Abstract
The ability to devise and design multifunctional active sites at the nanoscale, by drawing on the intricate ability of enzymes to evolve single-sites with distinctive catalytic function, has prompted complimentary and concordant developments in the field of catalyst design and in situ operando spectroscopy. Innovations in design-application approach have led to a more fundamental understanding of the nature of the active site and its mechanistic influence at a molecular level, that have enabled robust structure–property correlations to be established, which has facilitated the dextrous manipulation and predictive design of redox and solid-acid sites for industrially-significant, sustainable catalytic transformations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5940-5957 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Chemical Communications |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 45 |
| Early online date | 18 Mar 2014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Jun 2014 |
Funding
We would like to thank our colleagues in Italy, Drs E. Gianotti, M. Manzoli and M. Chiesa for their stellar contributions and stimulating scientific discussions to the original research. Our industrial collaborators and partners, Drs A. Levy, S. Keenan, S. Bare and T. Mezza from Honeywell, are acknowledged for their intellectual input and assistance with the operando spectroscopy tools. Finally, we are grateful to Honeywell LLC for their continued financial support that has facilitated this research.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Ceramics and Composites
- General Chemistry
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films
- Metals and Alloys
- Materials Chemistry