Chemistry: A single iron site confined in a graphene matrix for the catalytic oxidation of benzene at room temperature

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Deng, Dehui ^a   Chen, Xiaoqi ^a   Yu, Liang ^a   Wu, Xing ^b   Liu, Qingfei ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Yang, Huaixin ^c   Tian, Huanfang ^c   Hu, Yongfeng ^d   Du, Peipei ^e   Si, Rui ^e   Wang, Junhu ^a   Cui, Xiaoju ^a   Li, Haobo ^a   Xiao, Jianping ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Deng, Jiao ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Duchesne, Paul N ^f   Zhang, Peng ^f   Zhou, Jigang ^d   Sun, Litao ^b   Li, Jianqi ^c   Pan, Xiulian ^a   Bao, Xinhe ^a   more..

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^e SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BENZENE; BENZENE REFINING; CATALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; PHENOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANNULAR DARK FIELD SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BENZENE TO PHENOL; CO-ORDINATIVELY UNSATURATED; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION REACTION; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; NON-PRECIOUS CATALYSTS;

CATALYTIC OXIDATION;

EID: 85040165523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500462     Document Type: Article

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