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The authors report a wavelength-gated regeneration strategy, where specific wavelength photogenerated carriers drive the reversible cycling of active sites, enabling highly stable photocatalytic CO₂ reduction to C₂H₆.

Propane oxidative dehydrogenation offers a promising path for propylene production, but selective propylene formation with minimal COx remains challenging. Here, the authors introduce dual-atom catalysts achieving just 5.2% COx selectivity at 46.1% propane conversion (520 °C) with stable performance for over 1000 hours.

The limited durability of metal-nitrogen-carbon electrocatalysts hinders their use in proton exchange membrane fuel cells for the oxygen reduction reaction. Here the authors transform active sites from FeN4 to stable monosymmetric FeN2 + N’2 via chemical vapor modification, resulting in enhanced improving the durability of the catalyst.

Tuning the b-axis length of silicalite-1 crystals allows control over the migration–agglomeration–lockup of active metal species in zeolites, which enables the creation of stable and durable catalysts for propane dehydrogenation in industrial applications.

Advancements in proton-exchange membrane water electrolyzers rely on developing oxygen evolution reaction catalysts with high activity and stability. Here, the authors report a method to enhance the spatiotemporal coordination of oxygen radicals in a Ru-based catalyst for improved performance.

Efficient CO₂ electroreduction to C₂₊ products at high current densities remains a significant challenge. Here, the authors develop inherently hydrophobic and hierarchically porous Cu supraparticles with enhanced mass transfer and abundant C-C coupling sites for ampere-level CO₂-to-C₂₊ synthesis.

In this contribution, the electrocatalytic hydrogen oxidation activity and CO resistance capability of Pt clusters are enhanced through the combination of the electron delocalization effect, which allows W3O/WC to share electrons with Pt clusters, and the oxygen spillover effect.

Water plays a key role in electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction, but the role of catalyst in water management is unknown. Here, the authors report the importance of catalyst in determining the function of water and demonstrate that the catalyst containing Cu⁺ promotes water activation and C₂₊ formation.

Unveiling the regulatory mechanism of regioselectivity in hydroformylation has been a significant challenge. Here the authors successfully demonstrate how hemilabile coordination influences regioselectivity by employing various in situ techniques.

The rational design and synthesis of dual-atom catalysts with structurally uniform and flexible active sites remains challenging. Now the tailored synthesis of a Janus Fe–Co dual-metal catalyst is reported in which the Fe and Co atoms are coordinated to N and O, respectively, and linked through bridging N and O atoms.

Stability of catalyst dopant species under working conditions is often unexplored. Here, the authors reveal that the dopant sites tend to collapse when the applied potential is too negative or too positive and describe a protocol for the in-situ formation of highly efficient active sites via the leaching of dopants.

Direct dehydrogenation has been a thematic research area resulting from the energy shortage and petroleum gas upgrading scenario. Here, the authors fabricate fully exposed Pt₃ clusters and correlate dehydrogenation activity with average coordination number of Pt-Pt bond.