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Liu Q, Tan X, Liao X, Lv J, Li X, Chen Z, Yang Y, Wu A, Zhao Y, Wu HB. Self-Limited Formation of Cobalt Nanoparticles for Spontaneous Hydrogen Production through Hydrazine Electrooxidation. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2311741. [PMID: 38470196 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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Hydrogen (H2 ) has emerged as a highly promising energy carrier owing to its remarkable energy density and carbon emission-free properties. However, the widespread application of H2 fuel has been limited by the difficulty of storage. In this work, spontaneous electrochemical hydrogen production is demonstrated using hydrazine (N2 H4 ) as a liquid hydrogen storage medium and enabled by a highly active Co catalyst for hydrazine electrooxidation reaction (HzOR). The HzOR electrocatalyst is developed by a self-limited growth of Co nanoparticles from a Co-based zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF), exhibiting abundant defective surface atoms as active sites for HzOR. Notably, these self-limited Co nanoparticles exhibit remarkable HzOR activity with a negative working potential of -0.1 V (at 10 mA cm-2 ) in 0.1 m N2 H4 /1 m KOH electrolyte. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are employed to validate the superior performance of low-coordinated Co active sites in facilitating HzOR. By taking advantage of the potential difference between HzOR and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), a novel HzOR||HER electrochemical system is developed to spontaneously produce H2 without external energy input. Overall, the work offers valuable guidance for developing active HzOR catalyst. The novel HzOR||HER electrochemical system represents a promising and innovative solution for energy-efficient hydrogen production.
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- Qian Liu
- Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI), State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare Earth Materials, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI), State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI), State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI), State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Clean Energy and Carbon Neutrality of Zhejiang Province, Jiaxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Jiaxing, 314031, P. R. China
- Baima Lake Laboratory, Hangzhou, 310053, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China
- The Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P. R. China
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- Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI), State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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Visualising Co nanoparticle aggregation and encapsulation in Co/TiO2 catalysts and its mitigation through surfactant residues. J Catal 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2023.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Suo Y, Yao Y, Zhang Y, Xing S, Yuan ZY. Recent advances in cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts. J IND ENG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2022.08.026] [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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van Etten MPC, Zijlstra B, Hensen EJM, Filot IAW. Enumerating Active Sites on Metal Nanoparticles: Understanding the Size Dependence of Cobalt Particles for CO Dissociation. ACS Catal 2021; 11:8484-8492. [PMID: 34306814 PMCID: PMC8294015 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Detailed understanding of structure sensitivity, a central theme in heterogeneous catalysis, is important to guide the synthesis of improved catalysts. Progress is hampered by our inability to accurately enumerate specific active sites on ubiquitous metal nanoparticle catalysts. We employ herein atomistic simulations based on a force field trained with quantum-chemical data to sample the shape of cobalt particles as a function of their size. Algorithms rooted in pattern recognition are used to identify surface atom arrangements relevant to CO dissociation, the key step in the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reaction. The number of step-edge sites that can catalyze C-O bond scission with a low barrier strongly increases for larger nanoparticles in the range of 1-6 nm. Combined with microkinetics of the FT reaction, we can reproduce experimental FT activity trends. The stabilization of step-edge sites correlates with increasing stability of terrace nanoislands on larger nanoparticles.
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- Michel P. C. van Etten
- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Het Kranenveld 14, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Het Kranenveld 14, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Het Kranenveld 14, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Het Kranenveld 14, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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Schumann M, Nielsen MR, Smitshuysen TEL, Hansen TW, Damsgaard CD, Yang ACA, Cargnello M, Grunwaldt JD, Jensen AD, Christensen JM. Rationalizing an Unexpected Structure Sensitivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis—CO Hydrogenation over Rh as a Case Study. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Max Schumann
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization (Nanolab), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization (Nanolab), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- National Centre for Nano Fabrication and Characterization (Nanolab), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
- Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Li D, Cen B, Fang C, Leng X, Wang W, Wang Y, Chen J, Luo M. High performance cobalt nanoparticle catalysts supported by carbon for ozone decomposition: the effects of the cobalt particle size and hydrophobic carbon support. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj04876c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Catalytic gaseous ozone decomposition under high humidity is not only an urgent need but also a significant challenge because of the low stability over the available catalysts.
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- Dandan Li
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Reactive Chemistry on Solid Surfaces
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Zhejiang Normal University
- Jinhua 321004
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Disk-Shaped Cobalt Nanocrystals as Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts Under Industrially Relevant Conditions. Top Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11244-020-01270-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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AbstractColloidal synthesis of metal nanocrystals (NC) offers control over size, crystal structure and shape of nanoparticles, making it a promising method to synthesize model catalysts to investigate structure-performance relationships. Here, we investigated the synthesis of disk-shaped Co-NC, their deposition on a support and performance in the Fischer–Tropsch (FT) synthesis under industrially relevant conditions. From the NC synthesis, either spheres only or a mixture of disk-shaped and spherical Co-NC was obtained. The disks had an average diameter of 15 nm, a thickness of 4 nm and consisted of hcp Co exposing (0001) on the base planes. The spheres were 11 nm on average and consisted of ε-Co. After mild oxidation, the CoO-NC were deposited on SiO2 with numerically 66% of the NC being disk-shaped. After reduction, the catalyst with spherical plus disk-shaped Co-NC had 50% lower intrinsic activity for FT synthesis (20 bar, 220 °C, H2/CO = 2 v/v) than the catalyst with spherical NC only, while C5+-selectivity was similar. Surprisingly, the Co-NC morphology was unchanged after catalysis. Using XPS it was established that nitrogen-containing ligands were largely removed and in situ XRD revealed that both catalysts consisted of 65% hcp Co and 21 or 32% fcc Co during FT. Furthermore, 3–5 nm polycrystalline domains were observed. Through exclusion of several phenomena, we tentatively conclude that the high fraction of (0001) facets in disk-shaped Co-NC decrease FT activity and, although very challenging to pursue, that metal nanoparticle shape effects can be studied at industrially relevant conditions.
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Rahmati M, Safdari MS, Fletcher TH, Argyle MD, Bartholomew CH. Chemical and Thermal Sintering of Supported Metals with Emphasis on Cobalt Catalysts During Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis. Chem Rev 2020; 120:4455-4533. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Mahmood Rahmati
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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Eshraghi A, Mirzaei AA, Rahimi R, Atashi H. Effect of Ni–Co morphology on kinetics for Fischer–Tropsch reaction in a fixed-bed reactor. J Taiwan Inst Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2019.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Rankin RB. Similarities and differences for atomic and diatomic molecule adsorption on the B-5 type sites of the HCP(101̅6) surfaces of Co, Os, and Ru from DFT calculations. Heliyon 2019; 5:e01924. [PMID: 31508514 PMCID: PMC6726723 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 05/27/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The differences in relative adsorption energies for mono-atomic and diatomic prototype species (C,N,O,S,H,CO,NO,SO,CH,NH,H2,O2) relevant to catalytic processes such as Fischer-Tropsch and Ammonia Synthesis chemistry are investigated on the previously un-studied (101¯6) surface(s) of Co, Os, and Ru. Recent work in the literature has confirmed that catalytically relevant nanoparticles of HCP elements such as Co, Os, and Ru typically possess highly active ‘B5’ sites; unfortunately many early and extant theory and model-ing treatments of "stepped HCP surfaces" use ad-hoc created steps via manual deletion of atoms from an ideal HCP(0001) slab model. To date the differences in adsorption energies at various B5 step edge types, and any possible trends across the same type of B5 sites on various HCP catalyst species has not been thoroughly characterized. Our work in this manuscript uses the low energy (101¯6) Miller Index surface of Co, Os, and Ru which exposes 2 distinct and strongly adsorbing step edge sites, the B5B and B5A step edge which have been reported as relevant in the literature for Cobalt nanoparticle catalysis applications. Results from this study should be used to help further understand atomistic processes on the stepped surfaces of catalytically active HCP elements.
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- Rees B Rankin
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Villanova University, WH 313, 800 E Lancaster Ave, Villanova, 19085, PA, USA
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Pestman R, Chen W, Hensen E. Insight into the Rate-Determining Step and Active Sites in the Fischer–Tropsch Reaction over Cobalt Catalysts. ACS Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Robert Pestman
- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Groene Loper 3, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Groene Loper 3, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Groene Loper 3, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Zhang B, Su H, Liu J, Li W. Interplay Between Site Activity and Density of BCC Iron for Ammonia Synthesis Based on First‐Principles Theory. ChemCatChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Bing‐Yan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis Dalian Institute of Chemical PhysicsChinese Academy of Sciences Dalian 116023 China
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Dalian Institute of Chemical PhysicsChinese Academy of Sciences Dalian 116023 China
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109–2136 USA
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- Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the MicroscaleUniversity of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China
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Goudeli E. Nanoparticle growth, coalescence, and phase change in the gas-phase by molecular dynamics. Curr Opin Chem Eng 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Tsakoumis NE, Patanou E, Lögdberg S, Johnsen RE, Myrstad R, van Beek W, Rytter E, Blekkan EA. Structure–Performance Relationships on Co-Based Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts: The More Defect-Free, the Better. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nikolaos E. Tsakoumis
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Chemical Technology, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Teknikringen 42, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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- The Swiss−Norwegian Beamlines (SNBL) at ESRF, Grenoble F38043, France
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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