OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Catalysis is 116. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Computational Redesign of a PETase for Plastic Biodegradation under Ambient Condition by the GRAPE Strategy	349
Enhanced Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production over Carbon Nitride by Doping and Defect Engineering	330
Atomically Dispersed Fe–Co Dual Metal Sites as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries	300
MXenes: New Horizons in Catalysis	280
Open Catalyst 2020 (OC20) Dataset and Community Challenges	266
CO₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol over In₂O₃-Based Catalysts: From Mechanism to Catalyst Development	255
Density Functional Theory Calculations for Insight into the Heterocatalyst Reactivity and Mechanism in Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation Reactions	253
NiCo-Based Electrocatalysts for the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Review	251
Structure Sensitivity of Pd Facets for Enhanced Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia	247
Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C–C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Cu₂O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy	247
Metal–Support Interactions in Metal/Oxide Catalysts and Oxide–Metal Interactions in Oxide/Metal Inverse Catalysts	247
Photocatalytic CO₂Reduction: A Review of Ab Initio Mechanism, Kinetics, and Multiscale Modeling Simulations	247
Spin-State-Dependent Peroxymonosulfate Activation of Single-Atom M–N Moieties via a Radical-Free Pathway	238
Single Electron Transfer-Induced Redox Processes Involving N-(Acyloxy)phthalimides	235
Advances in the Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts and Thermocatalytic Processes for CO₂ Utilization	228
Embedding CdS@Au into Ultrathin Ti_3–xC₂T_y to Build Dual Schottky Barriers for Photocatalytic H₂ Production	226
Theoretical Insights into Superior Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia Performance of Copper Catalysts	217
Recent Advances in Noncontact External-Field-Assisted Photocatalysis: From Fundamentals to Applications	216
Insight on Reaction Pathways of Photocatalytic CO₂ Conversion	210
Spillover in Heterogeneous Catalysis: New Insights and Opportunities	209
Enhanced Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Activity over NH₂-MIL-125(Ti) by Facet Regulation	206
Essential Role of the Support for Nickel-Based CO₂ Methanation Catalysts	202
Synergistic Effects for Enhanced Catalysis in a Dual Single-Atom Catalyst	202
Transition Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp²)–H Bond Functionalization	201
The Critical Impacts of Ligands on Heterogeneous Nanocatalysis: A Review	200

Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia on Low-Cost Ultrathin CoO_x Nanosheets	195
Platinum Single Atoms Anchored on a Covalent Organic Framework: Boosting Active Sites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution	190
Ceria-Based Materials for Thermocatalytic and Photocatalytic Organic Synthesis	190
Single Atomic Cerium Sites with a High Coordination Number for Efficient Oxygen Reduction in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells	187
Recent Advances in Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation with Formic Acid over Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysts	185
Direct Attack and Indirect Transfer Mechanisms Dominated by Reactive Oxygen Species for Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production on g-C₃N₄ Possessing Nitrogen Vacanci	176
Atomically Dispersed Ni/Cu Dual Sites for Boosting the CO₂ Reduction Reaction	174
Interfacial Electrolyte Effects on Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction	172
Engineering the Local Microenvironment over Bi Nanosheets for Highly Selective Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO₂ to HCOOH in Strong Acid	172
Challenges and Opportunities in Multicatalysis	171
Constructing a Hetero-interface Composed of Oxygen Vacancy-Enriched Co₃O₄ and Crystalline–Amorphous NiFe-LDH for Oxygen Evolution Reaction	170
Atomic Fe Dispersed Hierarchical Mesoporous Fe–N–C Nanostructures for an Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction	170
Origin of the Enhanced Reusability and Electron Transfer of the Carbon-Coated Mn₃O₄ Nanocube for Persulfate Activation	169
Engineering Cobalt Oxide with Coexisting Cobalt Defects and Oxygen Vacancies for Enhanced Catalytic Oxidation of Toluene	168
Boosted Photocatalytic Oxidation of Toluene into Benzaldehyde on CdIn₂S₄-CdS: Synergetic Effect of Compact Heterojunction and S-Vacancy	167
Mechanism of Ce-Modified Birnessite-MnO₂ in Promoting SO₂ Poisoning Resistance for Low-Temperature NH₃-SCR	166
Nanocarbon-Based Catalytic Ozonation for Aqueous Oxidation: Engineering Defects for Active Sites and Tunable Reaction Pathways	166
Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction on Oxide-Derived Silver with Tunable Selectivity to Nitrite and Ammonia	166
Fundamental Studies of Planar Single-Crystalline Oxide Model Electrodes (RuO₂, IrO₂) for Acidic Water Splitting	164
Stabilizing Cu⁺ in Cu/SiO₂ Catalysts with a Shattuckite-Like Structure Boosts CO₂ Hydrogenation into Methanol	163
OperandoMethods in Electrocatalysis	159
W–N Bonds Precisely Boost Z-Scheme Interfacial Charge Transfer in g-C₃N₄/WO₃ Heterojunctions for Enhanced Photocatalytic H₂ Evolution	159
Efficient Photoredox-Mediated C–C Coupling Organic Synthesis and Hydrogen Production over Engineered Semiconductor Quantum Dots	159
Morphology Effects of CeO₂ Nanomaterials on the Catalytic Combustion of Toluene: A Combined Kinetics and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Study	158
Ultrahigh Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity Achieved Using Ir Single Atoms on Amorphous CoO_x Nanosheets	158
Hydrophobic Copper Interfaces Boost Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene in Water	156
Radical NHC Catalysis	154
Polypropylene Plastic Waste Conversion to Lubricants over Ru/TiO₂ Catalysts	153
Rational Design of Chemical Catalysis for Plastic Recycling	152
Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu–Ag Tandem Catalysts	152
Single-Atom Catalysts Designed and Prepared by the Atomic Layer Deposition Technique	150
Facile Cr³⁺-Doping Strategy Dramatically Promoting Ru/CeO₂ for Low-Temperature CO₂ Methanation: Unraveling the Roles of Surface Oxygen Vacancies and Hydroxyl Groups	150
Perovskite Oxide Based Electrodes for the Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions: The Underlying Mechanism	150
Mechanism-Based Design of Efficient PET Hydrolases	148
Step-by-Step Mechanism Insights into the TiO₂/Ce₂S₃ S-Scheme Photocatalyst for Enhanced Aniline Production with Water as a Proton Source	148
Recent Advances in Homogeneous Catalysts for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Heteroarenes	147
The Confined Interlayer Growth of Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Fe₃O₄ Nanosheets with Enriched Oxygen Vacancies for Peroxymonosulfate Activation	147
Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Coupled with 4-Nitrophenol Hydrogenation in a Water System	146
Elucidation of Active Sites for CH₄ Catalytic Oxidation over Pd/CeO₂ Via Tailoring Metal–Support Interactions	145
Investigation into the Enhanced Catalytic Oxidation of o-Xylene over MOF-Derived Co₃O₄ with Different Shapes: The Role of Surface Twofold-Coordinate Lattice Oxygen (O	144
Co Single Atoms in ZrO₂ with Inherent Oxygen Vacancies for Selective Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CO	144
Pathway Manipulation via Ni, Co, and V Ternary Synergism to Realize High Efficiency for Urea Electrocatalytic Oxidation	142
Carbon-Based Materials for Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to C₂₊ Oxygenates: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges	142
Frustrated Lewis Pairs Boosting Low-Temperature CO₂ Methanation Performance over Ni/CeO₂ Nanocatalysts	142
Polyoxometalate@Metal–Organic Framework Composites as Effective Photocatalysts	142
Recent Progress on Rational Design of Bimetallic Pd Based Catalysts and Their Advanced Catalysis	141
Light-Promoted CO₂ Conversion from Epoxides to Cyclic Carbonates at Ambient Conditions over a Bi-Based Metal–Organic Framework	141
Chemical Vapor Deposition for N/S-Doped Single Fe Site Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells	140
Theoretical Inspection of M₁/PMA Single-Atom Electrocatalyst: Ultra-High Performance for Water Splitting (HER/OER) and Oxygen Reduction Reactions (OER)	140
Fabrication of Robust Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven H₂ Evolution	139

Electrocatalytic Valorization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Plastic and CO₂ for Simultaneous Production of Formic Acid	139
Liquid–Solid Boundaries Dominate Activity of CO₂ Reduction on Gas-Diffusion Electrodes	137
Triple Functions of Ni(OH)₂ on the Surface of WN Nanowires Remarkably Promoting Electrocatalytic Activity in Full Water Splitting	136
Interfacial Engineering of Ni₃N/Mo₂N Heterojunctions for Urea-Assisted Hydrogen Evolution Reaction	135
3d-Orbital Occupancy Regulated Ir-Co Atomic Pair Toward Superior Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis	134
Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ with H₂O Mediated by Ce-Tailored Bismuth Oxybromide Surface Frustrated Lewis Pairs	134
Crystalline Intramolecular Ternary Carbon Nitride Homojunction for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution	134
High-Entropy Alloy with Mo-Coordination as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction	133
Highly Active Ir/In₂O₃ Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol: Experimental and Theoretical Studies	133
Pd Supported on MIL-68(In)-Derived In₂O₃ Nanotubes as Superior Catalysts to Boost CO₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol	132
Selective Photo-oxidation of Methane to Methanol with Oxygen over Dual-Cocatalyst-Modified Titanium Dioxide	132
Construction of K⁺ Ion Gradient in Crystalline Carbon Nitride to Accelerate Exciton Dissociation and Charge Separation for Visible Light H₂ Production	132
Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Performance of a CdS-Based Photocatalyst: In Situ Transition from Type I to Type II Heterojunction during Photocatalysis	130
Tuning Charge Distribution of FeN₄ via External N for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction	130
Frustrated Lewis Pair Sites Boosting CO₂ Photoreduction on Cs₂CuBr₄ Perovskite Quantum Dots	129
Electrochemical Construction of Low-Crystalline CoOOH Nanosheets with Short-Range Ordered Grains to Improve Oxygen Evolution Activity	129
In–N–In Sites Boosting Interfacial Charge Transfer in Carbon-Coated Hollow Tubular In₂O₃/ZnIn₂S₄ Heterostructure Derived from In-MOF for Enhanced Photocatal	128
Vitamin C-Assisted Synthesized Mn–Co Oxides with Improved Oxygen Vacancy Concentration: Boosting Lattice Oxygen Activity for the Air-Oxidation of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural	127
Low-Temperature Methane Oxidation for Efficient Emission Control in Natural Gas Vehicles: Pd and Beyond	127
Electrolyte Effects on the Faradaic Efficiency of CO₂ Reduction to CO on a Gold Electrode	126
Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene with Soft Oxidants via Heterogeneous Catalysis	126
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Functionalization of Alkynes with Organoboron Reagents: New Trends, Mechanistic Insights, and Applications	126
Host, Suppressor, and Promoter—The Roles of Ni and Fe on Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity and Stability of NiFe Alloy Thin Films in Alkaline Media	126
Origin of the Activity of Co–N–C Catalysts for Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes	126
Visible-Light Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Using Metal-Organic Framework Derived Ni(OH)₂ Nanocages: A Synergy from Multiple Light Reflection, Static Charge Transfer, and Oxygen V	125
Heterolytic Dissociation of H₂ in Heterogeneous Catalysis	125
Understanding Cation Trends for Hydrogen Evolution on Platinum and Gold Electrodes in Alkaline Media	123
Water-Fed Hydroxide Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer Enabled by a Fluoride-Incorporated Nickel–Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Electrode	123
Acid Stability and Demetalation of PGM-Free ORR Electrocatalyst Structures from Density Functional Theory: A Model for “Single-Atom Catalyst” Dissolution	121
Iron-Catalyzed Photoinduced LMCT: A 1° C–H Abstraction Enables Skeletal Rearrangements and C(sp³)–H Alkylation	121
Probing the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Intermediates and Dynamic Active Site Structures of Molecular and Pyrolyzed Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy	120
Hydrogen Peroxide Generation with 100% Faradaic Efficiency on Metal-Free Carbon Black	119
Enhancement of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Pt by Tuning Its d-Band Center via Transition Metal Oxide Support Interactions	119
Stable Black Phosphorus Encapsulation in Porous Mesh-like UiO-66 Promoted Charge Transfer for Photocatalytic Oxidation of Toluene and o-Dichlorobenzene: Performance, Degradation Pathway, and Me	118
Phosphorus-Driven Electron Delocalization on Edge-Type FeN₄ Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction in Acid Medium	118
Engineering the Coordination Environment of Single Cobalt Atoms for Efficient Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions	118
Coadsorption of NRR and HER Intermediates Determines the Performance of Ru-N₄ toward Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction	118
Exploiting Remarkable Reactivities of Ynamides: Opportunities in Designing Catalytic Enantioselective Reactions	117
Simultaneously Engineering the Synergistic-Effects and Coordination-Environment of Dual-Single-Atomic Iron/Cobalt-sites as a Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries	117
Photoelectron Transfer Mediated by the Interfacial Electron Effects for Boosting Visible-Light-Driven CO₂ Reduction	116
Aromatics Production via Methanol-Mediated Transformation Routes	116
Constructing a Graphene-Encapsulated Amorphous/Crystalline Heterophase NiFe Alloy by Microwave Thermal Shock for Boosting the Oxygen Evolution Reaction	116
Single-Atom and Bimetallic Nanoalloy Supported on Nanotubes as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Ultrahigh-Current-Density Overall Water Splitting	116