Well-defined materials for heterogeneous catalysis: from nanoparticles to isolated single-atom sites

Z Li, S Ji, Y Liu, X Cao, S Tian, Y Chen, Z Niu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The use of well-defined materials in heterogeneous catalysis will open up numerous new
opportunities for the development of advanced catalysts to address the global challenges in …

Nanoparticle assembly and oriented attachment: correlating controlling factors to the resulting structures

D Li, Q Chen, J Chun, K Fichthorn, J De Yoreo… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle assembly and attachment are common pathways of crystal growth by which
particles organize into larger scale materials with hierarchical structure and long-range …

Nanoparticle characterization: what to measure?

MM Modena, B Rühle, TP Burg, S Wuttke - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
What to measure? is a key question in nanoscience, and it is not straightforward to address
as different physicochemical properties define a nanoparticle sample. Most prominent …

Operando Electron Microscopy of Catalysts: The Missing Cornerstone in Heterogeneous Catalysis Research?

SW Chee, T Lunkenbein, R Schlögl… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis in thermal gas-phase and electrochemical liquid-phase chemical
conversion plays an important role in our modern energy landscape. However, many of the …

Next-generation ultrafiltration membranes enabled by block polymers

N Hampu, JR Werber, WY Chan, EC Feinberg… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Reliable and equitable access to safe drinking water is a major and growing challenge
worldwide. Membrane separations represent one of the most promising strategies for the …

Liquid–liquid phase separation during amphiphilic self-assembly

A Ianiro, H Wu, MMJ van Rijt, MP Vena, ADA Keizer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in solution is a ubiquitous process in both
natural and synthetic systems. The ability to effectively control the structure and properties of …

Where biology and traditional polymers meet: The potential of associating sequence-defined polymers for materials science

AJ DeStefano, RA Segalman, EC Davidson - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely defined monomeric sequences present an exquisite tool for
controlling material properties by harnessing both the robustness of synthetic polymers and …

Imaging beam‐sensitive materials by electron microscopy

Q Chen, C Dwyer, G Sheng, C Zhu, X Li… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electron microscopy allows the extraction of multidimensional spatiotemporally correlated
structural information of diverse materials down to atomic resolution, which is essential for …

Resolution and aberration correction in liquid cell transmission electron microscopy

N de Jonge, L Houben, RE Dunin-Borkowski… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Liquid cell electron microscopy possesses a combination of spatial and temporal resolution
that provides a unique view of static structures and dynamic processes in liquids. Optimizing …

Electrochemistry under confinement

M Jaugstetter, N Blanc, M Kratz… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the term 'confinement'regularly appears in electrochemical literature, elevated by
continuous progression in the research of nanomaterials and nanostructures, up until today …