Metal catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis: from single atoms to nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Metal species with different size (single atoms, nanoclusters, and nanoparticles) show
different catalytic behavior for various heterogeneous catalytic reactions. It has been shown …

Coordination chemistry on carbon surfaces

MR Axet, O Dechy-Cabaret, J Durand… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
Immobilization of transition metal complexes with catalytic, electronic or luminescent
properties onto solid supports is a theme of intense research. The relatively good knowledge …

Copper Cluster Size Effect in Methanol Synthesis from CO2

B Yang, C Liu, A Halder, EC Tyo… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Size-selected Cu n catalysts (n= 3, 4, 20) were synthesized on Al2O3 thin films using mass-
selected cluster deposition. A systematic study of size and support effects was carried out for …

Atomic layer deposition of a submonolayer catalyst for the enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of water oxidation with hematite

SC Riha, BM Klahr, EC Tyo, S Seifert, S Vajda… - Acs Nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
Hematite photoanodes were coated with an ultrathin cobalt oxide layer by atomic layer
deposition (ALD). The optimal coating 1 ALD cycle, which amounts to< 1 monolayer of Co …

Size-Dependent Subnanometer Pd Cluster (Pd4, Pd6, and Pd17) Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis

G Kwon, GA Ferguson, CJ Heard, EC Tyo, C Yin… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Water oxidation is a key catalytic step for electrical fuel generation. Recently, significant
progress has been made in synthesizing electrocatalytic materials with reduced …

Alumina-supported sub-nanometer Pt 10 clusters: amorphization and role of the support material in a highly active CO oxidation catalyst

C Yin, FR Negreiros, G Barcaro, A Beniya… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic CO oxidation is unveiled on size-selected Pt10 clusters deposited on two very
different ultrathin (≈ 0.5–0.7 nm thick) alumina films:(i) a highly ordered alumina obtained …

Reaction mechanism for direct propylene epoxidation by alumina-supported silver aggregates: the role of the particle/support interface

L Cheng, C Yin, F Mehmood, B Liu, J Greeley… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Subnanometer Ag aggregates on alumina supports have been found to be active toward
direct propylene epoxidation to propylene oxide by molecular oxygen at low temperatures …

Subnanometer cobalt oxide clusters as selective low temperature oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts

S Lee, A Halder, GA Ferguson, S Seifert… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of more efficient, economical, and selective catalysts for oxidative
dehydrogenation is of immense economic importance. However, the temperatures required …

Atomically precise (catalytic) particles synthesized by a novel cluster deposition instrument

C Yin, E Tyo, K Kuchta, B Von Issendorff… - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report a new high vacuum instrument which is dedicated to the preparation of well-
defined clusters supported on model and technologically relevant supports for catalytic and …

Computational design of clusters for catalysis

E Jimenez-Izal, AN Alexandrova - Annual review of physical …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
When small clusters are studied in chemical physics or physical chemistry, one perhaps
thinks of the fundamental aspects of cluster electronic structure, or precision spectroscopy in …