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 …

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 …

Ratcheting synthesis

S Borsley, JM Gallagher, DA Leigh… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic chemistry has traditionally relied on reactions between reactants of high chemical
potential and transformations that proceed energetically downhill to either a global or local …

Pum** between phases with a pulsed-fuel molecular ratchet

D Thomas, DJ Tetlow, Y Ren, S Kassem… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The sorption of species from a solution into and onto solids underpins the sequestering of
waste and pollutants, precious metal recovery, heterogeneous catalysis, analysis and …

Fabrication of Large-Area Metal-on-Carbon Catalytic Condensers for Programmable Catalysis

KR Oh, TM Onn, A Walton, ML Odlyzko… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Catalytic condensers stabilize charge on either side of a high-k dielectric film to modulate
the electronic states of a catalytic layer for the electronic control of surface reactions. Here …

Flexible and Extensive Platinum Ion Gel Condensers for Programmable Catalysis

TM Onn, KR Oh, DZ Adrahtas, JK Soeherman… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Catalytic condensers composed of ion gels separating a metal electrode from a platinum-on-
carbon active layer were fabricated and characterized to achieve more powerful, high …

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 …

The catalytic mechanics of dynamic surfaces: stimulating methods for promoting catalytic resonance

M Shetty, A Walton, SR Gathmann, MA Ardagh… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transformational catalytic performance in rate and selectivity is obtainable through catalysts
that change on the time scale of catalytic turnover frequency. In this work, dynamic catalysts …

Catalytic resonance of ammonia synthesis by simulated dynamic ruthenium crystal strain

GR Wittreich, S Liu, PJ Dauenhauer, DG Vlachos - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Ammonia affords dense storage for renewable energy as a fungible liquid fuel, provided it
can be efficiently synthesized from hydrogen and nitrogen. In this work, the catalysis of …

Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor

JM Gallagher, BMW Roberts, S Borsley, DA Leigh - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
Conformational dynamics are increasingly recognized as an important contributor to enzyme
catalysis but are often overlooked in synthetic catalyst design. Here, we experimentally …