Yiming Huang

TL;DR: In this article, irradiation with light can significantly enhance the intrinsic catalytic performance of supported nanoparticles (NPs) at ambient temperatures for several types of reactions, which can also effectively couple thermal and light energy sources to accelerate chemical transformations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the discovery of highly efficient and green photocatalytic processes by which cross-coupling reactions, including Sonogashira, Stille, Hiyama, Ullmann, and Buchwald-Hartwig reactions, can be driven with visible light at temperatures slightly above room temperature using alloy nanoparticles of gold and Pd on zirconium oxide, thus achieving high yields.

TL;DR: In this article, an efficient photocatalytic process using supported silver-copper alloy nanoparticles (Ag-Cu alloy NPs) to selectively transform nitrobenzene to azoxybenzenes by visible light irradiation under green mild reaction conditions was reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, visible light irradiation of gold-palladium alloy nanoparticles supported on photocatalytically inert ZrO2 significantly enhances their catalytic activity for oxidant-free dehydrogenation of aromatic alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes at ambient temperatures.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that copper nanoparticles supported on titanium nitride (TiN) without additional stabilizers not only are stable in air but also can catalyze selective epoxidation of various alkenes with O2 or even air as a benign oxidant under light irradiation.