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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 158, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0137751
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Modern chemical science and industries heavily rely on various catalytic methods, but the molecular mechanisms underlying these processes are not fully understood. Recent experimental advances in nanoparticle catalysts have provided more quantitative descriptions, which help clarify the microscopic picture of catalysis.
Modern chemical science and industries critically depend on the application of various catalytic methods. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of these processes still remain not fully understood. Recent experimental advances that produced highly-efficient nanoparticle catalysts allowed researchers to obtain more quantitative descriptions, opening the way to clarify the microscopic picture of catalysis. Stimulated by these developments, we present a minimal theoretical model that investigates the effect of heterogeneity in catalytic processes at the single-particle level. Using a discrete-state stochastic framework that accounts for the most relevant chemical transitions, we explicitly evaluated the dynamics of chemical reactions on single heterogeneous nanocatalysts with different types of active sites. It is found that the degree of stochastic noise in nanoparticle catalytic systems depends on several factors that include the heterogeneity of catalytic efficiencies of active sites and distinctions between chemical mechanisms on different active sites. The proposed theoretical approach provides a single-molecule view of heterogeneous catalysis and also suggests possible quantitative routes to clarify some important molecular details of nanocatalysts.
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