The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis

C Vogt, BM Weckhuysen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Catalysis is at the core of chemistry and has been essential to make all the goods
surrounding us, including fuels, coatings, plastics and other functional materials. In the near …

Nanoscale engineering of catalytic materials for sustainable technologies

S Mitchell, R Qin, N Zheng, J Pérez-Ramírez - Nature nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Nanostructured materials of diverse architecture are ubiquitous in industrial catalysis. They
offer exciting prospects to tackle various sustainability challenges faced by society. Since the …

Direct imaging of single-molecule electrochemical reactions in solution

J Dong, Y Lu, Y Xu, F Chen, J Yang, Y Chen, J Feng - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Chemical reactions tend to be conceptualized in terms of individual molecules transforming
into products, but are usually observed in experiments that probe the average behaviour of …

Metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

MZ Rahman, MG Kibria, CB Mullins - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review focuses on the discussion of the latest progress and remaining challenges in
selected metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen production. The scope of this review is …

Reactions in single-molecule junctions

H Chen, C Jia, X Zhu, C Yang, X Guo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Developing new materials is a long-standing goal that extends across the fields of synthesis,
catalysis, nanotechnology and materials science. Transforming one compound or material …

Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production

MZ Rahman, T Edvinsson, J Gascon - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
In photochemical production of hydrogen from water, the hole-mediated oxidation reaction is
the rate-determining step. A poor solar-to-hydrogen efficiency is usually related to a …

Selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction over Zn-based layered double hydroxides containing tri or tetravalent metals

X Xiong, Y Zhao, R Shi, W Yin, Y Zhao… - Science Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic CO 2 reduction holds promise as a future technology for the manufacture of
fuels and commodity chemicals. However, factors controlling product selectivity remain …

Identifying the active sites in unequal iron-nitrogen single-atom catalysts

L Huang, Q Liu, W Wu, G Gao, X Zheng, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have become one of the most attractive frontier research fields
in catalysis and energy conversion. However, due to the atomic heterogeneity of SACs and …

Electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of single entities

W Zhao, HY Chen, JJ Xu - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrogenerated chemiluminescence, also known as electrochemiluminescence (ECL), is
an electrochemically induced production of light by excited luminophores generated during …

Catalytic processes monitored at the nanoscale with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

EM van Schrojenstein Lantman… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalysts play a pivotal role in the chemical industry, but acquiring molecular
insights into functioning catalysts remains a significant challenge,,,. Recent advances in …