{"id":203366,"date":"2025-01-08T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-tune-active-sites-of-bimetallic-catalysts-with-atomic-precision"},"modified":"2025-01-08T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:05:42","slug":"researchers-tune-active-sites-of-bimetallic-catalysts-with-atomic-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/researchers-tune-active-sites-of-bimetallic-catalysts-with-atomic-precision","title":{"rendered":"Researchers tune active sites of bimetallic catalysts with atomic precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-tune-active-sites-of-bimetallic-catalysts-with-atomic-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bimetallic particles, composed of a noble metal and a base metal, exhibit unique catalytic properties in selective heterogeneous hydrogenations due to their distinct geometric and electronic structures. At the molecular level, effective and selective hydrogenation requires site-specific interactions where the active atoms on the catalyst particle selectively engage with the functional group targeted for transformation in the substrate.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the particle to nanoscale atomic clusters and single-atom alloys enhances surface dispersion and improves the efficient utilization of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/noble+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">noble metal<\/a> atoms. These size reductions also simultaneously change the electronic structure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/active+sites\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">active sites<\/a>, which significantly impacts the intrinsic activity or product distributions.<\/p>\n<p>By precisely tuning the bonding structures of noble metal single atoms with the base metal host, reactants are flexibly accommodated and the electronic properties are fine-tuned to activate specific functional groups. However, the fabrication of such atomically precise active sites remains a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bimetallic particles, composed of a noble metal and a base metal, exhibit unique catalytic properties in selective heterogeneous hydrogenations due to their distinct geometric and electronic structures. At the molecular level, effective and selective hydrogenation requires site-specific interactions where the active atoms on the catalyst particle selectively engage with the functional group targeted for transformation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}