Search Results - "Christopher, Phillip"
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Hot Charge Carrier Transmission from Plasmonic Nanostructures
Published in Annual review of physical chemistry (05-05-2017)“…Surface plasmons have recently been harnessed to carry out processes such as photovoltaic current generation, redox photochemistry, photocatalysis, and…”
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Approaches for Understanding and Controlling Interfacial Effects in Oxide-Supported Metal Catalysts
Published in ACS catalysis (03-08-2018)“…Heterogeneous supported metal catalysts are critical for a wide range of chemical conversion technologies. While the fundamental properties of extended metal…”
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Singular characteristics and unique chemical bond activation mechanisms of photocatalytic reactions on plasmonic nanostructures
Published in Nature materials (01-12-2012)“…The field of heterogeneous photocatalysis has almost exclusively focused on semiconductor photocatalysts. Herein, we show that plasmonic metallic…”
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Visible-light-enhanced catalytic oxidation reactions on plasmonic silver nanostructures
Published in Nature chemistry (01-06-2011)“…Catalysis plays a critical role in chemical conversion, energy production and pollution mitigation. High activation barriers associated with rate-limiting…”
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Utilizing Quantitative in Situ FTIR Spectroscopy To Identify Well-Coordinated Pt Atoms as the Active Site for CO Oxidation on Al2O3‑Supported Pt Catalysts
Published in ACS catalysis (05-08-2016)“…Relationships between geometric structures of active metallic sites and areal rates of reaction (structure sensitivity) are extensively studied for supported…”
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Nature of stable single atom Pt catalysts dispersed on anatase TiO2
Published in Journal of catalysis (01-11-2018)“…[Display omitted] •The atomistic nature of Pt single atom catalysts on anatase TiO2 is demonstrated.•The isolated Ptiso species consist of a PtO2…”
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Direct Photocatalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures
Published in ACS catalysis (03-01-2014)“…Recent reports have shown that plasmonic nanostructures can be used to drive direct photocatalysis with visible photons, where nanostructures act as the light…”
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Isolated Metal Active Site Concentration and Stability Control Catalytic CO2 Reduction Selectivity
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (04-03-2015)“…CO2 reduction by H2 on heterogeneous catalysts is an important class of reactions that has been studied for decades. However, atomic scale details of…”
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Catalyst Architecture for Stable Single Atom Dispersion Enables Site-Specific Spectroscopic and Reactivity Measurements of CO Adsorbed to Pt Atoms, Oxidized Pt Clusters, and Metallic Pt Clusters on TiO2
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-10-2017)“…Oxide-supported precious metal nanoparticles are widely used industrial catalysts. Due to expense and rarity, developing synthetic protocols that reduce…”
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Engineering Selectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Ag Nanowires as Selective Ethylene Epoxidation Catalysts
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (27-08-2008)“…Controlling selectivity in heterogeneous catalysis is critical for the design of environmentally friendly catalytic processes that minimize the production of…”
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Rh single atoms on TiO2 dynamically respond to reaction conditions by adapting their site
Published in Nature communications (03-10-2019)“…Single-atom catalysts are widely investigated heterogeneous catalysts; however, the identification of the local environment of single atoms under experimental…”
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Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-10-2018)“…Photocatalysis based on optically active, "plasmonic" metal nanoparticles has emerged as a promising approach to facilitate light-driven chemical conversions…”
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Mechanism of CO2 reduction by H2 on Ru(0001) and general selectivity descriptors for late-transition metal catalysts
Published in Journal of catalysis (01-11-2016)“…[Display omitted] •CO2 reduction by H2 on Ru studied with DFT calculations and microkinetic modeling.•CO∗ is common intermediate for competing CH4 and CO…”
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Adsorbate Specificity in Hot Electron Driven Photochemistry on Catalytic Metal Surfaces
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (04-12-2014)“…Visible light driven catalysis on metal surfaces and nanoparticles has attracted significant attention in recent years as a potential route for driving…”
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Balancing Near-Field Enhancement, Absorption, and Scattering for Effective Antenna–Reactor Plasmonic Photocatalysis
Published in Nano letters (14-06-2017)“…Efficient photocatalysis requires multifunctional materials that absorb photons and generate energetic charge carriers at catalytic active sites to facilitate…”
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Plasmons at the interface
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (07-08-2015)“…Extraction of light-induced electrons is enhanced by interface control [Also see Report by Wu et al. ] Absorption of photons by solid materials is critical for…”
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Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity
Published in Nature materials (01-07-2019)“…The use of oxide-supported isolated Pt-group metal atoms as catalytic active sites is of interest due to their unique reactivity and efficient metal…”
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Support Induced Control of Surface Composition in Cu–Ni/TiO2 Catalysts Enables High Yield Co-Conversion of HMF and Furfural to Methylated Furans
Published in ACS catalysis (02-06-2017)“…5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) and furfural (FF) have been identified as valuable biomass-derived fuel precursors suitable for catalytic hydrodeoxygenation…”
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Controlling Catalytic Selectivity on Metal Nanoparticles by Direct Photoexcitation of Adsorbate–Metal Bonds
Published in Nano letters (10-09-2014)“…Engineering heterogeneous metal catalysts for high selectivity in thermal driven reactions typically involves the synthesis of nanostructures with…”
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Shape- and Size-Specific Chemistry of Ag Nanostructures in Catalytic Ethylene Epoxidation
Published in ChemCatChem (11-01-2010)“…Catalytic selectivity in the epoxidation of ethylene to form ethylene oxide on alumina‐supported silver catalysts is dependent on the geometric structure of…”
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