Bimetallic sites for catalysis: from binuclear metal sites to bimetallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

Ensemble effect for single-atom, small cluster and nanoparticle catalysts

Y Guo, M Wang, Q Zhu, D **ao, D Ma - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
A large family of heterogeneous catalytic reactions require active sites with more than one
metal atom, that is, an ensemble of metal atoms. The ensemble requirement, which refers to …

Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

Why do Single‐Atom Alloys Catalysts Outperform both Single‐Atom Catalysts and Nanocatalysts on MXene?

S Guan, Z Yuan, Z Zhuang, H Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Single‐atom alloys (SAAs), combining the advantages of single‐atom and
nanoparticles (NPs), play an extremely significant role in the field of heterogeneous …

Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia on defective Au1Cu (111) single-atom alloys

Y Zhang, X Chen, W Wang, L Yin… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate (NO 3–) to ammonia (NH 3) in wastewater is a promising
economic process for NH 3 synthesis. This work designed and prepared Au 1 Cu (111) …

Reconstruction of Highly Dense Cu−N4 Active Sites in Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Characterized by Operando Synchrotron Radiation

G **ng, M Tong, P Yu, L Wang, G Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging star of single atomic site (SAS) catalyst has been regarded as the most
promising Pt‐substituted electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in anion …

Highly-efficient RuNi single-atom alloy catalysts toward chemoselective hydrogenation of nitroarenes

W Liu, H Feng, Y Yang, Y Niu, L Wang, P Yin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The design and exploitation of high-performance catalysts have gained considerable
attention in selective hydrogenation reactions, but remain a huge challenge. Herein, we …

Laser-assisted high-performance PtRu alloy for pH-universal hydrogen evolution

B Pang, X Liu, T Liu, T Chen, X Shen… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Elucidating the interaction between different atomic species of bimetallic nanoparticles
under reaction conditions is the key to the design of efficient catalysts. Here, we report a …

Converting nanotoxicity data to information using artificial intelligence and simulation

X Yan, T Yue, DA Winkler, Y Yin, H Zhu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Decades of nanotoxicology research have generated extensive and diverse data sets.
However, data is not equal to information. The question is how to extract critical information …

Factors Influencing the Performance of Copper-Bearing Catalysts in the CO2 Reduction System

Z Sun, Y Hu, D Zhou, M Sun, S Wang… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the face of the increasingly serious greenhouse effect and climate warming, carbon
dioxide reduction (CO2RR) technology, which can produce valuable chemicals and fuels …