The fascinating particle size dependence to the physical, photophysical, and chemical properties of gold has motivated thousands of studies focused on exploring the ability of …
MO Özbek, RA Van Santen - Catalysis letters, 2013 - Springer
Today ethylene oxide can be produced industrially with~ 90% selectivity through the epoxidation of ethylene over silver catalyst. The past decades there has been a substantial …
LV Moskaleva, S Röhe, A Wittstock… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, several forms of unsupportedgold were shown to display a remarkable activity to catalyze oxidation reactions. Experimental evidence points to the crucial role of residual …
MO Ozbek, I Onal, RA Van Santen - Journal of Catalysis, 2011 - Elsevier
The activities of Cu2O (001), Ag2O (001), and Au2O (001) surfaces for direct ethylene epoxidation and alternative paths for EO isomerization are studied. Among these three oxide …
Ethylene epoxidation is industrially and commercially one of the most important selective oxidations. Silver catalysts have been state‐of‐the‐art for decades, their efficiency steadily …
Y Gao, N Shao, Y Pei, XC Zeng - Nano letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
Structural and catalytic properties of the gold alloy nanocluster Au43Cu12 are investigated using a density-functional method. In contrast to the pure Au55 nanocluster, which exhibits a …
X Liu, RJ Madix, CM Friend - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
The coinage metals, copper, silver, and gold, have unique characteristics for selective oxidation catalysis, particularly for partial oxidation of alcohols and olefins. A basic …
JA Rodriguez, L Feria, T Jirsak… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
High-resolution photoemission and density functional calculations on realistic slab surface models were used to study the interaction and subsequent dissociation of O2 with Au …
D Chen, PL Kang, ZP Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ethene epoxidation on Ag-based catalysts, an important heterogeneous catalytic reaction with large-scale global wide production, has generated continuous debate on the active site …