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Green Energy & Environment 第五卷第四期“Green Catalysis and Kinetics”专刊已正式出版，本期客座编辑：华东理工大学段学志教授和江浩教授、挪威科技大学杨佳教授。

本期共收录文章16篇，其中editorial，research highlight，short review和review article各一篇，research papers12篇，涉及金属Li和二甲苯催化剂的制备，沸石分子筛的绿色合成，电催化析氢，二维分子筛制备生物柴油以及丙烯气相环氧化催化剂制备等内容。好文多多，敬请阅读~

*封面封底文章分别来自吉林大学于吉红院士团队和华东理工大学段学志教授团队。

This article reviews the strategies that applied to the preparation of high-performance zeolite catalysts for toluene alkylation with methanol to para-xylene, with special focus on the precise control of pore dimension and acid sites distribution in zeolite to achieve the highest selectivity to para-xylene from a scientific perspective.

Economical and environmentally benign approaches to crystalline nanosized molecular sieves are presented. The advantages and challenges of the green synthesis of nano zeolites are addressed with particular attention to their potential applications.

Two-dimensional basic Na/zeolites have been used as efficient catalysts in the transesterification of triglycerides to produce biodiesel, which show remarkably enhanced activity compared to three-dimensional and other reported basic zeolites.

Boron carbide (BC) was used as a green and stable promoter to effectively boost the reaction of Fe(III)/H₂O₂ for degradation of diverse organic pollutants.

Ni-Fe hydrotalcite was successfully in-situ grown on the washcoated cordierite monolith via urea hydrolysis. The hydrotalcite-derived catalysts performed high methane yield in CO₂ methanation under high gas velocity condition, appeared as promising catalysts for industrial methanation reactor.

The identification of intrinsic electronic sensitivity for propene epoxidation with H₂ and O₂ is achieved and the enhanced dynamic electron transfer of Au⁰ species by increasing the Au⁰ content boost the reaction performance of green propene epoxidation.

This work reported a new kinetics method to discriminate the active sites of metal-free carbocatalysts. The graphitic N-containing C sites were identified as the active sites of N-doped CNT for persulfate activation. Graphitic N with rich electrons would endow the surrounding C sites the ability to attract the HSO₅^- ion and then activate the persulfate through a nonradical pathway to efficiently degrade phenol.

A new two-photon fluorescence probe was used in nanocarbon catalyzed oxidative coupling of benzylamine for capturing the reaction intermediate and reveling the kinetics and mechanism of the reaction via the enhancement of fluorescence intensity.

Improved photocatalytic H₂ generation achieved by using tap water under simulated solar light using C-doped CdS@G samples.

The S-1/TS-1@dendritic-SiO₂ material with three-layer core–shell structure was developed and used as the support for Au catalysts, which showed simultaneously fantastic PO formation rate, PO selectivity and stability for propene epoxidation with H₂ and O₂.

An interesting family of nitrogen-rich isoindoline-base POPs was synthesized. The IPPs showed excellent catalytic activity, well recyclability and scalable ability for Knoevenagel condensation reaction under mild reaction conditions.

The Co₉S₈ nanoarrays with high surface electron deficiency exhibit a low reaction activated energy and enhanced intermediate adsorption as OER electrocatalysts, thus surpassing the commercial benchmarks and most of the reported Co₉S₈-based materials in alkaline media.

A facile one-step hydrothermal method is reported for the synthesis of high-performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst, cobalt doped Mn₃O₄ nanocrystals supported on graphene nanosheets (Co–Mn₃O₄/G). Compare to pristine Mn₃O₄, this Co–Mn₃O₄/G exhibits a greatly enhanced electrocatalytic activity, delivering a half-wave potential of 0.866 V for ORR and a low overpotential of 275 mV at 10 mA cm⁻² for OER.

Co–Mo phosphide nanosheets with the adjustable ratio of Co and Mo were fabricated on carbon cloth. Excellent electrocatalytic performances are obtained such as an overpotential of only 67.3 mV at 10 mA cm⁻² and a Tafel slope of 69.9 mV dec⁻¹. Rapid recovery of the current response under multistep chronoamperometry is realized and with excellent stability.

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