Inclusive leadership development for engineers.

This article presents a standards-aligned, strategy-driven leadership development model for equipping engineering students with skills to appreciate differences in the workplace and to collaborate and lead inclusively.

H Oxidation over Supported Au Nanoparticle Catalysts: Evidence for Heterolytic H Activation at the Metal-Support Interface.

Water adsorbed at the metal-support interface (MSI) plays an important role in multiple reactions. Due to its importance in CO preferential oxidation (PrOx), we examined H oxidation kinetics in the presence of water over Au/TiO and Au/AlO catalysts, reaching the following mechanistic conclusions: (i) O activation follows a similar mechanism to that proposed in CO oxidation catalysis; (ii) weakly adsorbed HO is a strong reaction inhibitor; (iii) fast H activation occurs at the MSI, and (iv) H activation kinetics are inconsistent with traditional dissociative H chemisorption on metals. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using a supported Au nanorod model suggest H activation proceeds through a heterolytic dissociation mechanism, resulting in a formal hydride residing on the Au and a proton bound to a surface TiOH group.