A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

Catalytic transfer hydrogenation (CTH) has recently emerged as a highly attractive approach
for achieving biomass-based hydrogenation due to its avoidance of high-pressure fossil …

Ligand utilization is a necessary and powerful technique for the colloidal synthesis of
nanoparticles (NPs) with controllable sizes and regulated morphologies. For catalysis …

Selective hydrogenation reactions provide a pivotal and promising strategy for upgrading
substances with unsaturated functional groups, in which supported non-noble metal …

Furfural has been considered as one of the most promising platform molecules directly
derived from biomass. The hydrogenation of furfural is one of the most versatile reactions to …

Selective hydrogenation of biomass to value-added products plays a crucial role in the
development of renewable energy resources. Herein, two heterogonous Ni catalysts …

The selective hydrogenation of furfural (a biomass-derived platform compound, CO versus
CC) is an important reaction for the production of chemical intermediates widely used in the …

A facile, yet highly efficient, catalytic system was developed for the catalytic transfer
hydrogenation (CTH) of biomass-derived furfural (FF) to furfuryl alcohol (FAOL) over …

In this study, ultrasmall Ni nanoparticles (Ni NPs) were controllably supported in the cage-
type mesopores of− COOH-functionalized mesoporous silica SBA-16 (denoted as Ni (x) …

In this study we report an efficient CuCo bimetallic catalyst with highly dispersed CuCo-
based mixed metal/metal oxide on porous carbon matrix for the hydrogenation of furfural to …