A practical guide to surface kinetic Monte Carlo simulations

M Andersen, C Panosetti, K Reuter - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
This review article is intended as a practical guide for newcomers to the field of kinetic Monte
Carlo (KMC) simulations, and specifically to lattice KMC simulations as prevalently used for …

Improving the intrinsic activity of electrocatalysts for sustainable energy conversion: where are we and where can we go?

N Govindarajan, G Kastlunger, HH Heenen… - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As we are in the midst of a climate crisis, there is an urgent need to transition to the
sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. A promising strategy towards this transition is …

Continuous-flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation

X Fu, JB Pedersen, Y Zhou, M Saccoccio, S Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ammonia is a critical component in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, and fine chemicals and is an
ideal, carbon-free fuel. Recently, lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction has proven to be a …

Sulfur vacancy-rich MoS2 as a catalyst for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol

J Hu, L Yu, J Deng, Y Wang, K Cheng, C Ma… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The low-temperature hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol is of great significance for the
recycling of this greenhouse gas to valuable products, however, it remains a great challenge …

Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts

S Vijay, W Ju, S Brückner, SC Tsang, P Strasser… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO is the simplest product from CO2 electroreduction (CO2R), but the identity and nature of
its rate-limiting step remain controversial. Here we investigate the activity of transition metals …

Transformation of the active moiety in phosphorus-doped fe–n–c for highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction

J Roh, A Cho, S Kim, KS Lee, J Shin, JS Choi… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Iron-and nitrogen-doped carbon (Fe–N–C) materials have been suggested as the most
promising replacement for Pt-based catalysts in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) owing …

Heterogeneous Fe3 single-cluster catalyst for ammonia synthesis via an associative mechanism

JC Liu, XL Ma, Y Li, YG Wang, H Xiao, J Li - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The current industrial ammonia synthesis relies on Haber–Bosch process that is initiated by
the dissociative mechanism, in which the adsorbed N2 dissociates directly, and thus is …

pH effects on the electrochemical reduction of CO(2) towards C2 products on stepped copper

X Liu, P Schlexer, J Xiao, Y Ji, L Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We present a microkinetic model for CO (2) reduction (CO (2) R) on Cu (211) towards C2
products, based on energetics estimated from an explicit solvent model. We show that the …

Toward Sabatier optimal for ammonia synthesis with paramagnetic phase of ferromagnetic transition metal catalysts

G Xu, C Cai, T Wang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Sabatier principle defines the essential criteria for being an ideal catalyst in
heterogeneous catalysis, while approaching the Sabatier optimal is a major pursuit in …

Trends in oxygenate/hydrocarbon selectivity for electrochemical CO(2) reduction to C2 products

HJ Peng, MT Tang, J Halldin Stenlid, X Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The electrochemical conversion of carbon di-/monoxide into commodity chemicals paves a
way towards a sustainable society but it also presents one of the great challenges in …