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 …

Designing sites in heterogeneous catalysis: are we reaching selectivities competitive with those of homogeneous catalysts?

F Zaera - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis, R Réocreux… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The complexity of heterogeneous catalysts means that a priori design of new catalytic
materials is difficult, but the well-defined nature of single-atom–alloy catalysts has made it …

Single-atom alloy catalysis

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-atom alloys (SAAs) play an increasingly significant role in the field of single-site
catalysis and are typically composed of catalytically active elements atomically dispersed in …

Recent progress in heterogeneous metal and metal oxide catalysts for direct dehydrogenation of ethane and propane

Y Dai, X Gao, Q Wang, X Wan, C Zhou… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic non-oxidative direct dehydrogenation of light alkanes serves as an effective
reinforcement to selectively produce the corresponding olefins, and the heterogeneous …

Activity and selectivity roadmap for C–N electro-coupling on MXenes

Y Jiao, H Li, Y Jiao, SZ Qiao - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical coupling between carbon and nitrogen species to generate high-value C–N
products, including urea, presents significant economic and environmental potentials for …

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 …

Theoretical insights into single-atom catalysts

L Li, X Chang, X Lin, ZJ Zhao, J Gong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with atomically dispersed metals have emerged as a new
class of heterogeneous catalysts and have attracted considerable interest because they …

Single-atom alloy catalysts: structural analysis, electronic properties and catalytic activities

T Zhang, AG Walsh, J Yu, P Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Monometallic catalysts, in particular those containing noble metals, are frequently used in
heterogeneous catalysis, but they are expensive, rare and the ability to tailor their structures …

Electrocatalyst microenvironment engineering for enhanced product selectivity in carbon dioxide and nitrogen reduction reactions

H Wu, A Singh-Morgan, K Qi, Z Zeng, V Mougel… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Carbon and nitrogen fixation strategies are regarded as alternative routes to produce
valuable chemicals used as energy carriers and fertilizers that are traditionally obtained from …