Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

The catalytic conversion of biomass and derivatives to chemicals has been the subject of
intense research efforts during the past decade resulting in a 20% annual increase in the …

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 …

Hydrogen peroxide has been synthesized mainly through the electrocatalytic and
photocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction in recent years. Herein, we synthesize a single …

Carbon plays a dual role as a catalyst or a catalyst support for chemical and enzymatic
biomass transformation reactions due to its large specific surface area, high porosity …

Despite being increasingly used as artificial enzymes, little has been known for the origin of
the pH-switchable peroxidase-like and catalase-like activities of metals. Using calculations …

The Tafel equation is of fundamental importance in electrochemical kinetics, formulating a
quantitative relation between the current and the applied electrochemical potential. The …

Oxidation is a key reaction in organic synthesis and will likely play a significant role in the
development of value-added chemicals from biomass. The application of heterogeneous …

1. INTRODUCTION Bulk gold, being the most stable among all metals, was for many years
considered as an inert catalyst. However, gold particles with size on the scale of nanometers …

Gold has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other arts for thousands of years due to its
stability in air. Catalytic researchers were long misled by this common sense until the …