Carbon deposit analysis in catalyst deactivation, regeneration, and rejuvenation

ETC Vogt, D Fu, BM Weckhuysen - … Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrocarbon conversion catalysts suffer from deactivation by deposition or formation of
carbon deposits. Carbon deposit formation is thermodynamically favored above 350° C …

Super-resolution microscopy as a powerful tool to study complex synthetic materials

S Pujals, N Feiner-Gracia, P Delcanale, I Voets… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the relations between the formation, structure, dynamics and functionality of
complex synthetic materials is one of the great challenges in chemistry and nanotechnology …

Plastic waste conversion over a refinery waste catalyst

I Vollmer, MJF Jenks… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polypropylene (PP) makes up a large share of our plastic waste. We investigated the
conversion of PP over the industrial Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst (FCC‐cat) used to …

Imaging the chemical activity of single nanoparticles with optical microscopy

W Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials exhibit structural and functional heterogeneity among individual
nanoparticles, thus requiring a capability to study single nanoparticles. While electron …

Spectroscopy, microscopy, diffraction and scattering of archetypal MOFs: formation, metal sites in catalysis and thin films

M Rivera-Torrente, LDB Mandemaker, M Filez… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous crystalline materials showing great
potential for applications such as catalysis, gas storage, molecular separations, energy …

Mechanistic insights gained by high spatial resolution reactivity mapping of homogeneous and heterogeneous (Electro) catalysts

S Dery, B Friedman, H Shema, E Gross - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The recent development of high spatial resolution microscopy and spectroscopy tools
enabled reactivity analysis of homogeneous and heterogeneous (electro) catalysts at …

Molecular transport in zeolite catalysts: depicting an integrated picture from macroscopic to microscopic scales

X Liu, C Wang, J Zhou, C Liu, Z Liu, J Shi… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing social sustainability triggers the persistent progress of industrial catalysis in
energy transformation and chemical production. Zeolites have been demonstrated to be …

Single molecule fluorescence imaging of nanoconfinement in porous materials

B Dong, N Mansour, TX Huang, W Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers recent progress in using single molecule fluorescence microscopy
imaging to understand the nanoconfinement in porous materials. The single molecule …

Single-molecule fluorescence imaging for probing nanocatalytic process

Y Xiao, W Xu - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Single-molecule fluorescent microscopy (SMFM) has proved to be a powerful imaging tool
for in situ monitoring catalytic reactions on individual nanocatalysts with high spatiotemporal …

Advanced electrochemical techniques for characterizing electrocatalysis at the single-particle level

H Li, Y Guo, Z Jin - Carbon Neutrality, 2023 - Springer
Electrocatalytic technologies play a vital role in the advancement of hydrogen energy and
other renewable green energy sources, with nanocatalysts gaining significant attention due …