Cooperative coupling of oxidative organic synthesis and hydrogen production over semiconductor-based photocatalysts

MY Qi, M Conte, M Anpo, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Merging hydrogen (H2) evolution with oxidative organic synthesis in a semiconductor-
mediated photoredox reaction is extremely attractive because the clean H2 fuel and high …

Encapsulated metal nanoparticles for catalysis

C Gao, F Lyu, Y Yin - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal nanoparticles have drawn great attention in heterogeneous catalysis. One challenge
is that they are easily deactivated by migration-coalescence during the catalysis process …

Protruding Pt single-sites on hexagonal ZnIn2S4 to accelerate photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

X Shi, C Dai, X Wang, J Hu, J Zhang, L Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-site cocatalysts engineered on supports offer a cost-efficient pathway to utilize
precious metals, yet improving the performance further with minimal catalyst loading is still …

Synergy between Palladium Single Atoms and Nanoparticles via Hydrogen Spillover for Enhancing CO2 Photoreduction to CH4

P Liu, Z Huang, X Gao, X Hong, J Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Selective photoreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon‐neutral fuels such as
methane (CH4) is extremely desirable but remains a challenge since sluggish multiple …

Efficient and Direct Functionalization of Allylic sp3 C−H Bonds with Concomitant CO2 Reduction

MY Qi, YJ Xu - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven CO2 reduction integrated with C− C/C− X bond‐forming organic synthesis
represents a substantially untapped opportunity to simultaneously tackle carbon neutrality …

Engineering semiconductor quantum dots for selectivity switch on high-performance heterogeneous coupling photosynthesis

MY Qi, M Conte, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor-based photoredox catalysis brings an innovative strategy for sustainable
organic transformation (eg, C–C/C–X bond formation), via radical coupling under mild …

Optical properties and applications of plasmonic‐metal nanoparticles

L Wang, M Hasanzadeh Kafshgari… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Noble metal nanoparticles due to their unique optical properties arising from their
interactions with an incident light have been intensively employed in a broad range of …

Recent advances in photoelectrochemical sensing: from engineered photoactive materials to sensing devices and detection modes

J Shu, D Tang - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Sensing technology is one of the three pillars of information industry, which can monitor the
specific event and transform it into a readable signal according to a certain law with specific …

Near field scattering optical model-based catalyst design for artificial photoredox transformation

MY Qi, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
The sun offers a clean and renewable energy cornucopia, whereas how to utilize this
inexhaustible yet decentralized energy with the assistance of appropriate media is an …

Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions

C Zhan, J Yi, S Hu, XG Zhang, DY Wu… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions (PMCRs) are processes that make use of
nanostructure-based surface plasmons as mediators to redistribute and convert photon …