Electrocatalysis in alkaline media and alkaline membrane-based energy technologies

Y Yang, CR Peltier, R Zeng, R Schimmenti, Q Li… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen energy-based electrochemical energy conversion technologies offer the promise
of enabling a transition of the global energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewable energy …

The sabatier principle in electrocatalysis: Basics, limitations, and extensions

H Ooka, J Huang, KS Exner - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Sabatier principle, which states that the binding energy between the catalyst and the
reactant should be neither too strong nor too weak, has been widely used as the key …

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 …

Machine learning for design principles for single atom catalysts towards electrochemical reactions

M Tamtaji, H Gao, MD Hossain, PR Galligan… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Machine learning (ML) integrated density functional theory (DFT) calculations have recently
been used to accelerate the design and discovery of heterogeneous catalysts such as single …

Artificial molecular ratchets: Tools enabling endergonic processes

T Sangchai, S Al Shehimy, E Penocchio… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐equilibrium chemical systems underpin multiple domains of contemporary interest,
including supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, systems chemistry, prebiotic …

Direct Electroreduction of Carbonate to Formate

H Ma, E Ibáñez-Alé, R Ganganahalli… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A cause of losses in energy and carbon conversion efficiencies during the electrochemical
CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR) can be attributed to the formation of carbonates (CO32–) …

Ratcheting synthesis

S Borsley, JM Gallagher, DA Leigh… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic chemistry has traditionally relied on reactions between reactants of high chemical
potential and transformations that proceed energetically downhill to either a global or local …

Deformable catalytic material derived from mechanical flexibility for hydrogen evolution reaction

F Wang, L Xie, N Sun, T Zhi, M Zhang, Y Liu, Z Luo… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Deformable catalytic material with excellent flexible structure is a new type of catalyst that
has been applied in various chemical reactions, especially electrocatalytic hydrogen …

The oscillating fischer-tropsch reaction

R Zhang, Y Wang, P Gaspard, N Kruse - Science, 2023 - science.org
The mechanistic steps that underlie the formation of higher hydrocarbons in catalytic carbon
monoxide (CO) hydrogenation at atmospheric pressure over cobalt-based catalysts (Fischer …

Fabrication of Large-Area Metal-on-Carbon Catalytic Condensers for Programmable Catalysis

KR Oh, TM Onn, A Walton, ML Odlyzko… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Catalytic condensers stabilize charge on either side of a high-k dielectric film to modulate
the electronic states of a catalytic layer for the electronic control of surface reactions. Here …