The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis

C Vogt, BM Weckhuysen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Catalysis is at the core of chemistry and has been essential to make all the goods
surrounding us, including fuels, coatings, plastics and other functional materials. In the near …

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 …

Unlocking efficiency: minimizing energy loss in electrocatalysts for water splitting

W Li, Y Liu, A Azam, Y Liu, J Yang, D Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Catalysts play a crucial role in water electrolysis by reducing the energy barriers for
hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER). Research aims to enhance the …

Boosting photocatalytic upcycling of liquid biomass into biodiesel via microenvironment modulation

L He, LL Zhang, H Zhou, Y Nie, H Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The rational design of a photocatalyst and its microenvironmental modulation is crucial in
the heterogeneous photocatalysis process, yet relevant research on photocatalytic biodiesel …

Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane: catalytic and mechanistic aspects and future trends

S Najari, S Saeidi, P Concepcion… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ethene is a commodity chemical of great importance for manufacturing diverse consumer
products, whose synthesis via crude oil steam cracking is one of the most energy-intensive …

Tandem catalysis with double-shelled hollow spheres

J **ao, K Cheng, X **e, M Wang, S **ng, Y Liu… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Metal–zeolite composites with metal (oxide) and acid sites are promising catalysts for
integrating multiple reactions in tandem to produce a wide variety of wanted products …

Review of advances in bifunctional solid acid/base catalysts for sustainable biodiesel production

A Munyentwali, H Li, Q Yang - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodiesel has attracted significant attention as a potential renewable and environmentally
friendly substitute for petroleum-derived diesel fuel. Conventionally, commercial biodiesel is …

Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

Gradient hierarchically porous structure for rapid capillary-assisted catalysis

CT Hung, L Duan, T Zhao, L Liu, Y **a… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of hierarchically porous structures with uniform spatial gradient and structure
reinforcement effect still remains a great challenge. Herein, we report the synthesis of …

Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in 2020

C Kalha, NK Fernando, P Bhatt… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) is establishing itself as an essential
technique for the characterisation of materials. The number of specialised photoelectron …