Square-pyramidal subsurface oxygen [Ag4OAg] drives selective ethene epoxidation on silver

D Chen, L Chen, QC Zhao, ZX Yang, C Shang… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
Ag-catalysed ethene epoxidation is the only viable route for making ethene oxide (EO) in
industry, but the active site remains elusive due to the lack of tools to probe this reaction …

Computational Design of Catalysts with Experimental Validation: Recent Successes, Effective Strategies, and Pitfalls

H Hosseini, CJ Herring, CF Nwaokorie… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Computation has long proven useful in understanding heterogeneous catalysts and
rationalizing experimental findings. However, computational design with experimental …

Up up down down left right left right BA Start for the catalytic hackers of programmable materials

PJ Dauenhauer - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
The valuable information of catalysis for the past century has been the composition and
structure of high-performing catalytic materials. But a new class of programmable catalysts …

Reaction Intermediates Involved in the Epoxidation of Ethylene Over Silver Revealed by In Situ Photoelectron Spectroscopy

M Guo, N Dongfang, Q Liu, M Iannuzzi… - Small, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Ethylene oxide (EO) is a crucial building block in the chemical industry, and its production
via ethylene epoxidation (EPO) is a pivotal process. Silver‐based catalysts are known for …

Tailoring the Electronic Metal‐Support Interactions in Supported Silver Catalysts through Al modification for Efficient Ethylene Epoxidation

H Yang, G Li, Q Liu, H Cheng, X Wang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐modified catalysts have attracted extraordinary research attention in heterogeneous
catalysis due to their enhanced geometric and electronic structures and outstanding catalytic …

Non-steady state validation of kinetic models for ethylene epoxidation over silver catalysts

L Brandão, C Reece - Catalysis Science & Technology, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Kinetic modelling has been key to develo** a mechanistic understanding of the
epoxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide over silver catalysts. However, models of varying …

The Performance of Ethylene Partial Oxidation on Group IB Metal Stepped Surfaces

H Huang, Z Guo, L Wei, W **ong, H Li - ChemCatChem - Wiley Online Library
Group IB metal catalysts, particularly Ag, Au, and Cu, exhibit particular selectivity for
ethylene oxide (EO) formation, while Ag demonstrating the highest performance so far …

[PDF][PDF] Accounting for entropy in reactor-level simulations of ethylene epoxidation: does it really matter?

J Golobič, A Pavlišič, M Grilc, A Hellman, B Likozar… - iscre28.org
Ethylene epoxidation is an important selective oxidation, which is industrially used to
produce ethylene epoxide in millions of tones yearly.[1] Silver has been recognized as the …