Many industrial catalysts contain isolated metal sites on the surface of oxide supports.
Although such catalysts have been used in a broad range of processes for more than 40 …

Model systems are very important to identify the working principles of real catalysts, and to
develop concepts that can be used in the design of new catalytic materials. In this review we …

Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Amorphous materials are widely used as components of solid catalysts and have been the
subject of much applied research. In some instances, their catalytic performance is …

Conspectus Heterogeneous catalysts are complex by nature, making particularly difficult to
assess the structure of their active sites. Such complexity is inherited in part from their mode …

Heterogeneous catalysis for olefin polymerization is one of the most relevant industrial
processes in terms of worldwide diffusion, material volume, and economic turnover. At the …

In the last decade the appearance of progressively more sophisticated codes, together with
the increased computational capabilities, has made XANES a spectroscopic technique able …

Metal oxides, as one of the mostly abundant and widely utilized materials, are extensively
investigated and applied in environmental remediation and protection, and in energy …

Unveiling the nature and the distribution of surface sites in heterogeneous catalysts, and for
the Phillips catalyst (CrO3/SiO2) in particular, is still a grand challenge despite more than 60 …

Two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin silica films have the potential to reach technological
importance in electronics and catalysis. Several well-defined 2D-silica structures have been …