francesca Porta;Laura Prati

  • Covalent Triazine Framework as Catalytic Support for Liquid Phase Reaction

    Carine E. Chan-Thaw;Alberto Villa;Phisan Katekomol;Dangsheng Su

  • Selective oxidation of glycerol with oxygen using mono and bimetallic catalysts based on Au, Pd and Pt metals

    Claudia L. Bianchi;Patrizia Canton;Nikolaos Dimitratos;Francesca Porta

  • Metal sols as a useful tool for heterogeneous gold catalyst preparation: reinvestigation of a liquid phase oxidation

    F Porta;L Prati;M Rossi;S Coluccia

  • Pd and Pt catalysts modified by alloying with Au in the selective oxidation of alcohols

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Alberto Villa;Di Wang;Francesca Porta

  • glycerol oxidation using gold-containing catalysts

    Alberto Villa;Nikolaos Dimitratos;Carine E. Chan-Thaw;Ceri Hammond

  • Selective Oxidation of Glycerol under Acidic Conditions Using Gold Catalysts

    Alberto Villa;Gabriel M. Veith;Laura Prati

  • Selective liquid phase oxidation using gold catalysts

    Claudia Bianchi;Francesca Porta;Laura Prati;Michele Rossi

  • New gold catalysts for liquid phase oxidation

    Laura Prati;Gianmario Martra

  • Bimetallic Gold/Palladium Catalysts: Correlation between Nanostructure and Synergistic Effects

    Di Wang;Alberto Villa;Francesca Porta;Laura Prati

  • Application of gold catalysts to selective liquid phase oxidation

    S Biella;G.L Castiglioni;C Fumagalli;L Prati

  • Pd‐modified Au on Carbon as an Effective and Durable Catalyst for the Direct Oxidation of HMF to 2,5‐Furandicarboxylic Acid

    Alberto Villa;Marco Schiavoni;Sebastiano Campisi;Gabriel M. Veith

  • Effect of particle size on monometallic and bimetallic (Au,Pd)/C on the liquid phase oxidation of glycerol

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;David Lennon;Francesca Porta

  • Au, Pd (mono and bimetallic) catalysts supported on graphite using the immobilisation method: Synthesis and catalytic testing for liquid phase oxidation of glycerol

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Francesca Porta;Laura Prati

  • Solvent free liquid phase oxidation of benzyl alcohol using Au supported catalysts prepared using a sol immobilization technique

    Nikolaos Dimitratos;Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;David John Morgan;Albert Frederick Carley

  • Single-phase bimetallic system for the selective oxidation of glycerol to glycerate

    Di Wang;Alberto Villa;Francesca Porta;Dang Sheng Su

  • Au-Pd/AC as catalysts for alcohol oxidation: Effect of reaction parameters on catalytic activity and selectivity

    Alberto Villa;Nikolina Janjic;Paolo Spontoni;Di Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Villa
Alberto Villa University of Milan
Di Wang
Di Wang Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nikolaos Dimitratos
Nikolaos Dimitratos University of Bologna
Gabriel M. Veith
Gabriel M. Veith Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dang Sheng Su
Dang Sheng Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ilenia Rossetti
Ilenia Rossetti University of Milan
Claudia L. Bianchi
Claudia L. Bianchi University of Milan
Gianguido Ramis
Gianguido Ramis University of Genoa
Graham J. Hutchings
Graham J. Hutchings Cardiff University
Maela Manzoli
Maela Manzoli University of Turin

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