In recent years, the field of catalysis has experienced an astonishing transformation, driven
in part by more demanding environmental standards and critical societal and industrial …

Exciting new opportunities are emerging in the field of catalysis based on nanotechnology
approaches. A new understanding and mastery of catalysis could have broad societal …

Understanding Ostwald ripening and disintegration of supported metal particles under
operating conditions has been of central importance in the study of sintering and dispersion …

This critical review describes the reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts from the point of view
of four simple, but essential for Chemistry, molecules (namely dihydrogen, carbon …

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy undoubtedly represents one of the most important tools in
catalysis research. In this review, recent catalytic applications of the most popular IR …

Density functional theory (DFT) and infrared spectroscopy results are combined with
mechanism-based rate equations to assess the structure and thermodynamics of …

Five alumina-supported palladium catalysts have been prepared from a range of precursor
compounds [palladium (II) nitrate, palladium (II) chloride, palladium (II) acetylacetonate, and …

Heterogeneous catalysts are highly complex materials with respect to both their composition
and structure. The reaction kinetics on their surfaces is known to depend sensitively on …

Adsorption of CO on nanosize Pd particles was studied theoretically by density functional
method and spectroscopically by means of infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy …

Materials making use of thin ionic liquid (IL) films as support‐modifying functional layer open
up a variety of new possibilities in heterogeneous catalysis, which range from the tailoring of …