Dilute alloys based on Au, Ag, or Cu for efficient catalysis: from synthesis to active sites

JD Lee, JB Miller, AV Shneidman, L Sun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of new catalyst materials for energy-efficient chemical synthesis is critical
as over 80% of industrial processes rely on catalysts, with many of the most energy-intensive …

Nanoporous gold: From structure evolution to functional properties in catalysis and electrochemistry

G Wittstock, M Bäumer, W Dononelli… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoporous gold (NPG) is characterized by a bicontinuous network of nanometer-sized
metallic struts and interconnected pores formed spontaneously by oxidative dissolution of …

O2 Activation by Metal Surfaces: Implications for Bonding and Reactivity on Heterogeneous Catalysts

MM Montemore, MA Van Spronsen, RJ Madix… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The activation of O2 on metal surfaces is a critical process for heterogeneous catalysis and
materials oxidation. Fundamental studies of well-defined metal surfaces using a variety of …

Heterogeneous catalysis: a central science for a sustainable future

CM Friend, B Xu - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Developing active, selective, and energy efficient heterogeneous catalytic processes is key
to a sustainable future because heterogeneous catalysis is at the center of the chemicals …

Dynamic transformation between bilayer islands and dinuclear clusters of Cr oxide on Au (111) through environment and interface effects

Z Yi, L Lin, Y Chang, X Luo, J Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Dynamic control of oxide nanostructures is crucial for the design of advanced oxide
catalysts, which is also significant for understanding the active site and reaction mechanism …

Selective oxygen-assisted reactions of alcohols and amines catalyzed by metallic gold: Paradigms for the design of catalytic processes

ML Personick, RJ Madix, CM Friend - ACS Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metallic gold has emerged as a highly successful catalyst for selective oxygen-assisted
coupling reactions of alcohols and amines to yield industrially important classes of …

Observation and identification of an atomic oxygen structure on catalytic gold nanoparticles

K Liu, T Chen, S He, JP Robbins… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between oxygen and gold surfaces are fundamentally important in diverse
areas of science and technology. In this work, an oxygen dimer structure was observed and …

Oxygen-driven surface evolution of nanoporous gold: insights from ab initio molecular dynamics and auger electron spectroscopy

Y Li, W Dononelli, R Moreira, T Risse… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanoporous gold (np-Au) has recently emerged as a highly selective environmentally
friendly catalyst for low-temperature applications. Despite the seeming simplicity of this …

Redox-active ligand controlled selectivity of vanadium oxidation on Au (100)

CD Tempas, TW Morris, DL Wisman, D Le, NU Din… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic coordination networks at surfaces, formed by on-surface redox assembly, are
of interest for designing specific and selective chemical function at surfaces for …

What changes on the inverse catalyst? Insights from CO oxidation on Au-supported ceria nanoparticles using Ab initio molecular dynamics

Y Li, S Li, M Bäumer, EA Ivanova-Shor… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gold-supported ceria nanoparticles (CeO x/Au), constituting an inverse system with respect
to the more commonly studied ceria-supported gold nanoparticles, were previously …