Michel Boudart - Emeritus Professor

Office: Keck Science Building, Room 177
Phone: (650) 723-0385
FAX: (650) 725-7294
E-Mail: michel.boudart@stanford.edu

• Keck Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus

  Prof. Boudart is contributing to the advancement of chemical kinetics in catalytic science and technology. A founder of Catalytica, Inc., a company led by one of his Stanford Ph.D. students, he is interested in advising students on industrial career opportunities. He is the Director of the Industrial Affiliates Program in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA.
  

Recent Publications:

• Introductory Chapter and Chapter on Kinetics ("Rates of Catalytic Reactions") in the Handbook of Heterogenous Catalysis (Eds., G. Ertl, H. Knozinger, J. Weitkamp) VCH, Weinheim, in press.

• "Heterogeneous Molecular Catalysis: Oxymoron or Reality?" M. Boudart, Molecular Catalysis , in press.

Other Publications of Interest:

• Kinetics of Chemical Processes, M. Boudart, Prentice-Hall, 1968, reprinted by Butterworth-Heineman, 1991.

• "Pauling's Theory of Metals in Catalysis", M. Boudart, Am. Chem. Soc. 72, 1040 (1950).

• "Two-Step Catalytic Reactions", M. Boudart, AIChE Journal 18, 465 (1972).

• "Thermodynamics and Kinetics for Zero-Emission Catalytic Devices", M. Boudart, Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res. 33, 2900 (1994).

• "Turnover Rates in Heterogeneous Catalysis", M. Boudart, Chem. Revs. 95, 661 (1995).