Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges

H Li, HA Aguirre-Villegas, RD Allen, X Bai… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Less than 10% of the plastics generated globally are recycled, while the rest are incinerated,
accumulated in landfills, or leak into the environment. New technologies are emerging to …

The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis

C Vogt, BM Weckhuysen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Catalysis is at the core of chemistry and has been essential to make all the goods
surrounding us, including fuels, coatings, plastics and other functional materials. In the near …

High-entropy alloys as a platform for catalysis: progress, challenges, and opportunities

Y Xin, S Li, Y Qian, W Zhu, H Yuan, P Jiang, R Guo… - Acs …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High-entropy alloys (HEAs), which are defined as near-equimolar alloys of five or more
elements, are attracting ever increasing attention because of the unique properties in a …

General design concept for single‐atom catalysts toward heterogeneous catalysis

W Guo, Z Wang, X Wang, Y Wu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a new and popular material, single‐atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit excellent activity,
selectivity, and stability for numerous important reactions, and show great potential in …

Exceptional electrochemical HER performance with enhanced electron transfer between Ru nanoparticles and single atoms dispersed on a carbon substrate

P Su, W Pei, X Wang, Y Ma, Q Jiang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precisely regulating the electronic structures of metal active species is highly desirable for
electrocatalysis. However, carbon with inert surface provide weak metal–support interaction …

Surface coordination chemistry of atomically dispersed metal catalysts

R Qin, K Liu, Q Wu, N Zheng - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Atomically dispersed metal catalysts (ADCs), as an emerging class of heterogeneous
catalysts, have been widely investigated during the past two decades. The atomic dispersion …

Formation of active sites on transition metals through reaction-driven migration of surface atoms

L Xu, KG Papanikolaou, BAJ Lechner, L Je… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Adopting low-index single-crystal surfaces as models for metal nanoparticle catalysts has
been questioned by the experimental findings of adsorbate-induced formation of …

Promoting exsolution of RuFe alloy nanoparticles on Sr2Fe1.4Ru0.1Mo0.5O6−δ via repeated redox manipulations for CO2 electrolysis

H Lv, L Lin, X Zhang, R Li, Y Song… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Metal nanoparticles anchored on perovskite through in situ exsolution under reducing
atmosphere provide catalytically active metal/oxide interfaces for CO2 electrolysis in solid …

Microkinetic modeling: a tool for rational catalyst design

AH Motagamwala, JA Dumesic - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The design of heterogeneous catalysts relies on understanding the fundamental surface
kinetics that controls catalyst performance, and microkinetic modeling is a tool that can help …

Spillover in heterogeneous catalysis: new insights and opportunities

M Xiong, Z Gao, Y Qin - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spillover is a well-known phenomenon in heterogeneous catalysis and is involved in many
important reactions. The establishment of the spillover concept opened up a new research …