Nanostructures have attracted huge interest as a rapidly growing class of materials for many
applications. Several techniques have been used to characterize the size, crystal structure …

Vaccination is still the most cost-effective way to combat infectious illnesses. Conventional
vaccinations may have low immunogenicity and, in most situations, only provide partial …

The development of sufficiently effective catalysts with extremely superior performance for
electrocatalytic hydrogen production still remains a formidable challenge, especially in …

A Ni/CeO 2 catalyst was prepared via decomposition of nickel precursor by gas discharge
plasma, followed by hydrogen reduction thermally. The activity of the obtained catalyst …

CO2 hydrogenation to methanol has attracted increasing attention with the development of
renewable hydrogen. A big challenge is to identify catalysts able to achieve high conversion …

The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (where carbon monoxide plus water yields dihydrogen
and carbon dioxide) is an essential process for hydrogen generation and carbon monoxide …

Maximizing the platinum utilization in electrocatalysts toward oxygen reduction reaction
(ORR) is very desirable for large‐scale sustainable application of Pt in energy systems. A …

The direct hydrogenation of CO 2 into methanol is crucial for providing a means of CO 2
fixation and a way to store cleanly produced hydrogen in a more energy-dense and …

The catalytic activities of supported metal nanoparticles can be tuned by appropriate design
of synthesis strategies. Each step in a catalyst synthesis method can play an important role …

Nucleation and growth are two important and entwined processes in materials synthesis and
engineering. While understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of the processes remain …