Atomically precise clusters of noble metals: emerging link between atoms and nanoparticles

I Chakraborty, T Pradeep - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise pieces of matter of nanometer dimensions composed of noble metals are
new categories of materials with many unusual properties. Over 100 molecules of this kind …

Effect of Pd Coordination and Isolation on the Catalytic Reduction of O2 to H2O2 over PdAu Bimetallic Nanoparticles

T Ricciardulli, S Gorthy, JS Adams… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2+ O2→ H2O2) may enable low-cost H2O2
production and reduce environmental impacts of chemical oxidations. Here, we synthesize a …

Enhancement in Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Catalysis of Au25 Clusters by Single Pd Atom Doping

S Xie, H Tsunoyama, W Kurashige, Y Negishi… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Au25 and Pd1Au24 clusters on multiwalled carbon nanotubes were developed via
adsorption of Au25 (SC12H25) 18 and Pd1Au24 (SC12H25) 18, respectively, on the …

Controlling hydrogen activation, spillover, and desorption with Pd–Au single-atom alloys

FR Lucci, MT Darby, MFG Mattera… - The journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Key descriptors in hydrogenation catalysis are the nature of the active sites for H2 activation
and the adsorption strength of H atoms to the surface. Using atomically resolved model …

Heterogeneous catalysis by gold

T Takei, T Akita, I Nakamura, T Fujitani, M Okumura… - Advances in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Gold can be deposited as nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 2–5 nm and clusters with
diameters less than 2 nm on a variety of materials such as oxides, carbides, and sulfides of …

“Inverting” X-ray absorption spectra of catalysts by machine learning in search for activity descriptors

J Timoshenko, AI Frenkel - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
The rapid growth of methods emerging in the past decade for synthesis of “designer”
catalysts—ranging from the size and shape-selected nanoparticles to mass-selected …

Probing atomic distributions in mono-and bimetallic nanoparticles by supervised machine learning

J Timoshenko, CJ Wrasman, M Luneau, T Shirman… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Properties of mono-and bimetallic metal nanoparticles (NPs) may depend strongly on their
compositional, structural (or geometrical) attributes, and their atomic dynamics, all of which …

Theoretical studies of palladium− gold nanoclusters: Pd− Au clusters with up to 50 atoms

F Pittaway, LO Paz-Borbón, RL Johnston… - The Journal of …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Global optimization of Pd− Au bimetallic clusters in the size range N= 2− 50 has been
performed using a genetic algorithm, coupled with the Gupta many-body empirical potential …

Thiolate‐protected single‐atom alloy nanoclusters: Correlation between electronic properties and catalytic activities

AG Walsh, P Zhang - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their interesting chemical and optical properties, metal nanoclusters are used in
various catalytic reactions and in energy conversion. By incorporating thiolate‐protecting …

Hydrogen dissociation controls 1-hexyne selective hydrogenation on dilute Pd-in-Au catalysts

HT Ngan, G Yan, JES Van Der Hoeven, RJ Madix… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Increasing the selectivity of the catalytic hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes is of major
importance for the processing of petrochemicals and the production of fine chemicals …