[CATL] Division of Catalysis Science & Technology

Division/Committee: [CATL] Division of Catalysis Science & Technology

Ligand-coordinated supported catalysts (LCSCs) are of growing interest for heterogeneous single-atom catalysis. We investigate the effect of the choice of organic ligand on the activity and stability of supported single-atom Pt-ligand catalysts for ethylene hydrogenation…

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an effective green oxidant, which is used in many industrial processes. Here, the reaction mechanism for direct formation of H2O2 from H2 and O2 over Pd catalysts is studied by using density functional theory calculations and mean-field kinetic modeling…

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn) are oxygen-containing diesel fuel additives, which can efficiently reduce NOx and soot emissions. In this work, PolyStyrene with the size of 200-300 nm was prepared by soap-free emulsion polymerization…

Poly (4-styrenesulfonic acid) (PSSA), 2- Naphthalenesulfonic acid (NSA), and 1, 5- Naphthalenedisulfonic acid tetrahydrate (NDSA), and p-toluenesulfonic acid (PTS) were applied as acid catalysts to hydrolyze polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to terephthalic acid (TPA) and ethylene glycol (EG)…

To negate the global warming induced by greenhouse gases, carbon capture and utilization technology such as CO2 hydrogenation has been intensively investigated. And this work studies the promoting effect of Ca in the highly exsolved Ni particles of La1-xCaxNiO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0…

Direct conversion of CO2 into heavy hydrocarbons, especially linear α-olefins, using Fe-based catalysts is proved to be technically and economically promising. In order to increase the mechanical strength and durability of Fe-based catalysts, Al has been widely employed as a structure additive…

Numerous studies have shown that sulfating titania narrows the band gap and improves photocatalytic activity for oxidation of contaminants in water…

Division/Committee: [CATL] Division of Catalysis Science & Technology

Selective oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and acids is important in the production of numerous value-added chemicals. Ethanol is often used a model compound in the development of new selective oxidation processes…

Several extra-framework copper-oxo clusters have been implicated in the conversion of methane to methanol by Cu-exchanged zeolites. The Cu-oxo clusters in the zeolite come in many forms with some of the most active being [Cu3O3]2+ and [Cu2O]2+ species…

Early transition metal polyhedral oligosilsesquioxane (POSS) complexes of tripodal coordination geometry are a largely overlooked class of robust and durable metal complexes that have shown potential as homogeneous catalysts in alkene epoxidations and polymerizations…

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn) have been considered as clean and promising diesel fuel additives due to their favorable properties of high oxygen content and high cetane number…

The chemical industry has been identified as one of the most energy-inefficient sectors by the Department of Energy. Such inefficiency can be addressed either with new catalyst or new reactor designs…

The catalytic activity of water soluble gold-aryl nanoparticles functionalized by carboxylic acid groups (AuNPs) was investigated in the reduction of hexacyanoferrate (III) using sodium borohydride and sodium thiosulfate as reducing agents…

Division/Committee: [CATL] Division of Catalysis Science & Technology

The widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar brings us closer to the eradication of the burning of fossil fuels while still meeting our rapidly growing energy demands…

It remains a grand challenge to transform zero-dimensional (0D) noble-metal building blocks into well-defined two-dimensional (2D) architectures, which normally lacking an intrinsic driving force for anisotropic permutation in 2D manner…

Nitrate ions produced from industrial and agricultural processes have deeply imbalanced the global nitrogen cycle. Electrocatalytic reduction is a sustainable route to remediate nitrate while generating useful products such as NH3 or N2…

There is still a need to discover cheap, active catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This study aims to massively increase the screening rate of catalysts by using parallel computational analysis and a high throughput experimental setup to find active bimetallic catalysts for HER…