Heterogeneous catalysts represent the backbone of many industrial processes and thus
have a considerable societal impact. The active sites of these heterogeneous catalysts are …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

How to efficiently activate and convert CO 2 through hydrogenation to value-added
chemicals is a major challenge. This work investigates the role of oxygen vacancy (Ov) in …

Visible-light-driven photochemistry has continued to attract heightened interest due to its
capacity to efficiently harvest solar energy and its potential to solve the global energy crisis …

Metal–support interactions (MSIs) have become one of the research directions of great
interest in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and are significant for the design of supported …

Magic-number gold nanoclusters are atomically precise nanomaterials that have enabled
unprecedented insight into structure–property relationships in nanoscience. Thiolates are …

As a much-enriched supplement to the previous review paper entitled the “Effective work
functions for ionic and electronic emissions from mono-and polycrystalline surfaces”[Prog …

The rational design of high-temperature endurable Cu-based catalysts is a long-sought goal
since they are suffering from significant sintering. Establishing a barrier on the metal surface …

Highly stable gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) functionalized by bidentate N-heterocyclic
carbene (NHC) ligands have been synthesized by top-down and bottom-up approaches. A …

1, 3, 5-Trimethylenebenzene (1, 3, 5-TMB), a 3-fold-symmetric triradical with a high-spin
ground state, is an attractive platform for investigating the unique spin properties of π …