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Zhang Y, Ma Y, Sun W, Li W, Li G. Structural and Electronic Chirality in Inorganic Crystals: from Construction to Application. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202400436. [PMID: 38571318 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
Abstract
Chirality represents a fundamental characteristic inherent in nature, playing a pivotal role in the emergence of homochirality and the origin of life. While the principles of chirality in organic chemistry are well-documented, the exploration of chirality within inorganic crystal structures continues to evolve. This ongoing development is primarily due to the diverse nature of crystal/amorphous structures in inorganic materials, along with the intricate symmetrical and asymmetrical relationships in the geometry of their constituent atoms. In this review, we commence with a summary of the foundational concept of chirality in molecules and solid states matters. This is followed by an introduction of structural chirality and electronic chirality in three-dimensional and two-dimensional inorganic materials. The construction of chirality in inorganic materials is classified into physical photolithography, wet-chemistry method, self-assembly, and chiral imprinting. Highlighting the significance of this field, we also summarize the research progress of chiral inorganic materials for applications in optical activity, enantiomeric recognition and chiral sensing, selective adsorption and enantioselective separation, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, and chirality-induced spin polarization. This review aims to provide a reference for ongoing research in chiral inorganic materials and potentially stimulate innovative strategies and novel applications in the realm of chirality.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yudi Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CISRI & NIMTE Joint Innovation Center for Rare Earth Permanent Magnets, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Ningbo, 315201, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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Surface structure-sensitivity dependence and mechanistic study of the glucose electro-oxidation on Pt stepped surfaces in neutral solution (pH 7). J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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da Silva KN, Soffiati G, da Silva EZ, San-Miguel MA, Sitta E. Using the site-knockout strategy to understand the low activity of the nitrate electro-reduction reaction on Pt(111). NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj01773c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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While nitrite reduction proceeds on surfaces with less than three contiguous Pt(111)-sites, the nitrate reduction is inhibited on these conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kaline Nascimento da Silva
- Chemistry Department, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235, Sao Carlos, 13565-905, Brazil
- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, 00560, Finland
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- Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas, ZIP code 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Physics “Gleb Wataghin”, State University of Campinas, 13083-859, Campinas - SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas, ZIP code 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Chemistry Department, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Rod. Washington Luis, km 235, Sao Carlos, 13565-905, Brazil
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Wei RL, Liu Y, Chen Z, Jia WS, Yang YY, Cai WB. Ammonia oxidation on iridium electrode in alkaline media: An in situ ATR-SEIRAS study. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Tu K, Morhart TA, Read ST, Rosendahl SM, Burgess IJ. Probing Heterogeneity in Attenuated Total Reflection Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy (ATR-SEIRAS) Response with Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 75:1198-1206. [PMID: 33709793 PMCID: PMC8446892 DOI: 10.1177/00037028211005817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The heterogeneity of metal island films electrodeposited on conductive metal oxide modified internal reflection elements is shown to provide a variable attenuated total reflection surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (ATR-SEIRAS) response. A self-assembled monolayer of a ferrocene-terminated thiol monolayer (FcC11SH) was formed on the gold islands covering a single substrate, which was measured using both a conventional spectrometer and a custom-built horizontal microscope. Cyclic voltammetry and ATR-SEIRAS results reveal that the FcC11SH-modified substrate undergoes a reversible electron transfer and an associated re-orientation of both the ferrocene/ferrocenium headgroup and the hydrocarbon backbone. The magnitude of the absorption signal arising from the redox changes in the monolayer, as well as the IR signature arising from the ingress/egress of the perchlorate counterions, is shown to depend significantly on the size of the infrared beam spot when using a conventional Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. By performing equivalent measurements on a horizontal microscope, the primary cause of the differences in the signal level is found to be the heterogeneity in the density of gold islands on the conductive metal oxide.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kaiyang Tu
- Department of Chemistry, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon,
Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon,
Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Okhokhonin AV, Tokmakova KO, Svalova TS, Matern AI, Kozitsina AN. Electrocatalytic oxidation of glucose in a neutral medium on an electrode modified by carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes and by silver and palladium. Russ Chem Bull 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11172-021-3204-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Zwaschka G, Nahalka I, Marchioro A, Tong Y, Roke S, Campen RK. Imaging the Heterogeneity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Gold Electrodes Operando: Activity is Highly Local. ACS Catal 2020; 10:6084-6093. [PMID: 32551180 PMCID: PMC7295367 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding the mechanism of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the oxidative half of electrolytic
water splitting, has proven challenging. Perhaps the largest hurdle
has been gaining experimental insight into the active site of the
electrocatalyst used to facilitate this chemistry. Decades of study
have clarified that a range of transition-metal oxides have particularly
high catalytic activity for the OER. Unfortunately, for virtually
all of these materials, metal oxidation and the OER occur at similar
potentials. As a result, catalyst surface topography and electronic
structure are expected to continuously evolve under reactive conditions.
Gaining experimental insight into the OER mechanism on such materials
thus requires a tool that allows spatially resolved characterization
of the OER activity. In this study, we overcome this formidable experimental
challenge using second harmonic microscopy and electrochemical methods
to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of OER activity on polycrystalline
Au working electrodes. At moderately anodic potentials, we find that
the OER activity of the electrode is dominated by <1% of the surface
area and that there are two types of active sites. The first is observed
at potentials positive of the OER onset and is stable under potential
cycling (and thus presumably extends multiple layers into the bulk
gold electrode). The second occurs at potentials negative of the OER
onset and is removed by potential cycling (suggesting that it involves
a structural motif only 1–2 Au layers deep). This type of active
site is most easily understood as the catalytically active species
(hydrous oxide) in the so-called incipient hydrous oxide/adatom mediator
model of electrocatalysis. Combining the ability we demonstrate here
to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of OER activity with a systematic
program of electrode surface structural modification offers the possibility
of creating a generation of OER electrocatalysts with unusually high
activity.
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- Gregor Zwaschka
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonics, Institutes of Bioengineering (IBI) and Materials Science and Engineering (IMX), School of Engineering (STI), and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonics, Institutes of Bioengineering (IBI) and Materials Science and Engineering (IMX), School of Engineering (STI), and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
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- Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonics, Institutes of Bioengineering (IBI) and Materials Science and Engineering (IMX), School of Engineering (STI), and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
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Farias MJS, Busó-Rogero C, Tanaka AA, Herrero E, Feliu JM. Monitoring of CO Binding Sites on Stepped Pt Single Crystal Electrodes in Alkaline Solutions by in Situ FTIR Spectroscopy. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:704-714. [PMID: 31846345 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The site geometry preference of CO binding on stepped Pt single crystals in alkaline solution was investigated by in situ FTIR spectroscopy. The surfaces of the Pt single crystals consisted of different width (111) terraces, interrupted by (110) or (100) monatomic steps. Experiments carried out with CO adsorbed exclusively on the top of the steps revealed that only linearly bonded CO formed on the (110) steps, while two CO binding geometries (linear and bridge) were observed on the (100) steps. On one hand, for CO adsorbed only on the steps, the positions of the bands corresponding to linearly bonded CO were similar, regardless of the density of steps, suggesting the existence of an interaction between COads only along the line of the steps. On the other hand, for full CO coverage, the CO stretching frequencies and the geometry of bound CO were sensitive to the width of the (111) terraces and the step orientations. Consequently, the CO binding sites favored linearly bonded CO for surfaces consisting of shorter (111) terraces and (110) steps. Bridge-bonded CO was favored on surfaces consisting of shorter (111) terraces interrupted by (100) steps. In order to understand the origin of the preference of CO binding sites, the results were compared to the corresponding behavior in acid media, which revealed that, in addition to the effect inherent to the Pt surface, the charge on the metal side in an aqueous environment should be taken into consideration. The analysis suggested that the CO adlayers formed at full coverage in acidic and alkaline media had different structures. On the other hand, the structure of the layer of CO adsorbed only at the steps was independent of pH.
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- Manuel J S Farias
- Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Maranhão , Avenida dos Portugueses, 1966 , CEP 65080-805 São Luís , Maranhão , Brazil
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- Instituto de Electroquímica , Universidad de Alicante , Ap. 99 , E-03080 Alicante , Spain
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- Departamento de Química , Universidade Federal do Maranhão , Avenida dos Portugueses, 1966 , CEP 65080-805 São Luís , Maranhão , Brazil
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- Instituto de Electroquímica , Universidad de Alicante , Ap. 99 , E-03080 Alicante , Spain
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- Instituto de Electroquímica , Universidad de Alicante , Ap. 99 , E-03080 Alicante , Spain
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Garnier E, Vidal-Iglesias FJ, Feliu JM, Solla-Gullón J. Surface Structure Characterization of Shape and Size Controlled Pd Nanoparticles by Cu UPD: A Quantitative Approach. Front Chem 2019; 7:527. [PMID: 31417893 PMCID: PMC6684747 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The search for new surface sensitive probes that characterize the surface structure of shape and size-controlled nanoparticles is an interesting topic to properly understand the correlations between electrocatalytic properties and surface structure at the nanoscale. Herein, we report the use of Cu UPD to characterize, not only qualitatively but also quantitatively, the surface structure of different Pd nanoparticles with controlled particle shape and size. Thus, Pd nanoparticles with cubic, octahedral and rhombic dodecahedral shapes, that is, with preferential {100}, {111}, and {110} surface structures, respectively, were prepared. In addition, cubic Pd nanoparticles with different particles sizes and spherical (2–3 nm) Pd nanoparticles were also synthesized. Based on the Cu UPD results on Pd single crystals, a new approach is proposed to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the percentages of {100}, {111}, and {110} surface domains present at the surface of the different shape and size controlled Pd nanoparticles. The results reported clearly show the benefits of this Cu UPD to get detailed information of the surface structure of the nanoparticles according to their particle shape and size.
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- Emmanuel Garnier
- Instituto de Electroquímica, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto de Electroquímica, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto de Electroquímica, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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