Diamond is the hardest natural material, boasting a variety of remarkable properties.
However, due to increased demand and technological advancements, natural diamond has …

A new generation of experimental techniques quantifies the gas–surface reactivity of
polyatomic reactants prepared in a single quantum state. These experiments eliminate …

Many chemical methods have been developed to favor a particular product in
transformations of compounds that have two or more reactive sites. We explored a different …

An in-depth understanding of the surface properties–activity relationship could provide a
fundamental guidance for the design of highly efficient perovskite-based catalysts for the …

Coupling vibrational transitions to resonant optical modes creates vibrational polaritons
shifted from the uncoupled molecular resonances and provides a convenient way to modify …

Plasma-assisted catalysis is the process of electrically activating gases in the plasma-phase
at low temperatures and ambient pressure to drive reactions on catalyst surfaces. Plasma …

We review the state-of-the-art in the theory of dissociative chemisorption (DC) of small gas
phase molecules on metal surfaces, which is important to modeling heterogeneous catalysis …

Water dissociation on transition-metal catalysts is an important step in steam reforming and
the water-gas shift reaction. To probe the effect of translational and vibrational activation on …

Solar thermochemical approaches to CO2 and H2O splitting have emerged as an attractive
pathway to solar fuel production. However, efficiently producing solar fuel with high redox …

Accurate barriers for rate controlling elementary reactions on metal surfaces are key to
understanding, controlling, and predicting the rate of heterogeneously catalyzed processes …