Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

Intermetallic Nanocrystals for Fuel-Cells-Based Electrocatalysis

F Lin, M Li, L Zeng, M Luo, S Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis underpins the renewable electrochemical conversions for sustainability,
which further replies on metallic nanocrystals as vital electrocatalysts. Intermetallic …

High‐entropy intermetallic PtRhBiSnSb nanoplates for highly efficient alcohol oxidation electrocatalysis

W Chen, S Luo, M Sun, X Wu, Y Zhou, Y Liao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The control of multimetallic ensembles at the atomic‐level is challenging, especially for high‐
entropy alloys (HEAs) possessing five or more elements. Herein, the one‐pot synthesis of …

High-entropy alloys in electrocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprising five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions have attracted ever increasing attention for their distinctive properties, such as …

Electrosynthesis of polymer-grade ethylene via acetylene semihydrogenation over undercoordinated Cu nanodots

W Xue, X Liu, C Liu, X Zhang, J Li, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of acetylene impurities remains important yet challenging to the ethylene
downstream industry. Current thermocatalytic semihydrogenation processes require high …

Hydrogenated borophene enabled synthesis of multielement intermetallic catalysts

X Zeng, Y Jing, S Gao, W Zhang, Y Zhang, H Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Supported metal catalysts often suffer from rapid degradation under harsh conditions due to
material failure and weak metal-support interaction. Here we propose using reductive …

Ordered Mesoporous High‐Entropy Intermetallics for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis

Y Wang, XY Zhang, H He, JJ Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy alloys (HEAs) have offered wide opportunities for materials discovery, property
optimization, and application exploration. In spite of some encouraging progress …

Unveiling the origin of enhanced catalytic performance of NiCu alloy for semi-hydrogenation of acetylene

Z Li, J Zhang, J Tian, K Feng, Z Jiang, B Yan - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ni-based bimetallic catalysts are widely explored for semi-hydrogenation of acetylene due to
their enhanced catalytic performance. However, the comprehensive understanding of …

Semi-ordered high entropy materials: The case of high entropy intermetallic compounds

AO Moghaddam, R Fereidonnejad, A Cabot - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Intermetallic compounds (ICs) have been actively investigated since the early twentieth
century due to their high strength, especially at high temperatures, as well as a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in advanced catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogenation of organics in aqueous conditions

Y Zeng, M Zhao, H Zeng, Q Jiang, F Ming, K Xi, Z Wang… - eScience, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) of organics using water as hydrogen donors has been
regarded as a green organic reduction technique to replace traditional chemical reactions …