Heterogeneous Catalysts

Volume 1 PART I. Evolution of catalysts design and synthesis Facets engineering on catalysts Electrochemical synthesis of nanostructured catalytic thin films Synthesis and design of carbon-supported highly dispersed metal catalysts Metal clusters-based catalysts Single-atom heterogeneous catalysts Synthesis strategies for hierarchical zeolites Design of molecular heterogeneous catalysts with metal-organic frameworks Hierarchical and anisotropic nanostructured catalysts Flame synthesis of simple and multielemental oxide catalysts Band engineering of semiconductors toward visible-light-responsive photocatalysts PART II. Towards precise understanding of catalytic events and materials under working conditions Pressure gaps in heterogeneous catalysis In situ transmission electron microscopy observation of gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces Tomography in catalysts design Resolving catalyst performance at nanoscale via fluorescence microscopy In situ electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in catalysis Toward operando infrared spectroscopy of heterogeneous catalysts Operando X-ray spectroscopies on catalysts in action Methodologies to hunt active sites and active species Ultrafast spectroscopic techniques in photocatalysis Volume 2 PART III. Quantum approaches to predicting molecular reactions on catalytic surfaces Density functional theory in heterogeneous catalysis Ab initio molecular dynamics in heterogeneous catalysis First-principles simulations of electrified interfaces in electrochemistry Time-dependent density functional theory for excited states calculations The GW method for excited states calculations High-throughput computational design of novel catalytic materials PART IV. Embracing the energy and environmental challenges of the 21st Century through heterogeneous catalysis Electrochemical water splitting New visible-light-responsive photocatalysts for water splitting based on mixed anions Electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

Wey Yang Teoh obtained his BE and PhD in Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (Australia). He spent an attachment at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) as part of his PhD studies. In 2010, he joined the School of Energy and Environment at the City University of Hong Kong as tenure-track Assistant Professor, and promoted to Tenured Associate Professor in 2015. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya (Malaysia), with concurrent appointment as Honorary Associate Professor at The University of New South Wales. His research team develops new strategies for rational catalysts design based on fundamental surface and materials engineering, charge transport, and photochemical conversions, with focus on energy and environmental applications. Atsushi Urakawa was born in Japan. He obtained his BSc degree (with one year stay in the USA) in Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University (Japan) and he studied Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) for his MSc degree. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) where he worked as Senior Scientist and Lecturer until he joined ICIQ as Group Leader in Spain in 2010. In 2019, he undertook a new challenge as Professor of Catalysis Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His research team combines fundamental and applied research and focuses on the rational development of heterogeneous catalysts and processes aided by in situ and operando methodologies. Yun Hau Ng is an Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. He received his BSc (Industrial Chemistry) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2003 and his PhD from Osaka University in 2009. He was a lecturer (2014) and senior lecturer (2016) at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His research is focused on the development of novel photoactive semiconductors (particles and thin film)