BACKGROUND Catalysis has had a transformative impact on society, playing a crucial role
in the production of modern materials, medicines, fuels, and chemicals. Precious metals …

Conspectus The development of sustainable plastic materials is an essential target of
chemistry in the 21st century. Key objectives toward this goal include utilizing sustainable …

Understanding the chemistry underpinning intermetallic synergy and the discovery of
generally applicable structure-performances relationships are major challenges in catalysis …

The ring-opening copolymerization of carbon dioxide and propene oxide is a useful means
to valorize waste into commercially attractive poly (propylene carbonate)(PPC) polyols. The …

Electric fields underlie all reactions and impact reactivity by interacting with the dipoles and
net charges of transition states, products, and reactants to modify the free energy landscape …

Electrodes chemically modified with molecular active sites are potent catalysts for energy
conversion reactions. Such electrodes are typically presumed to operate by the same redox …

Next-generation energy technologies require improved methods for rapid and efficient
chemical-to-electrical energy transformations. One new approach has been to include …

The electrocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction is greatly enhanced for Co complexes with
pyridyldiimine-based ligands through the stepwise integration of three synergistic …

Large oriented electric fields spontaneously arise at all solid–liquid interfaces via the
exchange of ions and/or electrons with the solution. Although intrinsic electric fields are …

The electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is a promising strategy for converting
CO2 to fuels and value-added chemicals using renewable energy sources. Molecular …