The critical impacts of ligands on heterogeneous nanocatalysis: A review

L Lu, S Zou, B Fang - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ligand utilization is a necessary and powerful technique for the colloidal synthesis of
nanoparticles (NPs) with controllable sizes and regulated morphologies. For catalysis …

Surface‐Functionalized Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis

G Martí, L Mallón, N Romero, L Francàs… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Analogously to enzymatic catalysis, where the active metal sites and their environment are
controlled by protein residues, the catalytic properties of metal nanoparticles (NPs) can be …

An inclusive review on the synthesis of molybdenum carbide and its hybrids as catalyst for electrochemical water splitting

O Rabi, E Pervaiz, R Zahra, M Ali, MBK Niazi - Molecular Catalysis, 2020 - Elsevier
The world is using lot of fossil fuels due to increase in energy demand. This results in high
production of CO 2 which is the main reason for global warming and harmful for the …

Probing single-particle electrocatalytic activity at facet-controlled gold nanocrystals

M Choi, NP Siepser, S Jeong, Y Wang, G Jagdale… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic reduction reactions (ie, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen
reduction reaction) at individual, faceted Au nanocubes (NCs) and nano-octahedra (ODs) …

A Large-Scalable, Surfactant-Free, and Ultrastable Ru-Doped Pt3Co Oxygen Reduction Catalyst

Y Zhu, J Peng, X Zhu, L Bu, Q Shao, CW Pao, Z Hu… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Developing a large-scale method to produce platinum (Pt)-based electrocatalysts for the
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is highly desirable to propel the commercialization of the …

Colloidal nanocrystals as electrocatalysts with tunable activity and selectivity

YT Guntern, V Okatenko, J Pankhurst, SB Varandili… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Correlating the catalyst activity, selectivity, and stability with its structure and composition is
of the utmost importance in advancing the knowledge of heterogeneous electrocatalytic …

Axial coordination modification of M–N 4 single-atom catalysts to regulate the electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction reaction

M Ma, Q Tang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Earth-abundant Fe, Co, Ni based single-atom catalysts (SACs) show great promise in
catalyzing the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to CO, yet the reaction …

Thiol-functionalized PCN-222 MOF for fast and selective extraction of gold ions from aqueous media

S Nazri, M Khajeh, AR Oveisi, R Luque… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the growing demand of gold for research laboratories and industrial technologies, there
is high needed to extract gold from related waste other than natural resources. Herein, we …

Solvent-free mechanochemical synthesis of ultrasmall nickel phosphide nanoparticles and their application as a catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)

BG Fiss, NN Vu, G Douglas, TO Do… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The photocatalytic (PC) splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen has attracted
considerable attention in the past decade. Despite the promise of hydrogen gas as a new …

Perovskite ceramic oxide as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation

Y Xu, X Xu, N Cao, X Wang, X Liu, M Fronzi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3 is an interesting research topic as it provided
an alternative and energy-saving method compared with the traditional way of NH 3 …