Advanced Nanocatalysts: Design, Mechanism, and Performance
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 91
Special Issue Editor
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; developing the efficiently catalytic systems for the high-value utilization of green carbon resources (such as biomass, CO2), including bio-jet fuel, value-added chemicals and bio-based polymer monomers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our modern society urgently requires meeting the fundamental needs involving sustainable development, clean energy, renewable polymers and CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage), all calling for novel catalytic tools with which synergies, optimized nano-catalysts, and designed interfaces between nanoparticles and supports must be developed. With their quantum size effect, surface free energy, and confinement-induced strain effects, nano-catalysts are believed to be the first choice for solving the above-mentioned challenges. However, nanoparticles with high surface free energy show lower stability in comparison to the bulk materials. Moreover, lack of fundamental understanding of dynamic evolution for supported metal nano-catalysts hinders the rational design of effective catalysts. Profiting from technological innovation, including in situ electron microscopy and synchrotron techniques for in situ catalytic studies, recent intensive effort has been devoted to developing advanced nano-catalysts and elucidating catalytic mechanism. This Special Issue aims to capture the recent breakthroughs and foster further innovation in this rapidly evolving field.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Methodology of catalyst characterization and design;
- In situ/operando characterization, reactivity and design of nanoparticle catalysts;
- Physio-chemical properties of nano-catalysts;
- Biorefining, including biofuels, high value-added chemicals and monomers of renewable polymer;
- Carbon dioxide utilization, including fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide;
- Hydrogen production, storage and distribution;
- Techno-economic and sustainability assessments.
Dr. Bingfeng Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nano-catalyst synthesis
- size-dependent properties
- confinement effects in nano-catalysis
- structure and morphology
- electronic structure and defects
- surface chemistry, e.g., acid–base properties, reduction–oxidation properties
- support effect
- thermo-catalysis
- photo-catalysis
- electro-catalyst
- in situ/operando characterization of nano-catalysts
- dynamic nano-catalysts
- AI-assisted catalyst discovery
- structure–activity relationship
- elucidating catalytic mechanism
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