Bimetallic sites for catalysis: from binuclear metal sites to bimetallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

Oxygen vacancies in a catalyst for VOCs oxidation: synthesis, characterization, and catalytic effects

Y Zheng, K Fu, Z Yu, Y Su, R Han, Q Liu - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as a significant contributor to atmospheric pollution
such as ozone pollution and PM2. 5, bring about serious harm to the environment and …

Atomically dispersed antimony on carbon nitride for the artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide

Z Teng, Q Zhang, H Yang, K Kato, W Yang, YR Lu… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Artificial photosynthesis offers a promising strategy to produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)—
an environmentally friendly oxidant and a clean fuel. However, the low activity and selectivity …

Nanoarchitectonics of metallene materials for electrocatalysis

B Jiang, Y Guo, F Sun, S Wang, Y Kang, X Xu, J Zhao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlling the synthesis of metal nanostructures is one approach for catalyst engineering
and performance optimization in electrocatalysis. As an emerging class of unconventional …

Oxygen-vacancy-induced O2 activation and electron-hole migration enhance photothermal catalytic toluene oxidation

Y Yang, S Zhao, F Bi, J Chen, Y Li, L Cui, J Xu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
The rapid elimination of volatile organic compounds and the intermediate analysis with
efficient photothermal catalysis are of great significance to the environment. Oxygen …

Surface Boronizing Can Weaken the Excitonic Effects of BiOBr Nanosheets for Efficient O2 Activation and Selective NO Oxidation under Visible Light Irradiation

Y Shi, Z Yang, L Shi, H Li, X Liu, X Zhang… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The photocatalytic O2 activation for pollutant removal highly depends on the controlled
generation of desired reactive oxygen species (ROS). Herein, we demonstrate that the …

Toward active-site tailoring in heterogeneous catalysis by atomically precise metal nanoclusters with crystallographic structures

R Jin, G Li, S Sharma, Y Li, X Du - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis involves solid-state catalysts, among which metal nanoparticles
occupy an important position. Unfortunately, no two nanoparticles from conventional …

Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis

X Li, S Mitchell, Y Fang, J Li, J Perez-Ramirez… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Heterogeneous single-cluster catalysts (SCCs) comprising atomically precise and isolated
metal clusters stabilized on appropriately chosen supports offer exciting prospects for …

Glucose-oxidase like catalytic mechanism of noble metal nanozymes

J Chen, Q Ma, M Li, D Chao, L Huang, W Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Au nanoparticles (NPs) have been found to be excellent glucose oxidase mimics, while the
catalytic processes have rarely been studied. Here, we reveal that the process of glucose …

Identifying luminol electrochemiluminescence at the cathode via single-atom catalysts tuned oxygen reduction reaction

H Xia, X Zheng, J Li, L Wang, Y Xue… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Luminol-based electrochemiluminescence (ECL) can be readily excited by various reactive
oxygen species (ROS) electrogenerated with an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However …