C–H bond activation in light alkanes: a theoretical perspective

Y Wang, P Hu, J Yang, YA Zhu, D Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Alkanes are the major constituents of natural gas and crude oil, the feedstocks for the
chemical industry. The efficient and selective activation of C–H bonds can convert abundant …

Rational design of catalysts with earth‐abundant elements

G Xu, C Cai, W Zhao, Y Liu… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Catalysis has played a crucial role in energy sustainability, environment control, and
chemical production, while the design of high‐performance catalysts is a key scientific …

Detailed microkinetics for the oxidation of exhaust gas emissions through automated mechanism generation

B Kreitz, P Lott, J Bae, K Blondal, S Angeli… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Emissions from vehicles contain a variety of pollutants that must be either oxidized or
reduced efficiently in the catalytic converter. Improvements to the catalyst require knowledge …

Structure-and temperature-dependence of Pt-catalyzed ammonia oxidation rates and selectivities

H Ma, WF Schneider - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ammonia oxidation is operated at different temperatures over Pt catalysts of different
structures to recover different products. In this work, we elucidate the dependency of …

Partial oxidation of methane to syngas via formate intermediate found for a ruthenium–rhenium bimetallic catalyst

L Li, NH MD Dostagir, A Shrotri, A Fukuoka… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Partial oxidation of methane (POM) is a potential technology to increase the efficiency of
synthesizing a mixture of CO and H2 called syngas, in comparison to steam reforming …

Plasma-catalytic partial oxidation of methane on Pt (111): a microkinetic study on the role of different plasma species

B Loenders, Y Engelmann… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We use microkinetic modeling to examine the potential of plasma-catalytic partial oxidation
(POX) of CH4 as a promising new approach to produce oxygenates. We study how different …

Platinum‐Catalysed Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Methane to Formaldehyde in the Presence of Liquid Water

SVL Mahlaba, N Hytoolakhan Lal Mahomed… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The aerobic, selective oxidation of methane to C1‐oxygenates remains a challenge, due to
the more facile, consecutive oxidation of formed products to CO2. Here, we report on the …

Microkinetic modeling of propene combustion on a stepped, metallic palladium surface and the importance of oxygen coverage

V Streibel, HA Aljama, AC Yang, TS Choksi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Better emission control of internal combustion engines can be achieved by more efficient
catalytic hydrocarbon combustion at low temperatures. For a knowledge-based design of …

Amorphous Surface PdOX and Its Activity toward Methane Combustion

RJ Bunting, X Cheng, J Thompson, P Hu - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Palladium oxide surface structures with different oxygen stoichiometries, that were searched
for by particle swarm optimization, are investigated for their methane combustion activity …

Adsorption of Pd on the Cu (1 1 1) surface and its catalysis of methane partial oxidation: A density functional theory study

Y Meng, C Ding, X Gao, K Zhang, J Wang, Z Li - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The single atom alloy catalysts that Pd atoms alloy on Cu (1 1 1) surface has been
extensively researched for catalytic partial oxidation of methane (CH 4), however the current …