Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Functionalized nanoparticles: Tailoring properties through surface energetics and coordination chemistry for advanced biomedical applications

Y Kumar, ASK Sinha, KDP Nigam, D Dwivedi… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Significant advances in nanoparticle-related research have been made in the past decade,
and amelioration of properties is considered of utmost importance for improving nanoparticle …

Chemical and thermal sintering of supported metals with emphasis on cobalt catalysts during Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

M Rahmati, MS Safdari, TH Fletcher, MD Argyle… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This comprehensive critical review combines, for the first time, recent advances in nanoscale
surface chemistry, surface science, DFT, adsorption calorimetry, and in situ XRD and TEM to …

Area-selective deposition of ruthenium by area-dependent surface diffusion

F Grillo, J Soethoudt, EA Marques… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Area-selective deposition (ASD) enables the growth of materials on target regions of
patterned substrates for applications in fields ranging from microelectronics to catalysis …

Adatom and nanoparticle dynamics on single-atom catalyst substrates

M Farnesi Camellone, F Dvořák, M Vorokhta… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom catalysts represent an essential and ever-growing family of heterogeneous
catalysts. Recent studies indicate that besides the valuable catalytic properties provided by …

Resha**, intermixing, and coarsening for metallic nanocrystals: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanical and coarse-grained modeling

KC Lai, Y Han, P Spurgeon, W Huang, PA Thiel… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of supported 2D or 3D nanocrystals (NCs) by vacuum deposition and of 3D
NCs by solution-phase synthesis (with possible subsequent transfer to a support) produces …

Configurational energies of nanoparticles based on metal–metal coordination

LT Roling, L Li, F Abild-Pedersen - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle sintering remains a fundamental problem in heterogeneous catalysis,
motivating mechanistic studies toward mitigating deactivation of precious metal catalysts …

A coordination-based model for transition metal alloy nanoparticles

LT Roling, TS Choksi, F Abild-Pedersen - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a simple approach for predicting the relative energies of bimetallic nanoparticles
spanning a wide-ranging combinatorial space, using only the identity and nearest-neighbor …

Stability of PdxOy Particles Supported on Strontium Titanate Perovskite under Three-Way Catalyst Operating Conditions: Implications for Sintering Resistance

TN Pham, B Andrea Choi Tan, Y Hamamoto… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-regenerative materials are keys to the development of stable catalysts used under high
temperature condition, eg, three-way catalyst converters in automobiles. Among others …

Real-time dynamics and structures of supported subnanometer catalysts via multiscale simulations

Y Wang, J Kalscheur, YQ Su, EJM Hensen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the performance of subnanometer catalysts and how catalyst treatment and
exposure to spectroscopic probe molecules change the structure requires accurate structure …