Recent advances in activating surface reconstruction for the high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction

L Gao, X Cui, CD Sewell, J Li, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A climax in the development of cost-effective and high-efficiency transition metal-based
electrocatalysts has been witnessed recently for sustainable energy and related conversion …

In situ and operando electron microscopy in heterogeneous catalysis—insights into multi-scale chemical dynamics

SW Chee, T Lunkenbein, R Schlögl… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This review features state-of-the-art in situ and operando electron microscopy (EM) studies
of heterogeneous catalysts in gas and liquid environments during reaction. Heterogeneous …

Metastable nickel–oxygen species modulate rate oscillations during dry reforming of methane

L Sandoval-Diaz, D Cruz, M Vuijk, G Ducci… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
When a heterogeneous catalyst is active, it forms metastable structures that constantly
transform into each other. These structures contribute differently to the catalytic function …

Synthesis of n-butanol-rich C3+ alcohols by direct CO2 hydrogenation over a stable Cu–Co tandem catalyst

M Irshad, HJ Chun, MK Khan, H Jo, SK Kim… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The direct conversion of CO 2 into liquid fuels and chemical heterogeneous catalysts is
considered a promising route to mitigate global warming issues. However, the production of …

Roadmap on exsolution for energy applications

D Neagu, JTS Irvine, J Wang, B Yildiz… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, exsolution has emerged as a powerful new method for decorating
oxide supports with uniformly dispersed nanoparticles for energy and catalytic applications …

On the Activity/Selectivity and Phase Stability of Thermally Grown Copper Oxides during the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2

JJ Velasco-Vélez, CH Chuang, D Gao, Q Zhu… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Revealing the active nature of oxide-derived copper is of key importance to understand its
remarkable catalytic performance during the cathodic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to …

Stroboscopic operando spectroscopy of the dynamics in heterogeneous catalysis by event-averaging

J Knudsen, T Gallo, V Boix, MD Strømsheim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalyst surfaces are dynamic entities that respond rapidly to changes in
their local gas environment, and the dynamics of the response is a decisive factor for the …

Phase coexistence and structural dynamics of redox metal catalysts revealed by operando TEM

X Huang, T Jones, A Fedorov, R Farra… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal catalysts play an important role in industrial redox reactions. Although extensively
studied, the state of these catalysts under operating conditions is largely unknown, and …

Accessing complex reconstructed material structures with hybrid global optimization accelerated via on-the-fly machine learning

X Shi, D Cheng, R Zhao, G Zhang, S Wu, S Zhen… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The complex reconstructed structure of materials can be revealed by global optimization.
This paper describes a hybrid evolutionary algorithm (HEA) that combines differential …

Atomic origin of the autocatalytic reduction of monoclinic CuO in a hydrogen atmosphere

X Sun, D Wu, W Zhu, X Chen, R Sharma… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Reducibility is key for the use of bulk metal oxides in chemical transformations involving
redox reactions, but probing microscopic processes of oxide reduction is challenging. This is …