Plasma catalysis: synergistic effects at the nanoscale

EC Neyts, K Ostrikov, MK Sunkara… - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Thermal-catalytic gas processing is integral to many current industrial processes. Ever-
increasing demands on conversion and energy efficiencies are a strong driving force for the …

Nanocatalysis: size-and shape-dependent chemisorption and catalytic reactivity

BR Cuenya, F Behafarid - Surface Science Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, the field of catalysis has experienced an astonishing transformation, driven
in part by more demanding environmental standards and critical societal and industrial …

Metal affinity of support dictates sintering of gold catalysts

JC Liu, L Luo, H Xiao, J Zhu, Y He… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sintering during heterogeneous catalytic reactions is one of the most notorious deactivation
channels in catalysts of supported metal nanoparticles. It is therefore critical to understand …

Electrochemistry of nanoparticles

SEF Kleijn, SCS Lai, MTM Koper… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoparticles (NPs) find widespread application as a result of their unique physical
and chemical properties. NPs have generated considerable interest in catalysis and …

The energetics of supported metal nanoparticles: relationships to sintering rates and catalytic activity

CT Campbell - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
Transition metal nanoparticles on the surfaces of oxide andcarbon support materials form
the basis for most solid catalysts and electrocatalysts, and have important industrial …

Stabilized gold nanoparticles on ceria nanorods by strong interfacial anchoring

N Ta, J Liu, S Chenna, PA Crozier, Y Li… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Au/CeO2 catalysts are highly active for low-temperature CO oxidation and water–gas shift
reaction, but they deactivate rapidly because of sintering of gold nanoparticles, linked to the …

Enthalpies and entropies of adsorption on well-defined oxide surfaces: Experimental measurements

CT Campbell, JRV Sellers - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The chemistry of oxide surfaces plays a central role in many current technologies, and
promises to play an ever-increasing role in future technologies. In addition to their …

Zeta potential for metal oxide nanoparticles: a predictive model developed by a nano-quantitative structure–property relationship approach

A Mikolajczyk, A Gajewicz, B Rasulev… - Chemistry of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Physico–chemical characterization of nanoparticles in the context of their transport and fate
in the environment is an important challenge for risk assessment of nanomaterials. One of …

Anchored metal nanoparticles: Effects of support and size on their energy, sintering resistance and reactivity

CT Campbell, JRV Sellers - Faraday discussions, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Many catalysts consist of metal nanoparticles anchored to the surfaces of oxide supports.
These are key elements in technologies for the clean production and use of fuels and …

Size dependence of the adsorption energy of CO on metal nanoparticles: a DFT search for the minimum value

IV Yudanov, A Genest, S Schauermann, HJ Freund… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
With a density functional theory method, we studied computationally the size dependence of
adsorption properties of metal nanoparticles for CO as a probe on Pd n clusters with n= 13 …