The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis

Catalysis is a kinetic phenomenon: The legacy of Michel Boudart

(2021) Gerhard Ertl   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF MICHEL BOUDART

(2021) Ricardo B Levy   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Identification of Photoexcited Electron Relaxation in a Cobalt Phosphide Modified Carbon Nitride Photocatalyst

(2021) Guang X. Pei et al.   ChemPhotoChem

3‐D X‐ray Nanotomography Reveals Different Carbon Deposition Mechanisms in a Single Catalyst Particle

(2021) Martin Vesely et al.   ChemCatChem

On the Cobalt Carbide Formation in a Co/TiO2 Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Catalyst as Studied by High-Pressure, Long-Term Operando X-ray Absorption and Diffraction

(2021) Ilse K. van Ravenhorst et al.   ACS Catalysis

Structural transformations of solid electrocatalysts and photocatalysts

(2021) Lichen Liu et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Sub‐second Time‐resolved Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Reveals Dynamic CO Intermediates during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper

(2021) Hongyu An et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Molecular Transition Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts for the Reversible Carbon Dioxide–Carbon Monoxide Transformation

(2021) Dima Azaiza‐Dabbah et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Variable Temperature and Pressure Operando MAS NMR for Catalysis Science and Related Materials

(2020) Nicholas R. Jaegers et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Correlated X-ray Ptychography and Fluorescence Nano-Tomography on the Fragmentation Behavior of an Individual Catalyst Particle during the Early Stages of Olefin Polymerization

(2020) Koen W. Bossers et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Operando X-Ray Spectroscopic Techniques: A Focus on Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions

(2020) Varsha M. V et al.   Frontiers in Chemistry

Operando Nanoscale Sensors in Catalysis: All Eyes on Catalyst Particles

(2020) Thomas Hartman et al.   ACS Nano

In Situ Spectroscopic Methods for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

(2020) Lei Jin et al.   Catalysts

Potential‐dependent Morphology of Copper Catalysts During CO2 Electroreduction Revealed by In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy

(2020) Georg H. Simon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

In Situ Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopy of Water Adsorption on Nano‐Islands of Surface‐Anchored Metal‐Organic Frameworks

(2020) Guusje Delen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Toward Active-Site Tailoring in Heterogeneous Catalysis by Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters with Crystallographic Structures

(2020) Rongchao Jin et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2020) Janis Timoshenko et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Understanding the Activation of ZSM-5 by Phosphorus: Localizing Phosphate Groups in the Pores of Phosphate-Stabilized ZSM-5

(2020) Jaap N. Louwen et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Recent advances in catalysts for the conversion of ethanol to butadiene

(2020) Ismail Bin Samsudin et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Towards a better understanding of Lewis acidic aluminium in zeolites

(2020) Manoj Ravi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A spatially orthogonal hierarchically porous acid–base catalyst for cascade and antagonistic reactions

(2020) Mark A. Isaacs et al.   Nature Catalysis

High-Pressure Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

(2020) Miquel Salmeron et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

In-situ X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure Spectroscopy of a Solid Catalyst using a Laboratory-Based Set-up

(2019) José G. Moya-Cancino et al.   ChemCatChem

Tandem Catalysis with Antagonistic Catalysts Compartmentalized in the Dispersed and Continuous Phases of a Pickering Emulsion

(2019) Carolien M. Vis et al.   ChemSusChem

Quantification of active sites in single-site group 4 metal olefin polymerization catalysis

(2019) Xavier Desert et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Ethene Dimerization on Zeolite-Hosted Ni Ions: Reversible Mobilization of the Active Site

(2019) Rasmus Yding Brogaard et al.   ACS Catalysis

Operando monitoring of temperature and active species at the single catalyst particle level

(2019) Thomas Hartman et al.   Nature Catalysis

Carboxyl intermediate formation via an in situ-generated metastable active site during water-gas shift catalysis

(2019) Nicholas C. Nelson et al.   Nature Catalysis

Confined microenvironment for catalysis control

(2019) Qiang Fu et al.   Nature Catalysis

The active sites of a working Fischer–Tropsch catalyst revealed by operando scanning tunnelling microscopy

(2019) Bernhard Böller et al.   Nature Catalysis

Imaging the dynamics of catalysed surface reactions by in situ scanning electron microscopy

(2019) Cédric Barroo et al.   Nature Catalysis

Thermally Stable TiO2 - and SiO2 -Shell-Isolated Au Nanoparticles for In Situ Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Hydrogenation Catalysts

(2018) Thomas Hartman et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Reaction Mechanism and Kinetics for Ammonia Synthesis on the Fe(111) Surface

(2018) Jin Qian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Multifaceted Role of Methylaluminoxane in Metallocene-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysis

(2018) Marjolein E. Z. Velthoen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Communicating catalysts

(2018) Bert M. Weckhuysen   Nature Chemistry

Cooperative communication within and between single nanocatalysts

(2018) Ningmu Zou et al.   Nature Chemistry

Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process

(2018) Irina Yarulina et al.   Nature Chemistry

Revealing Lattice Expansion of Small-Pore Zeolite Catalysts during the Methanol-to-Olefins Process Using Combined Operando X-ray Diffraction and UV–vis Spectroscopy

(2018) Joris Goetze et al.   ACS Catalysis

Nature of Active Nickel Sites and Initiation Mechanism for Ethylene Oligomerization on Heterogeneous Ni-beta Catalysts

(2018) Sara Moussa et al.   ACS Catalysis

Direct Methane to Methanol: The Selectivity–Conversion Limit and Design Strategies

(2018) Allegra A. Latimer et al.   ACS Catalysis

Methane-to-methanol conversion over zeolite Cu-SSZ-13, and its comparison with the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3

(2018) Ramon Oord et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Capturing the Genesis of an Active Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalyst with Operando X-ray Nanospectroscopy

(2018) Ilse K. van Ravenhorst et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cu-CHA – a model system for applied selective redox catalysis

(2018) Elisa Borfecchia et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Spatial and temporal exploration of heterogeneous catalysts with synchrotron radiation

(2018) Florian Meirer et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Insights into the activation of silica-supported metallocene olefin polymerization catalysts by methylaluminoxane

(2018) Marjolein E.Z. Velthoen et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

High-Resolution Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Analysis Provides Evidence for a Longer Fe···Fe Distance in the Q Intermediate of Methane Monooxygenase

(2018) George E. Cutsail et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible and Site-Dependent Proton-Transfer in Zeolites Uncovered at the Single-Molecule Level

(2018) Zoran Ristanović et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Activity enhancement of cobalt catalysts by tuning metal-support interactions

(2018) Carlos Hernández Mejía et al.   Nature Communications

Nature of the Active Sites for CO Reduction on Copper Nanoparticles; Suggestions for Optimizing Performance

(2017) Tao Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-Energy-Resolution Fluorescence-Detected X-ray Absorption of the Q Intermediate of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

(2017) Rebeca G. Castillo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quantitative and Atomic-Scale View of CO-Induced Pt Nanoparticle Surface Reconstruction at Saturation Coverage via DFT Calculations Coupled with in Situ TEM and IR

(2017) Talin Avanesian et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Particle Growth during the Polymerization of Olefins on Supported Catalysts. Part 2: Current Experimental Understanding and Modeling Progresses on Particle Fragmentation, Growth, and Morphology Development

(2017) Arash Alizadeh et al.   Macromolecular Reaction Engineering

High-spatial-resolution mapping of catalytic reactions on single particles

(2017) Chung-Yeh Wu et al.   NATURE

Catalyst support effects on hydrogen spillover

(2017) Waiz Karim et al.   NATURE

Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC catalysts

(2017) Lili Lin et al.   NATURE

Active sites for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol on Cu/ZnO catalysts

(2017) Shyam Kattel et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination

(2017) Grazia Malta et al.   SCIENCE

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

(2017) Zhi Wei Seh et al.   SCIENCE

Atomic-layered Au clusters on α-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction

(2017) Siyu Yao et al.   SCIENCE

To address surface reaction network complexity using scaling relations machine learning and DFT calculations

(2017) Zachary W. Ulissi et al.   Nature Communications

Understanding trends in electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction rates

(2017) Xinyan Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Enhancing the catalytic activity of hydronium ions through constrained environments

(2017) Yuanshuai Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Scaling Relations for Adsorption Energies on Doped Molybdenum Phosphide Surfaces

(2017) Meredith Fields et al.   ACS Catalysis

Insights into the Activity and Deactivation of the Methanol-to-Olefins Process over Different Small-Pore Zeolites As Studied with Operando UV–vis Spectroscopy

(2017) Joris Goetze et al.   ACS Catalysis

Coke Formation in a Zeolite Crystal During the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction as Studied with Atom Probe Tomography

(2016) Joel E. Schmidt et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Facile synthesis of highly active Rh/Al 2 O 3 steam reforming catalysts with preformed support by flame spray pyrolysis

(2016) Jiafeng Yu et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Paul Sabatier – The father of the chemical theory of catalysis

(2016) Ioana Fechete   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE

Evolution of the Atomic Structure of Ceria-Supported Platinum Nanocatalysts: Formation of Single Layer Platinum Oxide and Pt–O–Ce and Pt–Ce Linkages

(2016) Leon A. Avakyan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Surface- and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Catalysis

(2016) Thomas Hartman et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Recycling of CO2: Probing the Chemical State of the Ni(111) Surface during the Methanation Reaction with Ambient-Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

(2016) Christian Heine et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dissociative Carbon Dioxide Adsorption and Morphological Changes on Cu(100) and Cu(111) at Ambient Pressures

(2016) Baran Eren et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single Molecule Nanospectroscopy Visualizes Proton-Transfer Processes within a Zeolite Crystal

(2016) Zoran Ristanović et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites

(2016) Benjamin E. R. Snyder et al.   NATURE

Molecular catalysis science: Perspective on unifying the fields of catalysis

(2016) Rong Ye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Activation of Cu(111) surface by decomposition into nanoclusters driven by CO adsorption

(2016) B. Eren et al.   SCIENCE

Bridging the pressure gap: Can we get local quantitative structural information at ‘near-ambient’ pressures?

(2016) D.P. Woodruff   SURFACE SCIENCE

Utilizing Quantitative in Situ FTIR Spectroscopy To Identify Well-Coordinated Pt Atoms as the Active Site for CO Oxidation on Al2O3-Supported Pt Catalysts

(2016) Matthew J. Kale et al.   ACS Catalysis

Ethene Oligomerization in Ni-Containing Zeolites: Theoretical Discrimination of Reaction Mechanisms

(2016) Rasmus Y. Brogaard et al.   ACS Catalysis

An improved d-band model of the catalytic activity of magnetic transition metal surfaces

(2016) Satadeep Bhattacharjee et al.   Scientific Reports

From Multisite Polymerization Catalysis to Sustainable Materials and All-Polyolefin Composites

(2015) Markus Stürzel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The formation and degradation of active species during methanol conversion over protonated zeotype catalysts

(2015) U. Olsbye et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Fluid catalytic cracking: recent developments on the grand old lady of zeolite catalysis

(2015) E. T. C. Vogt et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Isolated Metal Active Site Concentration and Stability Control Catalytic CO2 Reduction Selectivity

(2015) John C. Matsubu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanoscale intimacy in bifunctional catalysts for selective conversion of hydrocarbons

(2015) Jovana Zecevic et al.   NATURE

Identification of active sites in CO oxidation and water-gas shift over supported Pt catalysts

(2015) K. Ding et al.   SCIENCE

Ex Situ and Operando Studies on the Role of Copper in Cu-Promoted SiO2–MgO Catalysts for the Lebedev Ethanol-to-Butadiene Process

(2015) Carlo Angelici et al.   ACS Catalysis

Studying birth, life and death of catalytic solids with operando spectroscopy

(2015) Bert M. Weckhuysen   National Science Review

Life and death of a single catalytic cracking particle

(2015) F. Meirer et al.   Science Advances

High-Resolution Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Zeolite Aggregates within Real-Life Fluid Catalytic Cracking Particles

(2014) Zoran Ristanović et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Review of old chemistry and new catalytic advances in the on-purpose synthesis of butadiene

(2014) Ekaterina V. Makshina et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Active and Selective Conversion of CO2 to CO on Ultrathin Au Nanowires

(2014) Wenlei Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Visualization of oscillatory behaviour of Pt nanoparticles catalysing CO oxidation

(2014) S. B. Vendelbo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Adding diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy capability to extended x-ray-absorption fine structure in a new cell to study solid catalysts in combination with a modulation approach

(2014) Gian Luca Chiarello et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Recent Advances in Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to Chemicals

(2014) Junming Sun et al.   ACS Catalysis

The Influence of Ziegler-Natta and Metallocene Catalysts on Polyolefin Structure, Properties, and Processing Ability

(2014) Ahmad Shamiri et al.   Materials

Revisiting active sites in heterogeneous catalysis: Their structure and their dynamic behaviour

(2013) Jacques C. Védrine   APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL

Effect of platinum dispersion on the catalytic activity of Pt/Al2O3 for the oxidation of carbon monoxide and propene

(2013) Masaaki Haneda et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

The catalytic diversity of zeolites: confinement and solvation effects within voids of molecular dimensions

(2013) Rajamani Gounder et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Reactivity of Surface Species in Heterogeneous Catalysts Probed by In Situ X-ray Absorption Techniques

(2013) Silvia Bordiga et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Chemocatalytic Conversion of Ethanol into Butadiene and Other Bulk Chemicals

(2013) Carlo Angelici et al.   ChemSusChem

Structure sensitivity of the Fischer–Tropsch activity and selectivity on alumina supported cobalt catalysts

(2013) N. Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Mechanistic study of low temperature CO2 methanation over Rh/TiO2 catalysts

(2013) Alejandro Karelovic et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Control of Metal Nanocrystal Size Reveals Metal-Support Interface Role for Ceria Catalysts

(2013) M. Cargnello et al.   SCIENCE

Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons: How Zeolite Cavity and Pore Size Controls Product Selectivity

(2012) Unni Olsbye et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanostructured materials for applications in heterogeneous catalysis

(2012) Francisco Zaera   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Surface-Mediated Synthesis of Dimeric Rhodium Catalysts on MgO: Tracking Changes in the Nuclearity and Ligand Environment of the Catalytically Active Sites by X-ray Absorption and Infrared Spectroscopies

(2012) Dicle Yardimci et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Spectroscopic Detection of Active Species on Catalytic Surfaces: Steady-State versus Transient Method

(2012) Nobutaka Maeda et al.   CHIMIA

Quantitative Analysis of Modulated Excitation X-ray Absorption Spectra: Enhanced Precision of EXAFS Fitting

(2012) Christian F. J. König et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Heterogeneities of individual catalyst particles in space and time as monitored by spectroscopy

(2012) Inge L. C. Buurmans et al.   Nature Chemistry

Catalytic processes monitored at the nanoscale with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2012) Evelien M. van Schrojenstein Lantman et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Active Site of an Industrial Catalyst

(2012) J. P. Greeley   SCIENCE

The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts

(2012) M. Behrens et al.   SCIENCE

Recent Advances in Preferential Oxidation of CO Reaction over Platinum Group Metal Catalysts

(2012) Kuo Liu et al.   ACS Catalysis

Operando Spectroscopy: the Knowledge Bridge to Assessing Structure-Performance Relationships in Catalyst Nanoparticles

(2011) Miguel A. Bañares   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Coke Formation during the Methanol-to-Olefin Conversion: In Situ Microspectroscopy on Individual H-ZSM-5 Crystals with Different Brønsted Acidity

(2011) Davide Mores et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Preface: recent advances in the in-situ characterization of heterogeneous catalysts

(2010) Bert M. Weckhuysen   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The New Materials Science of Catalysis: Toward Controlling Selectivity by Designing the Structure of the Active Site

(2010) Francisco Zaera   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2010) Jian Feng Li et al.   NATURE

Break-Up of Stepped Platinum Catalyst Surfaces by High CO Coverage

(2010) F. Tao et al.   SCIENCE

Chemical Imaging of Spatial Heterogeneities in Catalytic Solids at Different Length and Time Scales

(2009) Bert M. Weckhuysen   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

On highly active partially oxidized platinum in carbon monoxide oxidation over supported platinum catalysts

(2009) E.M.C. Alayon et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Towards the computational design of solid catalysts

(2009) J. K. Nørskov et al.   Nature Chemistry

A [Cu2O]2+core in Cu-ZSM-5, the active site in the oxidation of methane to methanol

(2009) Julia S. Woertink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complementary Structure Sensitive and Insensitive Catalytic Relationships

(2008) Rutger A. Van Santen   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Generating Highly Active Partially Oxidized Platinum during Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide over Pt/Al2O3: In Situ, Time-Resolved, and High-Energy-Resolution X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2008) Jagdeep Singh et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reactions at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity (Nobel Lecture)

(2008) Gerhard Ertl   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Unraveling molecular transformations on surfaces: a critical comparison of oxidation reactions on coinage metals

(2008) Xiaoying Liu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Scanning tunneling microscopy as a tool to study catalytically relevant model systems

(2008) Ronnie T. Vang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Automotive catalysis studied by surface science

(2008) Michael Bowker   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Molecular surface chemistry by metal single crystals and nanoparticles from vacuum to high pressure

(2008) Gabor A. Somorjai et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The nature of the active site in heterogeneous metal catalysis

(2008) Jens K. Nørskov et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The confinement effect in zeolites

(2008) G. Sastre et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL

Single-molecule nanocatalysis reveals heterogeneous reaction pathways and catalytic dynamics

(2008) Weilin Xu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

(2008) F. Tao et al.   SCIENCE