Yuta Yamamoto

TL;DR: Atomic insights of the NPG catalysis are reported, characterized by spherical-aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and environmental TEM, which provide compelling evidence that the surface defects are active sites for the catalytic oxidation of CO and residual Ag stabilizes the atomic steps by suppressing {111} faceting kinetics.

TL;DR: A structural analysis of Pd nanoparticles using CO adsorption IR spectroscopy and spherical aberration-corrected scanning/transmission electron microscopy found the dependence of catalytic activity on Pd particle size and the alumina crystalline phase was due to the fraction of step sites on PD particle surface.

TL;DR: It was determined that desorption is not induced by salt additives, pH changes, or photoirradiation, which partly explains the high photocatalytic performance of this material.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the generation of unique structure observed on approximately 3 nm Ru nanoparticles, that is, long bridged coordinatively unsaturated Ru metal surface atoms on its nanocrystallite, is a key to achieve high HOR activity.

TL;DR: A gold sub-nano cluster supported on Al2O3 catalyzed hydrogenation of 2-hydroxymethyl-5-furfural without furan ring hydrogenation and its opening reaction was reported in this paper.