Selective Catalytic Reduction: From Basic Science to deNOx Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The development and commercialization of catalytic processes for remediating toxic emissions from stational sources and from vehicles has been a truly remarkable achievement for the environmental catalysis community. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with ammonia is among the most important and successful such techniques that we have witnessed, evolving from vanadia- to exchanged zeolite-based over the past 50 years. As with other industrialized catalytic processes, basic research aiming at understanding nature of the catalyst active sites, reaction mechanisms, and structure–activity correlations must couple applied studies aiming at efficiency, economics, lifetime, and environmental benignity, etc., of the catalysts. In addition to experimental approaches, we have also witnessed rapid development of computational power in assisting rational catalyst design in the past few decades. This Special Issue welcomes both review and original research articles on all aspects of SCR catalysis, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Recent advances in the synthesis and optimization of oxide- and zeolite-based SCR catalytic materials;
• The latest studies on the chemical mechanisms of SCR;
• Studies on deactivation and regeneration of SCR catalysts;
• Advances in in situ and operando methods for studying SCR catalyst materials and processes;
• Recent advances in computational research for SCR research.

Dr. Feng Gao
Dr. Todd J. Toops
Guest Editors

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