Adsorption energy in oxygen electrocatalysis

J Zhang, HB Yang, D Zhou, B Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Adsorption energy (AE) of reactive intermediate is currently the most important descriptor for
electrochemical reactions (eg, water electrolysis, hydrogen fuel cell, electrochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing complexity in catalyst design: From volcanos and scaling to more sophisticated design strategies

SM Stratton, S Zhang, MM Montemore - Surface Science Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Volcano plots and scaling relations are commonly used to design catalysts and understand
catalytic behavior. These plots are a useful tool due to their robust and simple analysis of …

Rational Modulation of Interface Microenvironment and Design of the Flow Electrolyzer for COx Electroreduction to Alcohol

J Chen, X Peng, Z Li, B Yang, Q Zhang, J Lu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The electrocatalytic reduction of COx (including CO2 and CO) into value‐added fuels and
chemicals, particularly multi‐carbon (C2+) alcohols, presents a significant opportunity to …

Accelerating explicit solvent models of heterogeneous catalysts with machine learning interatomic potentials

BWJ Chen, X Zhang, J Zhang - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Realistically modelling how solvents affect catalytic reactions is a longstanding challenge
due to its prohibitive computational cost. Typically, an explicit atomistic treatment of the …

Hydrogen spillover‐enhanced heterogeneously catalyzed hydrodeoxygenation for biomass upgrading

Y Geng, H Li - ChemSusChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) is regarded as a promising technology for biomass upgrading
to obtain sustainable and competitive chemicals and fuels. In fact, biomass HDO over …

The application of QM/MM simulations in heterogeneous catalysis

GA Bramley, OT Beynon, PV Stishenko… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The QM/MM simulation method is provenly efficient for the simulation of biological systems,
where an interplay of extensive environment and delicate local interactions drives a process …

Liquid-phase effects on adsorption processes in heterogeneous catalysis

M Zare, MS Saleheen, N Singh, MJ Uline, M Faheem… - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous solvation free energies of adsorption have recently been measured for phenol
adsorption on Pt (111). Endergonic solvent effects of∼ 1 eV suggest solvents dramatically …

Addressing dynamics at catalytic heterogeneous interfaces with DFT-MD: anomalous temperature distributions from commonly used thermostats

V Korpelin, T Kiljunen, MM Melander… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory-based molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) has been widely used for
studying the chemistry of heterogeneous interfacial systems under operational conditions …

Stay Hydrated! Impact of Solvation Phenomena on the CO2 Reduction Reaction at Pb(100) and Ag(100) surfaces

O Cheong, T Bornhake, X Zhu, MH Eikerling - ChemSusChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, a comprehensive computational study of the impact of solvation on the reduction
reaction of CO2 to formic acid (HCOOH) and carbon monoxide on Pb (100) and Ag (100) …

Understanding the influence of solvents on the Pt-catalyzed hydrodeoxygenation of guaiacol

M Saleheen, O Mamun, AM Verma, D Sahsah… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bio-oil derived from fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass needs to be deoxygenated to
become a substitute for petroleum fuels. Here, we study the hydrodeoxygenation …