Kinetics driven by hollow nanoreactors: an opportunity for controllable catalysis

Z Yu, N Ji, X Li, R Zhang, Y Qiao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a novel class of catalytic materials, hollow nanoreactors offer new opportunities for
improving catalytic performance owing to their higher controllability on molecular kinetic …

Super-resolution microscopy with single molecules in biology and beyond–essentials, current trends, and future challenges

L Möckl, WE Moerner - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule super-resolution microscopy has developed from a specialized technique
into one of the most versatile and powerful imaging methods of the nanoscale over the past …

Catalytic upcycling of high-density polyethylene via a processive mechanism

A Tennakoon, X Wu, AL Paterson, S Patnaik, Y Pei… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
The overconsumption of single-use plastics is creating a global waste catastrophe, with
widespread environmental, economic and health-related consequences. Here we show that …

Exceptional catalytic activity of oxygen evolution reaction via two-dimensional graphene multilayer confined metal-organic frameworks

S Lyu, C Guo, J Wang, Z Li, B Yang, L Lei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a key role in many renewable energy technologies
such as water splitting and metal-air batteries. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are …

Environmental applications of engineered materials with nanoconfinement

S Zhang, T Hedtke, X Zhou, M Elimelech… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Engineered nanoporous materials have been extensively employed in the environmental
field to take advantage of increased surface area and tunable size exclusion. Beyond those …

Engineered nanoconfinement accelerating spontaneous manganese-catalyzed degradation of organic contaminants

S Zhang, T Hedtke, L Wang, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manganese (III/IV) oxide minerals are known to spontaneously degrade organic pollutants in
nature. However, the kinetics are too slow to be useful for engineered water treatment …

Nanoscale electrochemical mapping

CL Bentley, J Edmondson, GN Meloni, D Perry… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Surfaces and interfaces, of both practical and fundamental interest, have long been
recognized to be complex, yet while there are many microscopy and spectroscopy methods …

Dynamic imaging of interfacial electrochemistry on single Ag nanowires by azimuth-modulated plasmonic scattering interferometry

G Wu, C Qian, WL Lv, X Zhao, XW Liu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Direct visualization of surface chemical dynamics in solution is essential for understanding
the mechanisms involved in nanocatalysis and electrochemistry; however, it is challenging …

Fast and selective semihydrogenation of alkynes by palladium nanoparticles sandwiched in metal–organic frameworks

K Choe, F Zheng, H Wang, Y Yuan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The semihydrogenation of alkynes into alkenes rather than alkanes is of great importance in
the chemical industry. Unfortunately, state‐of‐the‐art heterogeneous catalysts hardly …

Direct visualization of nanoconfinement effect on nanoreactor via electrochemiluminescence microscopy

X Huang, B Li, Y Lu, Y Liu, S Wang, N Sojic… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoconfinement in mesoporous nanoarchitectures could dramatically change molecular
transport and reaction kinetics during electrochemical process. A molecular‐level …