Bimetallic sites for catalysis: from binuclear metal sites to bimetallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

High-entropy nanoparticles: Synthesis-structure-property relationships and data-driven discovery

Y Yao, Q Dong, A Brozena, J Luo, J Miao, M Chi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
High-entropy nanoparticles have become a rapidly growing area of research in recent years.
Because of their multielemental compositions and unique high-entropy mixing states (ie …

A high-entropy atomic environment converts inactive to active sites for electrocatalysis

H Zhu, S Sun, J Hao, Z Zhuang, S Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To understand the mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by high-entropy-alloy (HEA)
electrocatalysts, it has become increasingly crucial to investigate the chemical nature of the …

Unraveling the electronegativity-dominated intermediate adsorption on high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts

J Hao, Z Zhuang, K Cao, G Gao, C Wang, F Lai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-entropy alloys have received considerable attention in the field of catalysis due to their
exceptional properties. However, few studies hitherto focus on the origin of their outstanding …

Machine learning for a sustainable energy future

Z Yao, Y Lum, A Johnston, LM Mejia-Mendoza… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is a critical global challenge; it
demands advances—at the materials, devices and systems levels—for the efficient …

Sulfur-anchoring synthesis of platinum intermetallic nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells

CL Yang, LN Wang, P Yin, J Liu, MX Chen, QQ Yan… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Atomically ordered intermetallic nanoparticles are promising for catalytic applications but are
difficult to produce because the high-temperature annealing required for atom ordering …

Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

Understanding the role of entropy in high entropy oxides

SS Aamlid, M Oudah, J Rottler… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The field of high entropy oxides (HEOs) flips traditional materials science paradigms on their
head by seeking to understand what properties arise in the presence of profound …

The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

High-entropy alloys in electrocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprising five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions have attracted ever increasing attention for their distinctive properties, such as …