Increasing the selectivity of the catalytic hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes is of major
importance for the processing of petrochemicals and the production of fine chemicals …

Selective hydrogenation of acetylene is an important reaction for production of polymer
grade ethylene. The green oil formation has great influence on the selectivity and activity of …

Highly dilute alloys of platinum group metals (PGMs: Pt, Rh, Ir, Pd, and Ni) with coinage
metals (Cu, Au, and Ag) serve as highly selective and coke-resistant catalysts in a number of …

As one of the essential processes in the energy industry, acetylene hydrogenation reactions
have been studied extensively in both experiment and theory. However, the fundamentals of …

Restructuring of alloy surfaces induced by strongly bound adsorbates is a well-established
phenomenon occurring in catalysis and membrane science. In catalytic processes, this …

Researchers have been attempting to characterize heterogeneous catalysts in situ in
addition to correlating their structures with their activity and selectivity in spite of many …

The local coordination environment of anchoring single-atom metal is the design core of
single-atom catalysts (SACs). In this study, several kinds of single-atom M (M= Co, Ni, Cu, Pt …

Catalysis is a kinetics behavior, and developing the kinetics-assisted discrimination of the
active sites is an important yet challenging issue in the heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we …

The space region of metal active site and metal types and ratios plays a crucial role in tuning
product selectivity based on the molecule size of target product and by-product. This work …

The surface structure of the catalyst is a key factor to affect its catalytic performance toward
the targeted reaction. In this work, aiming at revealing the surface structure influences of Pd …