editorial advanced nanomaterials for catalysis:...

EditorialAdvanced Nanomaterials for Catalysis: Synthesis,Characterization, and Application

Xianwen Zhang,1,2 Xin Zhang,3 Baojuan Xi,4 and Maofeng Zhang5

1 Institute of Advanced Energy Technology and Equipment, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China2Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA3Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA4National University of Singapore, Singapore 1190775Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Xianwen Zhang; xianwen.zhang@ttu.edu

Received 8 October 2015; Accepted 8 October 2015

Copyright © 2015 Xianwen Zhang et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative CommonsAttribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

A great attention is being paid to catalysts which act toenhance the rate or yield of the reaction without beingconsumed by the reaction itself. Catalysis has become a keystrategy in solving many of today’s challenges. Up to now,almost all industrial processes employ catalyst in multipleforms to increase economic viability, frombatteries to refiner-ies. Meanwhile, increased concerns about environmentalpollution have led to the development of novel catalysts,which can catalyze desirable chemical reactions. Catalysisis rather prevalent everywhere as a key enabling technol-ogy in energy conversion, fuel production, production ofchemicals, and environmentalmitigation. On the other hand,nanotechnology has become an indispensable tool ofmaterialengineering for catalysis related applications. Nanoparticleswith controlled morphology and structure have a highersurface area, which provide the best platform to catalyzedesirable chemical transformations and lead to the increasedcatalytic activity. The current barrier for widespread indus-trial and environmental use is ascribed to the controlledsynthesis of nanocrystals with high-energy surfaces and theunderstanding of synthesis-structure-performance relation-ships. Multidisciplinary advances from chemistry, physics,and materials science have played a major role in catalystsynthesis, structural and compositional modification, andmechanistic understanding with molecular and atomic-levelprecision by advanced characterization techniques and mod-eling.

Last year, we invited investigators to contribute originalresearch as well as review articles that address the fieldof advanced nanocatalysts. We encourage manuscripts thatwill concern new progress in controlled synthesis, thoroughunderstanding of the reaction mechanism and cutting-edgecharacterization techniques. Today, we are very happy topublish this special issue of this journal.

In this issue, original research and review articles areaccepted. The research papers focused on nanocatalysts withnovel structure produced by innovative synthetic technolo-gies and detailed kinetic mechanism through experimentsand promising application.

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank all authors who submitted their workto this special issue.

Xianwen ZhangXin ZhangBaojuan Xi

Maofeng Zhang

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