Selected Publications

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  • Sun, X.; Dawson, S. R.; Parmentier, T. E.; Malta, G.; Davies, T. E.; He, Q.; Lu, L.; Morgan, D. J.; Carthey, N.; Johnston, P.; Kondrat, S. A.; Freakley, S. J.; Kiely, C. J.; Hutchings, G. J. Facile Synthesis of Precious-Metal Single-Site Catalysts Using Organic Solvents. Nature Chemistry 2020, 1–8. (Link)
  • Sankar, M.; He, Q.; Engel, R. V.; Sainna, M. A.; Logsdail, A. J.; Roldan, A.; Willock, D. J.; Agarwal, N.; Kiely, C. J.; Hutchings, G. J. Role of the Support in Gold-Containing Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalysts. Chemical Reviews 2020. (Link)
  • Liu, S.; Gow, I.; Davies, T.; Barnes, A.; Sankar, M.; Gong, X.; Howe, A. G. R.; Dixon, M.; Hutchings, G. J.; Kiely, C. J.; He, Q. Probing Composition Distributions in Nanoalloy Catalysts with Correlative Electron Microscopy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 108, 845. (Link)
  • Wang, Y.; Furukawa, S.; Song, S.; He, Q.; Asakura, H.; Yan, N. Catalytic Production of Alanine from Waste Glycerol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59 (6), 2289–2293. (Link)
  • Macino, M.; Barnes, A. J.; Althahban, S. M.; Qu, R.; Gibson, E. K.; Morgan, D. J.; Freakley, S. J.; Dimitratos, N.; Kiely, C. J.; Gao, X.; Beale, A. M.; Bethell, D.; He, Q.; Sankar, M.; Hutchings, G. J. Tuning of Catalytic Sites in Pt/TiO2 Catalysts for the Chemoselective Hydrogenation of 3-Nitrostyrene. Nature Catalysis 2019, 2 (10), 873–881. (Link)
  • Xu, R.; Kang, L.; Knossalla, J.; Mielby, J.; Wang, Q.; Wang, B.; Feng, J.; He, G.; Qin, Y.; Xie, J.; Swertz, A.; He, Q.; Kegnæs, S.; Brett, D. J. L.; Schüth, F.; Wang. F. R. Nanoporous Carbon: Liquid-Free Synthesis and Geometry-Dependent Catalytic Performance. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (2), 2463–2472. (Link)
  • Carter, J. H.; Liu, X.; He, Q.; Althahban, S.; Nowicka, E.; Freakley, S. J.; Niu, L.; Morgan, D. J.; Li, Y.; Niemantsverdriet, J. W. H.; Stanislaw, G.; Kiely, C. J.; Hutchings, G. J. Activation and Deactivation of Gold/Ceria-Zirconia in the Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56 (50), 16037–16041. (Link)
  • Agarwal, N.; Freakley, S. J.; McVicker, R. U.; Althahban, S. M.; Dimitratos, N.; He, Q.; Morgan, D. J.; Jenkins, R. L.; Willock, D. J.; Taylor, S. H.; Kiely, C. J.; Hutchings, G. J. Aqueous Au-Pd Colloids Catalyze Selective CH4 Oxidation to CH3OH with O2 under Mild Conditions. Science 2017, 358 (6360), 223–227. (Link)
  • Zhan, W.; He, Q.; Liu, X.; Guo, Y.; Wang, Y.; Wang, L.; Guo, Y.; Borisevich, A. Y.; Zhang, J.; Lu, G.; Dai, S.; A Sacrificial Coating Strategy Toward Enhancement of Metal-Support Interaction for Ultrastable Au Nanocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138 (49), 16130–16139. (Link)
  • He, Q.; Freakley, S. J.; Edwards, J. K.; Carley, A. F.; Borisevich, A. Y.; Mineo, Y.; Haruta, M.; Hutchings, G. J.; Kiely, C. J. Population and Hierarchy of Active Species in Gold Iron Oxide Catalysts for Carbon Monoxide Oxidation. Nature Communications 2016, 7, 12905. (Link)
  • Freakley, S. J.; He, Q.; Harrhy, J. H.; Lu, L.; Crole, D. A.; Morgan, D. J.; Ntainjua, E. N.; Edwards, J. K.; Carley, A. F.; Borisevich, A. Y.; Kiely, C. J.; Hutchings, G. J. Palladium-Tin Catalysts for the Direct Synthesis of H2O2 with High Selectivity. Science 2016, 351 (6276), 965–968. (Link)
  • He, Q.; Ishikawa, R.; Lupini, A. R.; Qiao, L.; Moon, E. J.; Ovchinnikov, O.; May, S. J.; Biegalski, M. D.; Borisevich, A. Y. Towards 3D Mapping of BO6 Octahedron Rotations at Perovskite Heterointerfaces, Unit Cell by Unit Cell. ACS Nano 2015, 9 (8), 8412–8419. (Link)
  • Belianinov, A.; He, Q.; Kravchenko, M.; Jesse, S.; Borisevich, A.; Kalinin, S. V. Identification of Phases, Symmetries and Defects through Local Crystallography. Nature Communications 2015, 6, 7801. (Link)
  • He, Q.; Woo, J.; Belianinov, A.; Guliants, V. V.; Borisevich, A. Y. Better Catalysts through Microscopy: Mesoscale M1/M2 Intergrowth in Molybdenum-Vanadium Based Complex Oxide Catalysts for Propane Ammoxidation. ACS Nano 2015, 9 (4), 3470–3478. (Link)