General approach for atomically dispersed precious metal catalysts toward hydrogen reaction

Atomically Dispersed Precious Metal Species on Various Oxide Supports for Catalytic Hydrogen Upgrading and Emission Control

Sir Hugh Stott Taylor first defined the concept of “catalytic active sites” in 1925 as the place where the catalytic reaction occurs. In a homogeneous phase, the active sites are uniquely defined, but on a heterogeneous catalyst surface, it is always challenging to identify the active sites; the latter often change with the operating conditions and are disguised by the presence of nanoparticles...

Investigations into the Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide and CO Oxidation Using Precious Metal Catalysts

A New Class of Oxidation Catalysts: the role of atomically dispersed metals in nanostructured oxides

The need for high purity hydrogen for use in lowtemperature fuel cells has led to a resurgence of interest in the purification of hydrogen derived from reforming carbon -based feedstocks. A common process used to reduce the carbon monoxide concentration of the reformate gas to an acceptable level is the water gas shift reaction (WGSR). In the reaction, carbon monoxide is combined with water to ...

Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers: Novel Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production

Catalyst-driven electrolysis of water is considered as a "cleanest" way for hydrogen production. Finding cheap and abundant catalysts is critical to the large-scale implementation of the technology. Two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides nanostructures have attracted increasing attention because of their catalytic performances in water electrolysis. In this work, we systematically investigate th...

Conducting MoS₂ nanosheets as catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction.

We report chemically exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets with a very high concentration of metallic 1T phase using a solvent free intercalation method. After removing the excess of negative charges from the surface of the nanosheets, highly conducting 1T phase MoS2 nanosheets exhibit excellent catalytic activity toward the evolution of hydrogen with a notably low Tafel slope of 40 mV/dec. By partially o...