Yingcen Liu

Confinement of Au3+-Rich Clusters by Silicalite-1 for Selective Solvent-Free Oxidation of Toluene Selective oxidation of the primary carbon-hydrogen bonds in the methyl group of toluene to corresponding oxygenates is of immense significance. This transformation, however, remains challenging and often requires either extensive optimization of the present chemical operating process or, more importantly, the design and development of novel catalysts.

Controlling solubility: a chemical approach toward preparing nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanospheres† Nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanospheres have attracted considerable attention in various fields such as catalysis, biomedicine, adsorption and energy storage/conversion. The most widely used methods used to prepare these materials are template-based routes, however, the operating procedures are tedious and the mechanism of their formation is still unclear.

N-containing porous carbon was facilely synthesized by carbonization of melamine colloidal spheres and further activation with K2CO3. The nonactivated porous carbon exhibits excellent CO2 adsorption selectivity with an ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) selectivity factor of 129 (CO2/N2 = 15:85, 1 bar, 25 °C) and great CO2 capture capacity (1.26 mmol/g), at low pressure (0.15 bar, 25 °C).