This perspective highlights advances in the preparation and understanding of metal
nanoclusters stabilized by organic ligands with a focus on N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) …

The surface and interface coordination structures of heterogeneous metal catalysts are
crucial to their catalytic performance. However, the complicated surface and interface …

Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) offers a promising approach to close the
anthropogenic carbon cycle and store intermittent renewable energy in fuels or chemicals …

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have attracted intense interest in recent research and
hold promise in a vast range of applications. Because of the layered structure and diverse …

The development of facile tailoring approach to adjust the intrinsic activity and stability of
atomically-precise metal nanoclusters catalysts is of great interest but remians challenging …

Owing to the inherent instability caused by the low Cu (I)/Cu (0) half-cell reduction potential,
Cu (0)-containing copper nanoclusters are quite uncommon in comparison to their Ag and …

Natural enzymes intricately regulate substrate accessibility through specific amino acid
sequences and folded structures at their active sites. Achieving such precise control over the …

The catalytic activity and product selectivity of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction
(eCO2RR) depend strongly on the local microenvironment of mass diffusion at the …

Unraveling the atomistic synergistic effects of nanoalloys on the electrocatalytic CO2
reduction reaction (eCO2RR), especially in the presence of copper, is of paramount …

While atomically monodisperse nanostructured materials are highly desirable to unravel the
size-and structure-catalysis relationships, their controlled synthesis and the atomic-level …