Surface Science in Catalysis
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 459
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Materials’ surfaces are ideal places for catalytic reactions due to their different physicochemical properties with respect to the bulk ones. As a consequence, in recent decades, Surface Science has enormously contributed in the field of the heterogeneous catalysis by providing the means and the methods for the morphological, compositional, structural, and electronic characterization of surfaces and interfaces in nanoscale. The research has shown that the atomic structure of the surface, its oxidation states, and several types of strongly adsorbed overlayers are important features for the development of active catalysts on surfaces. The effort has not only been extended in physical but also in artificial surface systems, which seem to present even more interesting properties. Applications of such systems in different fields of catalysis, such as electrocatalysis and photocatalysis, have given spectacular results related to industrial, environmental, and energy issues. Massive production of ammonia, water splitting, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide reduction, hydrogen production, as well as decomposition of several pollutants, are some examples where specific surface systems have been proven to be effective model catalysts.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide information on the recent progress of Surface Science in the field of catalysis in terms of newly developed model catalysts. The authors are encouraged to submit their work relative to the catalytic activity of surfaces and interfaces in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis. Nanostructured adsorbates on surfaces such as noble metals, bimetallic clusters, mixed oxides, other complex materials, etc. could be at the center of the research interest in this Special Issue.
Dr. Dimitrios Vlachos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Surface chemical reactions
- Catalyst surfaces
- Chemisorption
- Physical adsorption
- Electrocatalysis
- Photocatalysis
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