Heterogeneous Catalysts

Wey Yang Teoh is Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Environment at the City University of Hong Kong, China. After his PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of New South Wales, Australia, he worked as a Research Associate at the Australia Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials. During that time he was awarded the ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also the recipient of the Joseph Wang Award in Nanomaterials in 2016. His research interests focus on energy and environmental-related heterogeneous catalysis and he published more than 60 scientific papers. Atsushi Urakawa is Professor at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain. He obtained his PhD from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. After several years working as Senior Scientist/Lecturer at ETH Zurich, he joined ICIQ as Group Leader where he leads a research group with particular emphasis on heterogeneous catalysis and operando spectroscopy. He serves as the committee members of synchrotron facilities in Europe and Associate Editor of RSC Advances. Yun Hau Ng is Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Osaka University, Japan After a brief research visit to the Radiation Laboratory at University of Notre Dame, USA, he joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials at UNSW with the Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and then became a Lecturer. His research interests focus on novel photoactive semiconductors for sunlight energy conversion. He received the Honda-Fujishima Prize in 2013 in recognition of his work in the area of photo-driven water splitting. Patrick Sit is Assistant Professor in the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong, China. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, USA and a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research is focused on fundamental reaction processes in energy-related systems.

Volume 1

PART I.
Evolution of catalysts design and synthesis
Facets engineering on catalysts
Electrochemical synthesis of nanostructured catalytic thin films
Synthesis and design of carbon-supported highly dispersed metal catalysts
Metal clusters-based catalysts
Single-atom heterogeneous catalysts
Synthesis strategies for hierarchical zeolites
Design of molecular heterogeneous catalysts with metal-organic frameworks
Hierarchical and anisotropic nanostructured catalysts
Flame synthesis of simple and multielemental oxide catalysts
Band engineering of semiconductors toward visible-light-responsive photocatalysts

PART II.
Towards precise understanding of catalytic events and materials under working conditions
Pressure gaps in heterogeneous catalysis
In situ transmission electron microscopy observation of gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces
Tomography in catalysts design
Resolving catalyst performance at nanoscale via fluorescence microscopy
In situ electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in catalysis
Toward operando infrared spectroscopy of heterogeneous catalysts
Operando X-ray spectroscopies on catalysts in action
Methodologies to hunt active sites and active species
Ultrafast spectroscopic techniques in photocatalysis

Volume 2

PART III.
Quantum approaches to predicting molecular reactions on catalytic surfaces
Density functional theory in heterogeneous catalysis
Ab initio molecular dynamics in heterogeneous catalysis
First-principles simulations of electrified interfaces in electrochemistry
Time-dependent density functional theory for excited states calculations
The GW method for excited states calculations
High-throughput computational design of novel catalytic materials

PART IV.
Embracing the energy and environmental challenges of the 21st Century through heterogeneous catalysis
Electrochemical water splitting
New visible-light-responsive photocatalysts for water splitting based on mixed anions
Electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels
Conversion of carbohydrates to high value products
Enhancing sustainability through heterogeneous catalytic conversions at high pressure
Electro-, photo- and photoelectro-chemical reduction of CO2
Photocatalytic abatement of emerging micropollutants in water and wastewater
Catalytic abatement of NOx emissions over the zeolite catalysts