Catalysis is becoming a strategic field of science because it represents a new way to meet
the challenges of energy and sustainability. These challenges are becoming the main …

Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

Nano-materials are important in many diverse areas, from basic research to various
applications in electronics, biochemical sensors, catalysis and energy. They have emerged …

This critical review deals with the applications of nanocatalysts in Suzuki coupling reactions,
a field that has attracted immense interest in the chemical, materials and industrial …

Solid catalysts are the workhorses that convert feedstock molecules into fuels, chemicals
and materials. Solid catalysts are highly complex, porous, multi-elemental and often …

The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and
many evolutionary ones, now yields a wealth of quantitative knowledge pertaining to …

Catalytic solids in the spotlight: Detailed insight into the working principles of heterogeneous
catalysts is essential for the design of improved or totally new ones. Such insight can be …

Nanoparticles are among the most important industrial catalysts, with applications ranging
from chemical manufacturing to energy conversion and storage. Heterogeneity is a general …

The production of hydrocarbons or oxygenates via the hydrogenation–polymerisation of
either CO (Fischer–Tropsch) or CO2 as carbon sources has significant similarities from a …

This review highlights the importance of developing multi‐scale characterisation techniques
for analysing operating catalysts in their working environment. We emphasise that a …