Layered double hydroxides is a rising family of materials with interesting photocatalytic properties that are starting to be employed on the CO2 photoreduction useful chemicals. However, selectivity control towards high energy value products, such as methane or methanol, one main issues this process due easier formation CO, which requires fewer electrons transferred, and competition hydrogen ev...

The direct use of ethanol in fuel cells presents unprecedented economic, technical, and environmental opportunities energy conversion. However, complex challenges need to be resolved. For instance, oxidation reaction (EOR) requires breaking the rigid C–C bond results generation poisoning carbonaceous species. Therefore, new designs catalyst electrode are necessary. In this work, two trimetallic...

A method for rapid screening of photocatalysts employing a form of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is described. A piezoelectric dispenser was used to deposit arrays composed of approximately 300-microm-size photocatalyst spots with different compositions onto conducting glass, fluorine-doped tin oxide substrate. The scanning tip of the SECM was replaced by a fiber optic connected to...

Trimetallic catalytic microrotors were fabricated by electrodeposition of cylindrical Au-Ru rods in the pores of anodic alumina membranes, dissolution of the template membrane, and then sequential vapor deposition of Cr, SiO(2), Cr, Au, and Pt on one side of each rod. This design provides two force vectors for the catalytic motor, including one perpendicular to the rod axis. The rods rotated ra...

Homo-metallic metal alkynyl complexes exhibit interesting catenane structures, but their hetero-metallic catenane counterparts are under-developed. In this work, we report rare examples of bimetallic Au–Cu (DtbpC^C ligand; Dtbp 1⁄4 3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl), Au–Ag (BuC^C ligand), and Au–Cu, Au–Ag (C6FluoC^C ligand; C6-Fluo 1⁄4 9,9-dihexyl-9H-fluoren-2-yl) complexes as well as a trimetallic Au–Ag...

Exohedral derivatization of endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) has been exploited as a useful method for characterizing the structural and chemical properties of EMFs, and for functionalizing them for potential applications. The introduction of heteroatoms, such as electropositive silicon atoms, to fullerene cages is a novel functionalization method that remarkably affects the electronic chara...