Control of metal-support interactions in heterogeneous catalysts to enhance activity and selectivity

TW van Deelen, C Hernández Mejía, KP de Jong - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Metal nanoparticles stabilized on a support material catalyse many major industrial
reactions. Metal-support interactions in these nanomaterials can have a substantial …

Towards dense single-atom catalysts for future automotive applications

A Beniya, S Higashi - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
CO oxidation is an important primary reaction in automotive catalysis, and has been studied
extensively since the 1970s because of its fundamental nature and technological relevance …

Highly Enhanced Chloride Adsorption Mediates Efficient Neutral CO2 Electroreduction over a Dual-Phase Copper Catalyst

PP Yang, XL Zhang, P Liu, DJ Kelly… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2R) in neutral electrolytes can mitigate the
energy and carbon losses caused by carbonate formation but often experiences unsatisfied …

Steam-created grain boundaries for methane C–H activation in palladium catalysts

W Huang, AC Johnston-Peck, T Wolter, WCD Yang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Defects may display high reactivity because the specific arrangement of atoms differs from
crystalline surfaces. We demonstrate that high-temperature steam pretreatment of palladium …

Engineering electrocatalyst nanosurfaces to enrich the activity by inducing lattice strain

S Maiti, K Maiti, MT Curnan, K Kim, KJ Noh… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalysis undeniably offers noteworthy improvements to future energy conversion and
storage technologies, such as fuel cells, water electrolyzers, and metal–air batteries. The …

Atomic-scale insights on hydrogen trapping and exclusion at incoherent interfaces of nanoprecipitates in martensitic steels

B Zhang, Q Zhu, C Xu, C Li, Y Ma, Z Ma, S Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrogen is well known to embrittle high-strength steels and impair their corrosion
resistance. One of the most attractive methods to mitigate hydrogen embrittlement employs …

Metal-support interaction for heterogeneous catalysis: from nanoparticles to single atoms

Y Lou, J Xu, Y Zhang, C Pan, Y Dong, Y Zhu - Materials Today Nano, 2020 - Elsevier
With the downsizing of metal sizes (nanoparticles, nanoclusters, and single atoms), the
catalytic behaviors of supported metal species change significantly for various chemical …

Analytical transmission electron microscopy for emerging advanced materials

Y Lin, M Zhou, X Tai, H Li, X Han, J Yu - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
With remarkable achievements in spatial resolution and its derived analytical techniques,
transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been capable of probing enriched information …

Mutual-modification effect in adjacent Pt nanoparticles and single atoms with sub-nanometer inter-site distances to boost photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

M Gao, F Tian, Z Guo, X Zhang, Z Li, J Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The proximity effect of adjacent metal sites has been widely investigated to modulate the
electronic structure and catalytic activity of single atoms (SAs) catalysts, but is rarely reported …

Designing Atomically Dispersed Au on Tensile-Strained Pd for Efficient CO2 Electroreduction to Formate

J Bok, SY Lee, BH Lee, C Kim… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pd is one of the most effective catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate,
a valuable liquid product, at low overpotential. However, the intrinsically high CO affinity of …