Hybrid plasmonic nanomaterials for hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide reduction

S Ezendam, M Herran, L Nan, C Gruber… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The successful development of artificial photosynthesis requires finding new materials able
to efficiently harvest sunlight and catalyze hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide …

Metal–support interactions for heterogeneous catalysis: mechanisms, characterization techniques and applications

J Chen, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, D Hou, F Bai… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–support interactions (MSIs) have become one of the research directions of great
interest in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and are significant for the design of supported …

A highly active Pt/In 2 O 3 catalyst for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol with enhanced stability

K Sun, N Rui, Z Zhang, Z Sun, Q Ge, CJ Liu - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Supported Pt catalysts have been extensively investigated for CO2 hydrogenation with
methane and CO as the principal products. In this work, a Pt/In2O3 catalyst prepared with …

[HTML][HTML] A strong bimetal-support interaction in ethanol steam reforming

H Meng, Y Yang, T Shen, W Liu, L Wang, P Yin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The metal-support interaction (MSI) in heterogeneous catalysts plays a crucial role in
reforming reaction to produce renewable hydrogen, but conventional objects are limited to …

Strategies to improve hydrogen activation on gold catalysts

N Dimitratos, G Vilé, S Albonetti, F Cavani… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Catalytic reactions involving molecular hydrogen are at the heart of many transformations in
the chemical industry. Classically, hydrogenations are carried out on Pd, Pt, Ru or Ni …

Unraveling the role of surface and interfacial defects in hydrogen production to construct an all-in-one broken-gap photocatalyst

J Li, X Wang, H Fang, X Guo, R Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Broken-gap heterojunctions are rarely used as photocatalysts due to their non-overlapping
bandgap, which is a barrier to optimal charge carrier separation and higher photocatalytic …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in tunable metal–support interactions for enhancing the photocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction

BH Wang, GH Chen, B Hu, L Chen, X Wang, S Tian… - EES Catalysis, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3), as an important foundational chemical and green hydrogen energy carrier,
plays an indispensable role in the development of human society. However, it is evident that …

Ti‐Modified Imogolite Nanotubes as Promising Photocatalyst 1D Nanostructures for H2 Production

P Jimenéz‐Calvo, Y Naciri, A Sobolewska… - Small …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Imogolite nanotubes (INTs) are predicted as a unique 1D material with spatial separation of
conduction and valence band edges but their large band gaps have inhibited their use as …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the activity of gold supported catalysts by oxide coating: Towards efficient oxidations

CP Ferraz, S Navarro-Jaén, LM Rossi, F Dumeignil… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Core–shell SiO2@ Au@ TiO2 materials have shown excellent catalytic performances in the
base-free oxidation of furfural (FF) to furoic acid (FA). The enhanced catalytic behaviour with …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructured TiO 2 for improving the solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency

C Wang, MN Ghazzal - Energy Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Learning from nature's complex photosynthesis process and leaf architecture, it appears, in
a simplified picture, that light-harvesting, photogenerated charge carrier separation and their …