Advances in Nanomaterials for Catalysis: Design Strategies, Reaction Mechanisms, and Emerging Industrial Applications

Abstract

Nanomaterials have transformed the way catalysis can be done giving an exceptional property to control over such catalytic activity, selectivity and also stability thanks to their extraordinary physicochemical nanoscale properties. This is a general overview of all of the recent progress in the design approaches of nanomaterials with specific focus to catalytic application through approaches of size, shape, composition and surface functionalization. We discussed and investigated essential reaction dynamics that went through the bubble of catalyst performance, a dynamics of active sites, electron and adsorption dynamics. Moreover, the article has discussed some of the new industrial uses of nanocatalysts in a broad range of industries like energy conversion, environmental cure, and production of chemical products. Although scale up has been achieved, other challenges that exist are associated with how to scale up the synthesis modes, improve the durability of catalysts, and how to integrate nanomaterials with the ongoing industrial processes. Last but not least, we mentioned about future outlooks which has potential of giving sustainable and efficient catalytic technologies by advance nanomaterial engineering.