Thermo-photo catalysis: a whole greater than the sum of its parts

S Fang, YH Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermo-photo catalysis, which is the catalysis with the participation of both thermal and
photo energies, not only reduces the large energy consumption of thermal catalysis but also …

The sabatier principle in electrocatalysis: Basics, limitations, and extensions

H Ooka, J Huang, KS Exner - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Sabatier principle, which states that the binding energy between the catalyst and the
reactant should be neither too strong nor too weak, has been widely used as the key …

The significance of properly reporting turnover frequency in electrocatalysis research

S Anantharaj, PE Karthik, S Noda - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, turnover frequency (TOF) has served as an accurate descriptor of the intrinsic
activity of a catalyst, including those in electrocatalytic reactions involving both fuel …

The 2020 plasma catalysis roadmap

A Bogaerts, X Tu, JC Whitehead, G Centi… - Journal of physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such
as CO 2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, CH 4 activation into hydrogen …

Molecular ratchets and kinetic asymmetry: giving chemistry direction

S Borsley, DA Leigh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades ratchet mechanisms have transformed the understanding and
design of stochastic molecular systems—biological, chemical and physical—in a move away …

Dynamic evolution of the active center driven by hemilabile coordination in Cu/CeO2 single-atom catalyst

Z Chen, Z Liu, X Xu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Hemilability is an important concept in homogeneous catalysis where both the reactant
activation and the product formation can occur simultaneously through a reversible opening …

Plasma-driven catalysis: green ammonia synthesis with intermittent electricity

KHR Rouwenhorst, Y Engelmann, K van't Veer… - Green chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia is one of the most produced chemicals, mainly synthesized from fossil fuels for
fertilizer applications. Furthermore, ammonia may be one of the energy carriers of the future …

Progress in single/multi atoms and 2D‐nanomaterials for electro/photocatalytic nitrogen reduction: experimental, computational and machine leaning developments

AN Singh, R Anand, M Zafari, M Ha… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into ammonia (NH3), known as nitrogen
fixation, plays a crucial role in sustaining life on Earth, facing innovation with electrocatalytic …

Strategies to break linear scaling relationships

J Pérez-Ramírez, N López - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
The search for new catalytic materials has relied on highly time-and human-resource-
consuming procedures. The appearance of theoretical methods that employ density …

Structural transformations of solid electrocatalysts and photocatalysts

L Liu, A Corma - Nature reviews chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalysts often undergo structural transformations when they operate under
thermal reaction conditions. These transformations are reflected in their evolving catalytic …