Dilute alloys based on Au, Ag, or Cu for efficient catalysis: from synthesis to active sites

JD Lee, JB Miller, AV Shneidman, L Sun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of new catalyst materials for energy-efficient chemical synthesis is critical
as over 80% of industrial processes rely on catalysts, with many of the most energy-intensive …

Single atom catalysts: a review of characterization methods

M Kottwitz, Y Li, H Wang, AI Frenkel… - Chemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single atom catalysts (SACs) harbor a potential to exceed nanoparticle catalysts in terms of
activity, stability and selectivity in a growing number of chemical reactions. Although their …

Computational methods to simulate molten salt thermophysical properties

T Porter, MM Vaka, P Steenblik… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Molten salts are important thermal conductors used in molten salt reactors and solar
applications. To use molten salts safely, accurate knowledge of their thermophysical …

A holistic approach for elucidating local structure, dynamics, and speciation in molten salts with high structural disorder

S Roy, Y Liu, M Topsakal, E Dias… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To examine ion solvation, exchange, and speciation for minority components in molten salts
(MS) typically found as corrosion products, we propose a multimodal approach combining …

Boosting ORR performance by single atomic divacancy Zn–N3C–C8 sites on ultrathin N-doped carbon nanosheets

T Zhang, F Wang, C Yang, X Han, C Liang, Z Zhang… - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) show great promise to improve the performance of catalysis
because of their spatially isolated single-atom sites with unique electronic properties …

A brief guide to the structure of high-temperature molten salts and key aspects making them different from their low-temperature relatives, the ionic liquids

S Sharma, AS Ivanov, CJ Margulis - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-temperature molten salt research is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance these
days due to the apparent advantage of these systems in areas related to clean and …

Solving the structure of “single-atom” catalysts using machine learning–assisted XANES analysis

S **ang, P Huang, J Li, Y Liu, N Marcella… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
“Single-atom” catalysts (SACs) have demonstrated excellent activity and selectivity in
challenging chemical transformations such as photocatalytic CO2 reduction. For …

Unraveling Local Structure of Molten Salts via X-ray Scattering, Raman Spectroscopy, and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

S Roy, M Brehm, S Sharma, F Wu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we resolve a long-standing issue concerning the local structure of molten
MgCl2 by employing a multimodal approach, including X-ray scattering and Raman …

Investigating corrosion behavior of Ni and Ni-20Cr in molten ZnCl2

SK Gill, J Sure, Y Wang, B Layne, L He, S Mahurin… - Corrosion …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Corrosion of Ni and Ni-20Cr in molten ZnCl 2 under argon atmosphere at 593 K
was investigated using cyclic polarization in combination with various electron microscopy …

Revealing local order via high energy EELS

JL Hart, AC Lang, Y Li, S Shahrezaei… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Short range order (SRO) is critical in determining the performance of many important
engineering materials. However, accurate characterization of SRO with high spatial …