Metal nanoparticles encapsulation within multi-shell spongy-core porous microspheres for efficient tandem catalysis.

The "one-pot" cascade process involves multiple catalytic conversions followed by a single workup stage. This method has the capability to optimize catalytic efficiency by reducing chemical processes. The key to achieving cascade reactions lies in designing cascade catalysts with well-dispersed, stably immobilized, and accessible noble metal nanoparticles for multiple catalytic conversions.

Oxygen adsorption on high-index faceted Pt nanoparticles.

High-index faceted Pt nanoparticles with excellent electrocatalytic performances are promising to efficiently accelerate the oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells. By adopting the hybrid grand canonical Monte Carlo reactive molecular dynamics (GCMC/RMD) simulations, we examined the oxygen adsorption on three 24-facet nanoparticles respectively enclosed by {310}, {311}, and {331} high-index facets. The site-dependent adsorption energies on each open-structure surface are calculated.