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Nitridic and Carbidic Interstitial Pd Nanoparticles for Directed Catalysis

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Peter Wells

Professor

Research interests

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Operando Spectroscopy
  • Nanoparticle Design
Connect with Peter

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Marina Carravetta

Professor

Research interests

  • Solid state magic-angle spinning NMR
  • Quantum Technology for Magnetic Resonance
  • High temperature and/or high pressure NMR
Connect with Marina

Email: [email protected]

Professor Chris Skylaris

Professor of Computational Chemistry

Research interests

  • Development of large-scale electronic structure methods, based on Density Functional Theory within the ONETEP program (onetep.org)
  • Development of atomistic and multiscale simulation methods for materials using quantum and classical methods, and machine-learned potentials
  • Application of these simulation methods to discover advanced materials in technologically relevant problems such as batteries, hydrogen fuel cells and drud optimisation
Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3
Donato Decarolis, Monik Panchal, Matthew Quesne, Khaled Mohammed, Shaojun Xu, Mark Isaacs, Adam H. Clark, Luke Keenan, Takuo Wakisaka, Kohei Kusada, Hiroshi Kitagawa, C. Richard A. Catlow, Emma K. Gibson, Alexandre Goguet & Peter P. Wells, 2024, Nature Catalysis, 7(7), 829-837
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01181-w
Type: article
Structural selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles: selective ethanol ammoxidation to acetonitrile
Khaled Mohammed, Reza Vakili, Donato Decarolis, Shaojun Xu, Luke Keenan, Apostolos Kordatos, Nikolay Zhelev, Chris K. Skylaris, Marina Carravetta, Emma K. Gibson, Haresh Manyar, Alexandre Goguet & Peter P. Wells, 2024, EES Catalysis, 2(4), 987-996
DOI: 10.1039/d4ey00044g
Type: article
Atomistic simulations on the carbidisation processes in Pd nanoparticles
Apostolos Kordatos, Khaled Mohammed, Reza Vakili, Alexandre Goguet, Haresh Manyar, Emma Gibson, Marina Carravetta, Peter Wells & Chris Kriton Skylaris, 2023, RSC Advances, 13(9), 5619-5626
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra07462a
Type: article