Shaping nano-catalysts
Shaping nano-catalysts
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成型纳米催化剂
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10.1140/epjb/e2019-100024-9
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2019
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Baletto F
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The field of catalysis is in a state of continuous and chameleonic evolution and expansion, to address the world’s socio-economics needs. Since the beginning of the last century, we have observed a strong correlation between industrial needs and research activities focussed on discovering new chemical processes: ammonia synthesis that increased for example, the supply of nitrogen fertilizers thanks to the work of Haber (1919 Nobel Laureate) and Bosch (1932 Nobel Laureate); Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons; catalytic production of polymers from petrochemicals; and now the new era devoted to green chemistry catalysis. Ostwald (1909 Nobel Laureate) introduced the concept of chemical kinetics and defined a catalyst as “a substance which affects the rate of a chemical reaction without being part of its end products”. In the long pathway that has led catalysis to be a more and more predictive science, there are several notable milestones. This new era can probably be traced to the remarkable work of Ertl (2007 Nobel Laureate) which triggered a real revolution. The core of Ertl’s revolutionary approach is that catalysis is a science that should be understood, and hence controlled and improved, at the atomic level. In recent decades, researchers have begun a complete transition towards a deep understanding of catalytic processes at the molecular/atomistic level, based on the concept of active site (s), defined as the region where reactions occur. Moreover, we have assisted in the introduction of descriptors, as quantities which capture (ie determine) the catalytic properties of the system. So far, the study of catalytic activity has been related to specific energy mappings, because the adsorption energies of the reactants and the activation energies of the intermediate steps enable the establishment of scaling relationships to be constructed. The reactivity depends on the adsorption strength, showing a ‘volcano’behaviour, where both a too weak (the reactant desorbs easily) and a too strong (limited by the desorption of product) interaction is deleterious to catalysis. In this view, new descriptors, eg the d-band centre
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2018
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European Physical Journal B : Condensed Matter Physics
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作者:
V. A. Rigo;C. R. Miranda;F. Baletto
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F. Baletto