Themed collection Dehydrogenation and oxidation catalysis

The conversion of ethane to ethylene is crucial for deriving platform chemicals from non-petroleum feedstock.

Extended high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts as a platform to investigate electrocatalytic CO oxidation and surface structure–property relations.

Variable-valence element Cu was introduced into bismuth tungstate as electron-trapping sites to facilitate photogenerated hole accumulation for high-efficiency selective oxidative coupling of benzylamines.

The Pt–Mn₂O₃/CN catalyst formed through synthesis via a solvent-thermal method involves a synergistic combination of polymer CN and Pt nanoparticles loaded on Mn₂O₃ to catalyze the degradation of toluene.

We use crystal facet engineering to develop NiCo₂O₄ hexagonal nanosheets with 2 different exposed crystal facets for complete CH₄ oxidation. The {111} exposed facet has better resistance to humidity while the {112} facet has better activity.

Amorphous metal-oxide nanoclusters are investigated using DFT and machine learning for selective oxidation of methane.

A stable Pd⁰/Pd²⁺ arrangement generated on Pd/CeO₂ prepared by mechanochemistry enables high methane activation rates in the absence of excess oxygen being available.

Cr₁–O₄ as an active site in the Cr₁/ZSM-5 SAC can catalyze the DOM to form value-added C1 oxygenated products with a productivity of 21 100 μmol g_cat⁻¹ h⁻¹ and a selectivity of 99.8% at 50 °C within 30 min, which outperforms most state-of-the-art catalysts.

Ethane–CO₂ reaction over a wide range of bimetallic-derived catalysts was adopted to unravel the structure–function relationship over two types of representative structures.