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Environmental catalysis

At suncat we are interested in understanding fundamental surface processes invovled in a number of heterogeneous catalytic reactions for environmental remediation and sustainable processes. This involves for example the HDS process, the HDN process, direct NO decomposition, CO oxidation, selective catalytic reduction and absorption of heavy metals in exhaust gasses.

Publications
Co-Designing Electrocatalytic Systems with Separations To Improve the Sustainability of Reactive Nitrogen Management. Valerie Niemann, Peter Benedek, Jinyu Guo, Y. Xu, Sarah Blair, Elizabeth Corson, Adam Nielander, Thomas Jaramillo, William Tarpeh. ACS Catalysis. 2023
Highly selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide on transition metal single atom coordination. Kun Jiang, Seoin Back, Austin J. Akey, Chuan Xia, Yongfeng Hu, Wentao Liang, Diane Schaak, Eli Stavitski, Jens K. Nørskov, Samira Siahrostami, Haotian Wang. Nature Communications. 2019
Precious Metal-Free Nickel Nitride Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Melissa E. Kreider, Alessandro Gallo, Seoin Back, Yunzhi Liu, Samira Siahrostami, Dennis Nordlund, Robert Sinclair, Jens K. Nørskov, Laurie A. King, Thomas F. Jaramillo. ACS Applied Materials Interfaces. 2019
CaSnO3: An Electrocatalyst for Two-Electron Water Oxidation Reaction to Form H2O2. So Yeon Park, Hadi Abroshan, Xinjian Shi, Hyun Suk Jung, Samira Siahrostami, Xiaolin Zheng. ACS Energy Letters. 2019
High-efficiency Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Oxidized Carbon Materials . Zhiyi Lu, Guangxu Chen, Samira Siahrostami, Zhihua Chen, Kai Liu, Jin Xie, Lei Liao, Dingchang Lin, Yayuan Liu, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov, Yi Cui. Nature Catalysis. 2017
Understanding Activity Trends in Electrochemical Water Oxidation to form Hydrogen Peroxide. Xinjian Shi, Samira Siahrostami, Guo-Ling Li, Yirui Zhang, Pongkarn Chakthranont, Felix Studt, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Xiaolin Zheng, Jens K. Nørskov. Nature Communications. 2017
Monodisperse Pt/Pd Bimetallic Nanocrystals Demonstrate Platinum Effect on Palladium Methane Combustion Activity and Stability. Emmett D. Goodman, Sheng Dai, An-Chih Yang, Cody J. Wrasman, Alessandro Gallo, Simon R. Bare, Adam S. Hoffman, Thomas F. Jaramillo, George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan, Matteo Cargnello. ACS Catalysis. 2017
One- or Two-electron Water Oxidation, Hydroxyl Radical or H2O2 Evolution. Samira Siahrostami, Guo-Ling Li, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2017
Development of a reactor with carbon catalysts for modular-scale, low-cost electrochemical generation of H 2 O 2. Zhihua Chen, Shucheng Chen, Samira Siahrostami, Pongkarn Chakthranont, Christopher Hahn, Dennis Nordlund, Sokaras Dimosthenis, Jens K. Nørskov, Zhenan Bao, Thomas F. Jaramillo. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 2017
On the Structure Sensitivity of Direct NO Decomposition over Low-Index Transition Metal Facets. Hanne Falsig, Juan Shen, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Wei Guo, Glenn Jones, Søren Dahl, Thomas Bligaard. Topics in Catalysis. 2014
The Catalyst Genome. Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas Bligaard. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2013
Sulfur poisoning and regeneration of the Ag/?-Al2O3 catalyst for H2-assisted SCR of NOx by ammonia. Dmitry E. Doronkin, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Thomas Bligaard, Sebastian Fogel, Pär Gabrielsson, Søren Dahl. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 2012
Study of the "Fast SCR"-like mechanism of H2-assisted SCR of NOx with ammonia over Ag/Al2O3. Dmitry E. Doronkin, Sebastian Fogel, Stefanie Tamm, Louise Olsson, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Thomas Bligaard, Pär Gabrielsson, Søren Dahl. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 2012
A theoretical evaluation of possible transition metal electro-catalysts for N2 reduction. Egill Skúlason, Thomas Bligaard, Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir, Felix Studt, Jan Rossmeisl, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Tejs Vegge, Hannes Jónssonac, Jens K. Nørskov. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2012
Density functional theory in surface chemistry and catalysis. Jens K. Nørskov, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Felix Studt, Thomas Bligaard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011