Designing sites in heterogeneous catalysis: are we reaching selectivities competitive with those of homogeneous catalysts?

F Zaera - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

Noble metal–metal oxide nanohybrids with tailored nanostructures for efficient solar energy conversion, photocatalysis and environmental remediation

X Liu, J Iocozzia, Y Wang, X Cui, Y Chen… - Energy & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The controlled synthesis of nanohybrids composed of noble metals (Au, Ag, Pt and Pd, as
well as AuAg alloy) and metal oxides (ZnO, TiO2, Cu2O and CeO2) have received …

Recent advances in heterogeneous selective oxidation catalysis for sustainable chemistry

Z Guo, B Liu, Q Zhang, W Deng, Y Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxidation catalysis not only plays a crucial role in the current chemical industry for the
production of key intermediates such as alcohols, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones and organic …

Strong metal–support interactions between gold nanoparticles and nonoxides

H Tang, J Wei, F Liu, B Qiao, X Pan, L Li… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) is of great importance for supported catalysts in
heterogeneous catalysis. We report the first example of SMSI between Au nanoparticles …

Titanium dioxide as a catalyst support in heterogeneous catalysis

S Bagheri, N Muhd Julkapli… - The scientific world …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The lack of stability is a challenge for most heterogeneous catalysts. During operations, the
agglomeration of particles may block the active sites of the catalyst, which is believed to …

Pd nanoparticles for C–C coupling reactions

A Balanta, C Godard, C Claver - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The catalytic formation of C–C bonds is one of the most useful transformations in organic
synthesis. Over the last decade, the use of transition metal nanoparticles (NPs) in catalysis …

Highly reactive {001} facets of TiO 2-based composites: synthesis, formation mechanism and characterization

WJ Ong, LL Tan, SP Chai, ST Yong, AR Mohamed - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most widely investigated metal oxides due to its
extraordinary surface, electronic and catalytic properties. However, the large band gap of …

Sandwich-type immunosensors and immunoassays exploiting nanostructure labels: A review

X Pei, B Zhang, J Tang, B Liu, W Lai, D Tang - Analytica chimica acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Methods based on sandwich-type immunosensors and immunoassays have been
developed for detection of multivalent antigens/analytes with more than one eptiope due to …

Facile in situ synthesis of visible-light plasmonic photocatalysts M@ TiO 2 (M= Au, Pt, Ag) and evaluation of their photocatalytic oxidation of benzene to phenol

Z Zheng, B Huang, X Qin, X Zhang, Y Dai… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We developed a facile in situ method of preparing noble-metal plasmonic photocatalysts
M@ TiO2 (M= Au, Pt, Ag). In this method, the UV irradiation of TiO2 powder dispersed in …

A sacrificial coating strategy toward enhancement of metal–support interaction for ultrastable Au nanocatalysts

W Zhan, Q He, X Liu, Y Guo, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Supported gold (Au) nanocatalysts hold great promise for heterogeneous catalysis;
however, their practical application is greatly hampered by poor thermodynamic stability …