Xinwen Guo

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the recent advances in energy-efficient CO2 conversion, especially focusing on structure-activity relationship, is provided as well as the importance of combining catalytic measurements, in situ characterization, and theoretical studies in understanding reaction mechanisms and identifying key descriptors for designing improved catalysts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of advances in CO2 hydrogenation to hydrocarbons that have been achieved recently in terms of catalyst design, catalytic performance and reaction mechanism from both experiments and density functional theory calculations.

TL;DR: One-step pyrolysis was used to synthesize ultra-small clusters and single-atom Fe sites embedded in graphitic carbon nitride with high density and drastically increased metal site density, which provide useful insights into the design and synthesis of cluster catalysts for practical application in catalytic oxidation reactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Pd-Cu bimetallic catalysts for selective CO2 hydrogenation to methanol were characterized by using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive Xray spectroscopy, Xray photoelectron spectrograph, and hydrogen temperature-programmed desorption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Co catalysts supported on ZrO2 and Al2O3 show good initial activity for CO2 methanation, however, the 10Co/Al 2O3 catalyst gave a lower CO2 conversion of 77.8% which decreased to 38.6% after 300h TOS.