Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Decoupling the electronic and geometric effects of Pt catalysts in selective hydrogenation reaction

  • Zhe Wang,
  • Chunpeng Wang,
  • Shanjun Mao,
  • Bing Lu,
  • Yuzhuo Chen,
  • Xie Zhang,
  • Zhirong Chen,
  • Yong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31313-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Decoupling the electronic and geometric effects has been a long cherished goal for heterogeneous catalysis due to their tangled relationship. Here the authors propose a novel orthogonal decomposition method to decouple the electronic and geometric effect for supported metal catalysts.