Kulbir Kaur Ghuman

TL;DR: It was found that the surface frustrated Lewis pairs created by a Lewis acidic coordinately unsaturated surface indium site proximal to an oxygen vacancy and a Lewis basic surface hydroxide site in In2O3-x(OH)y become more acidic and basic and hence more active in the ES compared to the GS.

TL;DR: Photochemical CO2 reduction is demonstrated at a rate of 150 μmol gcat(-1) hour(-1), which is four times better than the reduction rate in the dark, and a reaction mechanism is proposed whereby a surface active site of In2O(3-x)(OH)y, composed of a Lewis base hydroxide adjacent to a Lewis acid indium, together with an oxygen vacancy, assists the adsorption and heterolytic dissociation of H2 that enables the

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the dissociation of water on 2D monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) edges with density functional theory.

TL;DR: The observation is reported that hydride-terminated silicon nanocrystals with average diameter 3.5 nm, denoted ncSi:H, can function as a single component heterogeneous reducing agent for converting gaseous carbon dioxide selectively to carbon monoxide, at a rate of hundreds of μmol h−1 g−1.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that isomorphous substitution can effectively optimize the reactivity of surface catalytic active sites in addition to influencing optoelectronic properties, affording a better understanding of the photocatalytic CO2 reduction mechanism.