This document discusses the potential applications and benefits of nanocatalysts. It describes how nanocatalysts can improve economy, minimize chemical waste, enable safer catalysis with less reactive agents, optimize feedstock utilization, aid in waste water treatment, and reduce global warming through increased energy efficiency. The document also notes that nanocatalysts could have applications in 12 million diesel engines as well as fluid cracking and hydro-cracking processes in the petrochemical industry.

1. Introduction
Nano catalysis
Improved
Economy
Minimum
Chemical
waste
Safer
Catalysis
And reagents
Optimum
Feedstock
Utilization
Waste
Water
treatment
Reduced
Global
warming
Energy
Efficiency
The nanocatalyst will have
applications in the estimated
12 million diesel engines in
use today for the farm,
industrial, airport service,
construction, mining, railway,
logging, recreational, and
light commercial sectors. In
the petrochemical industry,
the Nano catalyst will have
applications in fluid cracking
and hydro-cracking processes
In the era of nanoscience
where all the devices
and technologies are
going to smaller and
smaller in size with
improved properties;
catalysis is an important
field of application.
Nanomaterials are those
which have structured
components
with at least one
dimension less than 100
nm. Materials that
have one dimension in the
nanoscale (and are
extended in the
other two dimensions) are
layers, such as a thin films
or surface
coatings. Some of the
features of computer chips
come in this
category.
ZnO nanorods on Au and Nio catalyst
applications