On March 26, our review manuscript was accepted by Small. It is a team work of Dr. Run-Ping Ye and Xinyao Wang (co-first authors) under the leading from Prof. Jian Liu, with the collaboration of Prof. Qihua Yang and Prof. Mietek Jaroniec. This review summarized our group progress in the area of yolk/core-shell structured nanoreactors (YCSNs) for thermal hydrogenations. The review on the advances of YCSNs might inspire the creation of new materials with desired structures for achieving maximal hydrogenation performances.
In the current review, the progress in the general synthetic methods for YCSNs was firstly overviewed. Then the unique properties of YCSNs in terms of improved catalytic activity, selectivity and stability was presented. Subsequently, the state-of-the art in the area of YCSNs was discussed to explain how the YCSNs structures can improve the catalytic activity, selectivity and stability for specific hydrogenation reactions, such as hydrogenation of biomass, aromatics and small energy-relatedmolecules. Finally, an outlook of future developments in the area of YCSNs for hydrogenation reactions is presented.
In addition, a perspectives on the active sites and catalyst design for the hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate was prepared by R.P. Ye, J. Liu, M. Fan*, Y.G. Yao* et al. and published in ACS Catalysis (2020, in press).
