Catalyst synthesis articles within Nature Materials

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• Article | 23 May 2022

  A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs

  Single-atom catalysts demonstrate enhanced catalytic properties, but most systems only explore combinations of a few different metals. Here, a library of 37 different elements is investigated, and it is shown that loading 12 metallic atoms in one system presents improved electrochemical activity.

  • Lili Han
  • , Hao Cheng
  •  & Huolin L. Xin

• News & Views | 03 May 2022

  Two become one

  Double-shelled hollow spheres comprising of different catalytic materials are shown to enhance the efficiency of catalytic processes for the selective conversion of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to gasoline.

  • Michael Claeys

• News & Views | 21 September 2020

  Look beneath the surface

  Zeolitic catalyst particles are grown with nanosized fins that improve mass transport into the interior of the particle. This delays catalyst deactivation in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons process.

  • German Sastre

• Article | 10 August 2020

  Finned zeolite catalysts

  Nanosized zeolites enable better catalytic performance; however, their synthesis is non-trivial. Here, a simple treatment is presented that enables the growth of nanosized fins on zeolites that act as pseudo-nanoparticles, reducing deactivation rates for methanol-to-hydrocarbon catalysis.

  • Heng Dai
  • , Yufeng Shen
  •  & Jeffrey D. Rimer

• Letter | 16 November 2015

  Spatially orthogonal chemical functionalization of a hierarchical pore network for catalytic cascade reactions

  Porous materials functionalized with catalytic metals typically possess single catalytic functionalities. The hierarchical ordering of porous silica for directed transport between compartmentalized catalytic regions is presented.

  • Christopher M. A. Parlett
  • , Mark A. Isaacs
  •  & Adam F. Lee

• Letter | 23 October 2011

  Catalytically highly active top gold atom on palladium nanocluster

  Different mechanistic processes explaining the catalytic activities of supported gold catalysts have been proposed. Au–Pd colloidal nanoclusters are now shown to exhibit high catalytic activity owing to an abundance of negatively charged Au atoms on the surface.

  • Haijun Zhang
  • , Tatsuya Watanabe
  •  & Naoki Toshima