Ran Long

Jan 13, 2025 | nature.com | Guangyu E. Chen |Wanbing Gong |Jun Ma |Chuansheng Hu |Ran Long

AbstractSolar-driven, selective biomass hydrogenation is recognized as a promising route to renewable chemicals production, but remains challenging. Here, we report a TiO2 supported Cu single-atom catalyst with a four-coordinated Cu1−O4 structure, which can be universally applied for solar-driven production of various renewable chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass-derived platform molecules with good yields using green methanol as a hydrogen donor, to address this challenge.

Feb 9, 2024 | nature.com | Yifan Li |Jun Ma |Yi Cui |Rongtan Li |Dong Liu |Ran Long | +1 more

AbstractThe meticulous design of active sites and light absorbers holds the key to the development of high-performance photothermal catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation. Here, we report a nonmetallic plasmonic catalyst of Mo2N/MoO2-x nanosheets by integrating a localized surface plasmon resonance effect with two distinct types of active sites for CO2 hydrogenation.