Thirteen-atom metal clusters for genetic materials

Y Jia, Z Luo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The stability of metal clusters is often associated with relatively low energy, highly symmetric
structure, electronic shell closure and chemical reaction inertness, which is tunable by …

Beyond ordered materials: understanding catalytic sites on amorphous solids

BR Goldsmith, B Peters, JK Johnson, BC Gates… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are widely used as components of solid catalysts and have been the
subject of much applied research. In some instances, their catalytic performance is …

Computational design of clusters for catalysis

E Jimenez-Izal, AN Alexandrova - Annual review of physical …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
When small clusters are studied in chemical physics or physical chemistry, one perhaps
thinks of the fundamental aspects of cluster electronic structure, or precision spectroscopy in …

Facile fabrication of La3+ sites in confined spaces for adsorptive desulfurization

F Subhan, S Aslam, Z Yan, M Yaseen - Fuel Processing Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
La 2 O 3-modified materials are attractive for adsorptive desulfurization of fuels because of
non-toxicity, excellent desulfurization efficiency, and reasonable cost. Nevertheless, the …

Fluoroethylene carbonate as a directing agent in amorphous silicon anodes: electrolyte interface structure probed by sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy and ab …

Y Horowitz, HL Han, FA Soto, WT Ralston… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fluorinated compounds are added to carbonate-based electrolyte solutions in an effort to
create a stable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). The SEI mitigates detrimental electrolyte …

Unravelling the critical role of silanol in Pt/SiO2 for room temperature HCHO oxidation: An experimental and DFT study

S Chen, S Gueddida, M Badawi, S Lebègue… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present work, Pt/SiO 2 catalysts have been prepared by impregnating as-prepared Pt
NPs onto commercial SiO 2 of tailored silanol density (2.3, 3.1 and 4.5 OH nm− 2) produced …

Unusual Pd nanoparticle dispersion in microenvironment for p-nitrophenol and methylene blue catalytic reduction

F Subhan, S Aslam, Z Yan, M Yaseen - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Palladium based catalysts are highly attractive for catalytic reactions. However, the catalytic
activity is dependent on the dispersion and size of Pd nanoparticles (NPs). Herein, an …

Highly dispersive lanthanum oxide fabricated in confined space of SBA-15 for adsorptive desulfurization

F Subhan, S Aslam, Z Yan, A Ahmad, UJ Etim… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lanthanum based adsorbents are promising in adsorptive desulfurization due to high
activity. The dispersion degree of La 2 O 3 impacts desulfurization performance directly, and …

Effect of support preparation and nanoparticle size on catalyst–support interactions between Pt and amorphous silica

CS Ewing, G Veser, JJ McCarthy… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The interaction between catalytic nanoparticles (NPs) and their supports, which are often
amorphous oxides, has not been well characterized at the atomic level, although it is known …

Rhodium Single‐Atom Catalysts on Titania for Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction Explored by First Principles Mechanistic Analysis and Compared to Nanoclusters

F Doherty, BR Goldsmith - ChemCatChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The thermocatalytic reduction of CO2 by H2 often proceeds via two competing reaction
mechanisms–the reverse water gas shift reaction (rWGSR, CO2+ H2⇌ CO+ H2O) and …