Owing to their immense potential in energy conversion and storage, catalysis,
photocatalysis, adsorption, separation and life science applications, significant interest has …

Understanding the relations between the formation, structure, dynamics and functionality of
complex synthetic materials is one of the great challenges in chemistry and nanotechnology …

Propene is a key building block for the petrochemical industry whose demand is increasing
strongly in recent years, even faster than that of ethene. The availability of propene is limited …

Zeolites are among the most environmentally friendly materials produced industrially at the
Megaton scale. They find numerous commercial applications, particularly in catalysis …

Nanomaterials exhibit structural and functional heterogeneity among individual
nanoparticles, thus requiring a capability to study single nanoparticles. While electron …

Zeolites have been successfully employed in many catalytic reactions of industrial
relevance. The severe conditions required in some processes, where high temperatures are …

The critical role in surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis of metal atoms with low
coordination numbers, such as found at atomic steps and surface defects, is firmly …

Conspectus Thirty years ago, George A. Olah proposed the concept of the methanol
economy, where methanol replaces fossil fuels as a means of energy storage, ground …

Photoluminescence (PL) of organo-metal halide perovskite semiconductors can be
enhanced by several orders of magnitude by exposure to visible light. We applied PL …

Optical super-resolution imaging has gained momentum in investigations of heterogeneous
and homogeneous chemical reactions at the single-molecule level. Thanks to its exceptional …