In-situ and operando spectroscopies for the characterization of catalysts and of mechanisms of catalytic reactions

Solvent molecules form surface redox mediators in situ and cocatalyze O2 reduction on Pd

(2021) Jason S. Adams et al.   SCIENCE

In-operando surface-sensitive probing of electrochemical reactions on nanoparticle electrocatalysts: Spectroscopic characterization of reaction intermediates and elementary steps of oxygen reduction reaction on Pt

(2021) Sean T. Dix et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

In-situ detection of active sites for carbon-based bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution catalysis

(2021) Richard W. Haid et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

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

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

Effects of Zr Doping into Ceria for the Dry Reforming of Methane over Ni/CeZrO2 Catalysts: In Situ Studies with XRD, XAFS, and AP-XPS

(2020) Feng Zhang et al.   ACS Catalysis

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

(2020) Janis Timoshenko et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Interplay between CO Disproportionation and Oxidation: On the Origin of the CO Reaction Onset on Atomic Layer Deposition-Grown Pt/ZrO2 Model Catalysts

(2020) Verena Pramhaas et al.   ACS Catalysis

Real-Time Detection of Intermediates in Rhodium Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Alkynes and Alkenes by Dissolution DNP

(2019) Peter Andreas Boeg et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Understanding Catalyst Surfaces during Catalysis through Near Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

(2019) Luan Nguyen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Spatial Distribution of Silica-Bound Catalytic Organic Functional Groups Can Now Be Revealed by Conventional and DNP-Enhanced Solid-State NMR Methods

(2019) Takeshi Kobayashi et al.   ACS Catalysis

Mechanistic Insights on CO2 Reduction Reactions at Platinum/[BMIM][BF4] Interfaces from In Operando Spectroscopy

(2019) Andre Kemna et al.   ACS Catalysis

In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy on Energy‐Related Catalysis

(2019) Sooyeon Hwang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Operando MAS NMR Reaction Studies at High Temperatures and Pressures

(2018) Eric D. Walter et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Infrared absorption spectroscopy characterization of liquid–solid interfaces: The case of chiral modification of catalysts

(2018) Francisco Zaera   SURFACE SCIENCE

Surface Science Approach to the Molecular Level Integration of the Principles in Heterogeneous, Homogeneous, and Enzymatic Catalysis

(2018) Tyler J. Hurlburt et al.   TOPICS IN CATALYSIS

Calculations of CO Oxidation over a Au/TiO2 Catalyst: A Study of Active Sites, Catalyst Deactivation, and Moisture Effects

(2018) Zhiyao Duan et al.   ACS Catalysis

Synthesis of Solid Catalysts with Spatially Resolved Acidic and Basic Molecular Functionalities

(2018) Zhihuan Weng et al.   ACS Catalysis

In Situ Elucidation of the Active State of Co–CeOx Catalysts in the Dry Reforming of Methane: The Important Role of the Reducible Oxide Support and Interactions with Cobalt

(2018) Feng Zhang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Interfaces in heterogeneous catalytic reactions: Ambient pressure XPS as a tool to unravel surface chemistry

(2017) Robert M. Palomino et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED PHENOMENA

EPR approaches to heterogeneous catalysis. The chemistry of titanium in heterogeneous catalysts and photocatalysts

(2017) Elena Morra et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Direct Neutron Spectroscopy Observation of Cerium Hydride Species on a Cerium Oxide Catalyst

(2017) Zili Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2017) Chung-Yeh Wu et al.   NATURE

Gold-Titania Catalysts for Low-Temperature Oxidation and Water Splitting

(2017) Francisco Zaera   TOPICS IN CATALYSIS

In situ dynamic tracking of heterogeneous nanocatalytic processes by shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2017) Hua Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

The Critical Role of Tilted Cinchona Surface Species for Enantioselective Hydrogenation

(2017) Laura Rodríguez-García et al.   ACS Catalysis

Atomistic Description of Reaction Intermediates for Supported Metathesis Catalysts Enabled by DNP SENS

(2016) Ta-Chung Ong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Water at Interfaces

(2016) Olle Björneholm et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Ambient-Pressure XPS Study of a Ni–Fe Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

(2016) Harri Ali-Löytty et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Active Site Dependent Reaction Mechanism over Ru/CeO2 Catalyst toward CO2 Methanation

(2016) Fei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In Situ EPR Study of the Redox Properties of CuO–CeO2 Catalysts for Preferential CO Oxidation (PROX)

(2016) Feng Wang et al.   ACS Catalysis

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

In Situ Spectroscopic Investigation into the Active Sites for Crotonaldehyde Hydrogenation at the Pt Nanoparticle–Co3O4 Interface

(2016) Griffin Kennedy et al.   ACS Catalysis

Operando Spectroscopic Analysis of an Amorphous Cobalt Sulfide Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst

(2015) Nikolay Kornienko et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Identification of Highly Active Fe Sites in (Ni,Fe)OOH for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

(2015) Daniel Friebel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Comparative in Operando Studies in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Atomic and Electronic Structural Features in the Hydrogenation of Ethylene over Supported Pd and Pt Catalysts

(2015) Ulrich Jung et al.   ACS Catalysis

Solar Hydrogen Production by Plasmonic Au–TiO2 Catalysts: Impact of Synthesis Protocol and TiO2 Phase on Charge Transfer Efficiency and H2 Evolution Rates

(2015) Jacqueline B. Priebe et al.   ACS Catalysis

Correlated bifunctionality in heterogeneous catalysts: selective tethering of cinchonidine next to supported Pt nanoparticles

(2015) Junghyun Hong et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Elucidation of Intermediates and Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Catalysis Using Infrared Spectroscopy

(2014) Aditya Savara et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Approaches to Single-Nanoparticle Catalysis

(2014) Justin B. Sambur et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

UV Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Catalysts and Catalytic Active Sites

(2014) Shaoqing Jin et al.   CATALYSIS LETTERS

Surface Chemistry for Enantioselective Catalysis

(2014) Andrew J. Gellman et al.   CATALYSIS LETTERS

New advances in the use of infrared absorption spectroscopy for the characterization of heterogeneous catalytic reactions

(2014) Francisco Zaera   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Dynamics of Oxidation of Well-Defined Adsorbed CO Phases on Pt(111) in Aqueous Acidic Electrolytes: Simultaneous in Situ Second Harmonic Generation and Differential Reflectance Spectroscopy

(2014) Iosif Fromondi et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Coordination Environment of Copper Sites in Cu-CHA Zeolite Investigated by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

(2014) Anita Godiksen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Promotion of atomic hydrogen recombination as an alternative to electron trapping for the role of metals in the photocatalytic production of H2

(2014) J. B. Joo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simultaneous probing of bulk liquid phase and catalytic gas-liquid-solid interface under working conditions using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy

(2014) Fabian Meemken et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation

(2014) J. Saavedra et al.   SCIENCE

Catalysts under Controlled Atmospheres in the Transmission Electron Microscope

(2014) Thomas W. Hansen et al.   ACS Catalysis

In Situ Observations of the Atomistic Mechanisms of Ni Catalyzed Low Temperature Graphene Growth

(2013) Laerte L. Patera et al.   ACS Nano

Adsorption of 1-(1-Naphthyl)ethylamine from Solution onto Platinum Surfaces: Implications for the Chiral Modification of Heterogeneous Catalysts

(2013) Alexander D. Gordon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Haber-Bosch Process Revisited: On the Real Structure and Stability of “Ammonia Iron” under Working Conditions

(2013) Timur Kandemir et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2013) Silvia Bordiga et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

CO2 Electroreduction on Well-Defined Bimetallic Surfaces: Cu Overlayers on Pt(111) and Pt(211)

(2013) Ana Sofia Varela et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Model Catalysts: Simulating the Complexities of Heterogeneous Catalysts

(2012) Feng Gao et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Selective detection of reaction intermediates using concentration-modulation excitation DRIFT spectroscopy

(2012) Alejo Aguirre et al.   CATALYSIS TODAY

Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Adsorbed CO: New Applications in Nanocatalysis for an Old Approach

(2012) Francisco Zaera   ChemCatChem

Probing Liquid/Solid Interfaces at the Molecular Level

(2012) Francisco Zaera   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Manipulation of Charge Transfer Across Semiconductor Interface. A Criterion That Cannot Be Ignored in Photocatalyst Design

(2012) Prashant V. Kamat   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

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

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

(2011) Miguel A. Bañares   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The use of short time-on-stream in situ spectroscopic transient kinetic isotope techniques to investigate the mechanism of hydrocarbon selective catalytic reduction (HC-SCR) of NOx at low temperatures

(2011) Sarayute Chansai et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Direct Observation of Kinetically Competent Surface Intermediates upon Ethylene Hydroformylation over Rh/Al2O3 under Reaction Conditions by Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

(2011) N. Sivasankar et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Surface chemistry at the liquid/solid interface

(2011) Francisco Zaera   SURFACE SCIENCE

A history of industrial catalysis

(2010) John N. Armor   CATALYSIS TODAY

Light at the interface: the potential of attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy for understanding heterogeneous catalysis in water

(2010) Barbara Louise Mojet et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Resonance Raman and surface- and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy methods to study solid catalysts and heterogeneous catalytic reactions

(2010) Hacksung Kim et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Monitoring surface metal oxide catalytic active sites with Raman spectroscopy

(2010) Israel E. Wachs et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Infrared and Raman imaging of heterogeneous catalysts

(2010) Eli Stavitski et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Model Studies in Heterogeneous Catalysis

(2010) H.-J. Freund   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Measuring fundamental properties in operating solid oxide electrochemical cells by using in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

(2010) Chunjuan Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Catalytic conversion of olefins on supported cubic platinum nanoparticles: Selectivity of (100) versus (111) surfaces

(2009) Ilkeun Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Influence of Peripheral Groups on the Physical and Chemical Behavior of Cinchona Alkaloids

(2009) Jinfeng Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B