Activity and selectivity trends in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction on transition metals

JX Liu, D Richards, N Singh, BR Goldsmith - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic reduction is a promising approach to remediate nitrate (NO3–), one of the
world's most widespread water pollutants. In the present work, we elucidate activity and …

Identifying the key obstacle in photocatalytic oxygen evolution on rutile TiO2

D Wang, T Sheng, J Chen, HF Wang, P Hu - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
As the bottleneck in photocatalytic water splitting, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has
drawn huge attention, but its efficiency still falls short of expectations. A widely accepted …

Toward computational design of chemical reactions with reaction phase diagram

C Guo, X Fu, J Long, H Li, G Qin, A Cao… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Density functional theory (DFT) was rapidly developed and achieved a great success in the
last decades. As the advancement of general concepts in heterogeneous catalysis …

Revealing the Size Effect of Platinum Cocatalyst for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution on TiO2 Support: A DFT Study

D Wang, ZP Liu, WM Yang - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
In heterogeneous catalysis metal particle morphology and size can influence markedly the
activity, both in heat-driven and in electro-photocatalytic conditions. Because of the intimate …

Theory and applications of surface micro‐kinetics in the rational design of catalysts using density functional theory calculations

Y Mao, HF Wang, P Hu - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rational design of catalysts has long been an important and challenging goal in
heterogeneous catalysis. To achieve this target, density functional theory (DFT) calculations …

CATKINAS: a large‐scale catalytic microkinetic analysis software for mechanism auto‐analysis and catalyst screening

J Chen, M Jia, P Hu, H Wang - Journal of Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As an effective method to analyze complex catalytic reaction networks, microkinetic
modeling is gaining increasing popularity in the catalytic activity evaluation and rational …

Resolving the Intricate Mechanism and Selectivity of Syngas Conversion on Reduced ZnCr2Ox: A Quantitative Study from DFT and Microkinetic Simulations

Z Lai, N Sun, J Jin, J Chen, H Wang, P Hu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
By combining reduced oxide and zeolite (eg, ZnCrO x/MSAPO), bifunctional catalysts
achieve outstanding olefin selectivity for syngas conversion via a relay process (CO+ H2→ …

Resolving the Active Role of Isolated Transition Metal Species in Ni-Based Catalysts for Dry Reforming of Methane

C Zhou, Y Zhang, B Li, B Yang, L Li - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ni-based catalysts have demonstrated high catalytic activity and stability toward the dry
reforming of methane (DRM). However, the nature of the active sites and the origin of high …

Bubble-water/catalyst triphase interface microenvironment accelerates photocatalytic OER via optimizing semi-hydrophobic OH radical

G Ren, M Zhou, P Hu, JF Chen, H Wang - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) as the holy grail reaction for solar-to-chemical energy
conversion is challenged by sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at water/catalyst …

Topology-determined structural genes enable data-driven discovery and intelligent design of potential metal oxides for inert C–H bond activation

C Zhou, C Chen, P Hu, H Wang - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The identification of appropriate structural genes that influence the active-site configuration
for a given reaction is critical for discovering potential catalysts with reduced reaction …