Some recent developments in surface and interface design for photocatalytic and electrocatalytic hybrid structures

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (51) ◽  
pp. 10261-10271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Bai ◽  
Yujie Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Catalytic Performance ◽  
Hybrid Structures ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Inorganic Hybrid ◽  
Surface And Interface ◽  
Catalytic Application ◽  
Recent Developments

This feature article outlines recent progress in the surface and interface design of inorganic hybrid structures, which offers the possibilities to tune their catalytic performance, with a focus on the fundamentals behind each synthesis and catalytic application.

Surface and interface design in cocatalysts for photocatalytic water splitting and CO2reduction

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (62) ◽  
pp. 57446-57463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Bai ◽  
Wenjie Yin ◽  
Lili Wang ◽  
Zhengquan Li ◽  
Yujie Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Water Splitting ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Photocatalytic Water Splitting ◽  
Surface And Interface ◽  
Highly Efficient

This review outlines the recent progress on designing the surface and interface of cocatalysts to create highly efficient photocatalysts for water splitting and CO2reduction.

Recent developments in the construction of metallacycle/metallacage-cored supramolecular polymers via hierarchical self-assembly

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (56) ◽  
pp. 8036-8059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Li ◽  
Tian He ◽  
Yiqi Fan ◽  
Xinchao Yuan ◽  
Huayu Qiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Supramolecular Polymers ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Bio Imaging

This feature article summarized the recent progress on the construction of metallacycle/metallacage-cored supramolecular polymers by the hierarchical self-assembly, and the potential applications in the areas of light emitting, sensing, bio-imaging, delivery and release, etc., are also presented.

(Invited) Coupling Solar Energy into Catalytic CO2 Conversion

2018 ◽  
Vol MA2018-01 (31) ◽  
pp. 1833-1833
Author(s):  
Yujie Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Hybrid Structures ◽  
Interface Engineering ◽  
Inorganic Hybrid ◽  
Surface And Interface ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Major Trend ◽  
Overall Efficiency ◽  
Key Steps

Considering the excessive emission of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the combustion of fossil fuels, the sunlight-driven CO2 reduction into higher energy chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, formic acid, methanol or methane, offers a more promising approach to alleviate both global warming and energy crisis. Designing new photocatalytic materials for improving the photoconversion efficiency is a promising route to achieve this goal. Despite the invention of a large number of catalytic materials with well-defined structures, their overall efficiency in photocatalysis is still quite limited as the three key steps - light harvesting, charge generation and separation, and charge transfer to surface for redox reactions - have not been substantially improved. To improve each step in the complex process, there is a major trend to develop materials based on inorganic hybrid structures, in which surface and interface engineering holds the promise for boosting the overall efficiency. In this talk, I will demonstrate several different approaches to designing inorganic hybrid structures with improved photocatalytic performance via surface and interface engineering. It is anticipated that this series of works open a new window to rationally designing inorganic hybrid materials for photo-induced applications.

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of spirooxindoles: recent developments

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (50) ◽  
pp. 6607-6621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Jian Mei ◽  
Feng Shi
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Synthesis ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
The Past ◽  
Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Catalytic Asymmetric

The past four years have witnessed significant developments in the field of the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of spirooxindoles, and this feature article outlines the recent progress in this area, including the contributions of our group. This article is divided into sections according to the size and type of the generated spiro-ring fused at the C3-position of the oxindole core.

scholarly journals A Review on Recent Progress of Glycan-Based Surfactant Micelles as Nanoreactor Systems for Chemical Synthesis Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-186
Author(s):  
Bahareh Vafakish ◽  
Lee D. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Synthesis ◽  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Reaction Rates ◽  
Bulk Solution ◽  
Surfactant Micelles ◽  
Conventional Surfactant ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
To Receive

The nanoreactor concept and its application as a modality to carry out chemical reactions in confined and compartmentalized structures continues to receive increasing attention. Micelle-based nanoreactors derived from various classes of surfactant demonstrate outstanding potential for chemical synthesis. Polysaccharide (glycan-based) surfactants are an emerging class of biodegradable, non-toxic, and sustainable alternatives over conventional surfactant systems. The unique structure of glycan-based surfactants and their micellar structures provide a nanoenvironment that differs from that of the bulk solution, and supported by chemical reactions with uniquely different reaction rates and mechanisms. In this review, the aggregation of glycan-based surfactants to afford micelles and their utility for the synthesis of selected classes of reactions by the nanoreactor technique is discussed. Glycan-based surfactants are ecofriendly and promising surfactants over conventional synthetic analogues. This contribution aims to highlight recent developments in the field of glycan-based surfactants that are relevant to nanoreactors, along with future opportunities for research. In turn, coverage of research for glycan-based surfactants in nanoreactor assemblies with tailored volume and functionality is anticipated to motivate advanced research for the synthesis of diverse chemical species.

Recent Developments in Social Policy in the New European Union

ILR Review ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Addison ◽  
W. Stanley Siebert
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Adjustment Costs ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Labor Market Regulation ◽  
Future Direction

This paper assesses the recent progress and future direction of labor policy in the European Community, now the European Union. The authors show that most of the mandates foreshadowed under the December 1989 Community Social Charter have now been enacted into law. They analyze the possible costs, as well as the benefits, of these firstphase mandates and show the link between these adjustment costs and the Community's policy of providing subsidies to its poorer member states. They also demonstrate how the new Treaty on European Union, agreed to at Maastricht in December 1991, has increased the scope for Community-level labor market regulation.

Structures, physicochemical properties, and applications of T–HgII–T, C–AgI–C, and other metallo-base-pairs

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (98) ◽  
pp. 17343-17360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Tanaka ◽  
Jiro Kondo ◽  
Vladimír Sychrovský ◽  
Jakub Šebera ◽  
Takenori Dairaku ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physicochemical Properties ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Base Pairs ◽  
Feature Article

In this feature article, recent progress and future perspectives of metal-mediated base-pairs such as T–Hg(ii)–T and C–Ag(i)–C are presented.

Organic–inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites for optoelectronic and electronic applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixin Zhao ◽  
Kai Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Inorganic Hybrid ◽  
Halide Perovskites ◽  
Film Synthesis ◽  
Lead Halide

This article reviews recent progress on hybrid perovskites including crystal/thin-film synthesis, structural/chemical/electro-optical properties, (opto)electronic applications, and research issues/challenges.

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