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We are pleased to share the Industrial Chemistry & Materials (ICM) Top 10 articles that gained the most media attention based on the Altmetric attention score of the articles. We hope you enjoy reading these articles!

Launched in Feb. 2023, ICM has been indexed in Chemical Abstracts (CA) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) databases! 76 articles have been online published, and the total downloads exceeded 140,000 till now! ICM is free for authors and readers currently.

 

Hierarchically ordered porous carbon with atomically dispersed cobalt for oxidative esterification of furfural

Wen Yao, Chenghong Hu, Yajie Zhang, Hao Li, Fengliang Wang, Kui Shen, Liyu Chen*, Yingwei Li*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 106-116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00045H

 

 

 

Multicomponent catalyst design for CO₂ /N₂ /NO_x electroreduction

Shunhan Jia, Limin Wu, Liang Xu, Xiaofu Sun*, Buxing Han*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 106-116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d2im00056c

 

 

 

 

Industrially applied and relevant transformations of 1,3-butadiene using homogeneous catalysts

Ji Yang, Peng Wang, Helfried Neumann, Ralf Jackstell, Matthias Beller*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 155-174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00009E

 

 

 

 

Core–shell nanostructured magnesium-based hydrogen storage materials: a critical review

Yinghui Li, Qiuyu Zhang, Li Ren, Zi Li, Xi Lin, Zhewen Ma, Haiyan Yang, Zhigang Hu, Jianxin Zou*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 282-298

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00061C

 

 

 

Poly(alkyl-biphenyl pyridinium) anion exchange membranes with a hydrophobic side chain for mono-/divalent anion separation

Hongxin Yang, Noor Ul Afsar, Qian Chen, Xiaolin Ge, Xingya Li, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 129-139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00043A

 

 

 

Electrochemical CO₂ reduction with ionic liquids: review and evaluation

Yangshuo Li, Fangfang Li, Aatto Laaksonen, Chuan Wang, Paul Cobden, Per Boden, Yanrong Liu, Xiangping Zhang, Xiaoyan Ji*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 410-430

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00055E

 

 

 

Recent progress and challenges in silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, M. Khalid Hossain, Waheed Ur Rehman, Rana Zafar Abbas Manj, Li Wang*, Jianping Yang*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2024, Advance Article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00115F

 

 

 

Acetalization strategy in biomass valorization: a review

Jian He, Qian Qiang, Li Bai, Wentao Su, Huazhong Yu, Shima Liu, Changzhi Li*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2024, 2, 30-56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00050H

 

 

 

 

Ammonia as a carbon-free hydrogen carrier for fuel cells: a perspective

Lingling Zhai, Shizhen Liu, Zhonghua Xiang*

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 332-342

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00036B

 

 

 

 

Perspective on oligomeric products from lignin depolymerization: their generation, identification, and further valorization

Yinglei Han, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh

Citation: Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 207-223

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00059H

 

 

 

 

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Hierarchically ordered porous carbon with atomically dispersed cobalt for oxidative esterification of furfural

Wen Yao, Chenghong Hu, Yajie Zhang, Hao Li, Fengliang Wang, Kui Shen, Liyu Chen* and Yingwei Li*

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00045H

Article Highlights:

1. Co-SA/3DOM-NC catalysts with a three-dimensional ordered macropore structure and highly dispersed CoN₄sites are successfully fabricated, showing high mass transfer efficiency and high accessibility of active sites.
2. This work represents the first example of macro-microporous MOF-derived single-atom catalysts (SACs) for biomass upgrading.
3. Co-SA/3DOM-NC shows high activity in the oxidative esterification of furfural, significantly superior to the microporous and the Co-nanoparticle counterparts.

 

Author Insights：

Professor Yingwei Li is the Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at South China University of Technology and Executive Deputy Director at the State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering. He earned his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2003, respectively, then engaged in postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary (Canada) and the University of Michigan (USA) from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, he was recruited under the “Hundred Talents Program” to South China University of Technology. His research interests include metal-organic framework materials, catalytic chemistry, biomass resource utilization chemistry.

Professor Liyu Chen is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT). He completed his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at SCUT in 2017. He served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the AIST-Kyoto University Joint Laboratory in Japan from 2017 to 2020. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials, coupled with exploring electrocatalytic applications such as carbon dioxide conversion and water splitting.

We are pleased to share the 2023 Industrial Chemistry & Materials HOT articles selected by our reviewers and associate editors based on the academic quality and impact of the articles. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured!

 

You can explore our 2023 HOT Article Collection here!

 

Launched in Feb. 2023, Industrial Chemistry & Materials (ICM) has been indexed in Chemical Abstracts (CA) and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) databases! 68 articles have been online published, and the total downloads exceeded 120,000 till now! ICM is free for authors and readers.

 

 

Browse our 2023 HOT articles below:

 

Hierarchically ordered porous carbon with atomically dispersed cobalt for oxidative esterification of furfural

Wen Yao, Chenghong Hu, Yajie Zhang, Hao Li, Fengliang Wang, Kui Shen, Liyu Chen and Yingwei Li

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 106-116. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00045H

 

Poly(alkyl-biphenyl pyridinium) anion exchange membranes with a hydrophobic side chain for mono-/divalent anion separation

Hongxin Yang, Noor Ul Afsar, Qian Chen, Xiaolin Ge, Xingya Li, Liang Ge and Tongwen Xu

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00043A

  

Recent progress in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for electrocatalysis

Cha Li, Hao Zhang, Ming Liu, Fei-Fan Lang, Jiandong Pang and Xian-He Bu

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 9-38. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00063F

 

Recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptors for high performance organic solar cells

Huanhuan Gao, Chenyang Han, Xiangjian Wan and Yongsheng Chen

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00037G

 

Ionic liquid/poly(ionic liquid)-based electrolytes for lithium batteries

Xinyu Ma, Jiangtao Yu, Yin Hu, John Texter and Feng Yan

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00051B

 

Ionic skin: from imitating natural skin to beyond

Zhiwu Chen and Yapei Wang

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 224-239. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00062H

 

Lithium-mediated electrochemical dinitrogen reduction reaction

Muhammad Saqlain Iqbal, Yukun Ruan, Ramsha Iftikhar, Faiza Zahid Khan, Weixiang Li, Leiduan Hao, Alex W. Robertson, Gianluca Percoco and Zhenyu Sun

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3IM00006K

 

Catalytic conversion network for lignocellulosic biomass valorization: A panoramic view

Shenyu Wang, Aohua Cheng, Fanhua Liu, Junjie Zhang, Tao Xia, Xiang Zeng, Wei Fan and Ying Zhang

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 188-206. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00054G

 

Hierarchically microporous membranes for highly energy-efficient gas separations

Shuangjiang Luo, Tianliang Han, Can Wang, Ying Sun, Hongjun Zhang, Ruilan Guo and Suojiang Zhang

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 376-387. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00049K

 

Electrochemical CO₂ reduction with ionic liquids: Review and evaluation

Yangshuo Li, Fangfang Li, Aatto Laaksonen, Chuan Wang, Paul Cobden, Per Boden, Yanrong Liu, Xiangping Zhang and Xiaoyan Ji

Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2IM00055E