Heterogeneous catalysis

R Schlögl - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A heterogeneous catalyst is a functional material that continually creates active sites with its
reactants under reaction conditions. These sites change the rates of chemical reactions of …

Oxide ultra-thin films on metals: new materials for the design of supported metal catalysts

HJ Freund, G Pacchioni - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Ultrathin oxide films on metals offer new opportunities for the design of supported
nanoclusters with potential use in catalysis. This requires a characterization at the atomistic …

Multimodal luminescence in Pr3+ single-doped Li2CaSiO4 phosphor for optical information storage and anti-counterfeiting applications

Y Zhang, X Shan, X Lv, D Chen, S Miao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Discovering multimodal luminescent materials capable of being excited by diverse excitation
sources and producing different wavelengths of light emission in a single material system …

Vacancy‐induced catalytic mechanism for alcohol electrooxidation on nickel‐based electrocatalyst

W Chen, J Shi, Y Wu, Y Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to outstanding performances, nickel‐based electrocatalysts are commonly used in
electrochemical alcohol oxidation reactions (AORs), and the active phase is usually vacancy …

Electron transfer at oxide surfaces. The MgO paradigm: from defects to ultrathin films

G Pacchioni, H Freund - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Electron transfer (ET) is a fundamental process in physics, chemistry, and biology. 1 Charge
transfer determines phenomena like oxidation and reduction, bond activation and bond …

Multistimuli‐responsive display materials to encrypt differentiated information in bright and dark fields

T Jiang, YF Zhu, JC Zhang, J Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Visually readable codes play a crucial role in anticounterfeiting measures. However, current
coding approaches do not enable time‐dependent codes to be visually read, adjusted, and …

Enriched graphitic N dopants of carbon dots as F cores mediate photothermal conversion in the NIR-II window with high efficiency

B Geng, W Shen, F Fang, H Qin, P Li, X Wang, X Li… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
We have developed the rapid synthesis of NIR–II–responsive carbon dots (NIR–II–CDs)
under microwave irradiation conditions. A close correlation between the photothermal …

Surface chemistry of CO2–Adsorption of carbon dioxide on clean surfaces at ultrahigh vacuum

U Burghaus - Progress in surface science, 2014 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide chemistry has attracted significant interest in recent years. Although the field
is diverse, a current and more comprehensive review of the surface science literature may …

Modeling doped and defective oxides in catalysis with density functional theory methods: Room for improvements

G Pacchioni - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Due to the well-known problem of the self-interaction, standard density functional theory
(DFT) methods tend to produce delocalized holes and electrons in defective oxide materials …

Properties of oxide thin films and their adsorption behavior studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and conductance spectroscopy

N Nilius - Surface Science Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
The preparation of thin oxide films on metal supports is a versatile approach to explore the
properties of oxide materials that are otherwise inaccessible to most surface science …