Dr Emma Gibson
- Senior Lecturer (School of Chemistry)
telephone:
01413305952
email:
Emma.Gibson@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7839-3786Research interests
Applying synchrotron techniques and vibrational spectroscopy to study heterogeneous catalysts during reaction. I also have an interest in developing combined techniques, i.e. performing XAFS and DRIFTS studies simultaneously to study solid-gas phase reactions. To extend this to investigate 3-phase catalytic reactions, we are commissioning an attenuated total reflection (ATR-FTIR) set up here in Glasgow with an aim to develop a version compatible for X-ray techniques.
Research groups
Publications
2024
Gibson, E.K. , Hargreaves, J. J. and Lennon, D. (2024) Preface. Catalysis Today, 442, 114948. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114948)
Decarolis, D. et al. (2024) Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3. Nature Catalysis, 7(7), pp. 829-837. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-024-01181-w)
Mohammed, K. et al. (2024) Structural selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles: selective ethanol ammoxidation to acetonitrile. EES Catalysis, 2(4), pp. 987-996. (doi: 10.1039/d4ey00044g)
2023
McCullagh, A. M., Gibson, E. K. , Parker, S. F., Refson, K. and Lennon, D. (2023) The adsorption of nitrobenzene over an alumina-supported palladium catalyst: an infrared spectroscopic study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(38), pp. 25993-26005. (doi: 10.1039/D3CP03028H) (PMID:37729436)
Nyathi, T. M., Fadlalla, M. I., Fischer, N., York, A. P. E., Olivier, E. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Claeys, M. (2023) Co3O4/TiO2 catalysts studied in situ during the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide: the effect of different TiO2 polymorphs. Catalysis Science and Technology, 13(7), pp. 2038-2052. (doi: 10.1039/D2CY01699K)
Kordatos, A., Mohammed, K., Vakili, R., Goguet, A., Manyar, H., Gibson, E. , Carravetta, M., Wells, P. and Skylaris, C. - K. (2023) Atomistic simulations on the carbidisation processes in Pd nanoparticles. RSC Advances, 13(9), pp. 5619-5626. (doi: 10.1039/D2RA07462A) (PMID:36798744) (PMCID:PMC9926891)
2022
Zhang, M. et al. (2022) Designed TiS2 nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic reductive amination of biomass-derived furfurals. Green Chemistry, 24(24), pp. 9570-9578. (doi: 10.1039/D2GC03234A)
Skukauskas, V., Silverwood, I. P. and Gibson, E. K. (2022) Dynamics of water within Cu-loaded zeolites: a quasielastic neutron scattering study. Catalysis Communications, 165, 106429. (doi: 10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106429)
2021
Tierney, G. F. et al. (2021) Controlling the production of acid catalyzed products of furfural hydrogenation by Pd/TiO2. ChemCatChem, 13(24), pp. 5121-5133. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.202101036)
Nyathi, T. M., Fadlalla, M. I., Fischer, N., York, A. P.E., Olivier, E. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Claeys, M. (2021) Support and gas environment effects on the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide over Co3O4 catalysts studied in situ. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 297, 120450. (doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120450)
Panchal, M. et al. (2021) Operando XAFS investigation on the effect of ash deposition on three-way catalyst used in Gasoline Particulate Filters and the effect of the manufacturing process on the catalytic activity. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33(28), 284001. (doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/abfe16) (PMID:33949972)
Decarolis, D., Clark, A. H., Pellegrinelli, T., Nachtegaal, M., Lynch, E. W., Catlow, C. R. A., Gibson, E. K. , Goguet, A. and Wells, P. P. (2021) Spatial profiling of a Pd/Al2O3 catalyst during selective ammonia oxidation. ACS Catalysis, 11(4), pp. 2141-2149. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05356) (PMID:33643682) (PMCID:PMC7901671)
Kang, L. et al. (2021) Design, identification, and evolution of a surface ruthenium(II/III) single site for CO activation. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 60(3), pp. 1212-1219. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202008370) (PMID:32978789) (PMCID:PMC7839529)
2020
Venezia, B. et al. (2020) Silicon microfabricated reactor for operando XAS/DRIFTS studies of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Catalysis Science and Technology, 10(23), pp. 7842-7856. (doi: 10.1039/D0CY01608J)
Davidson, A. L., Gibson, E. K. , Cibin, G., van Rensburg, H., Parker, S. F., Webb, P. B. and Lennon, D. (2020) The application of inelastic neutron scattering to investigate iron-based Fischer-Tropsch to olefins catalysis. Journal of Catalysis, 392, pp. 197-208. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.09.025)
Matam, S. K. et al. (2020) Investigation of MoO x/Al 2 O 3 under cyclic operation for oxidative and non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Catalysts, 10(12), 1370. (doi: 10.3390/catal10121370)
Kang, L. et al. (2020) Adsorption and activation of molecular oxygen over atomic copper(I/II) site on ceria. Nature Communications, 11, 4008. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17852-8) (PMID:32782245) (PMCID:PMC7419315)
Malta, G. et al. (2020) In situ K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the ligand environment of single-site Au/C catalysts during acetylene hydrochlorination. Chemical Science, 11(27), pp. 7040-7052. (doi: 10.1039/d0sc02152k) (PMID:34122997) (PMCID:PMC8159275)
Boulho, C., Gibson, E. K. , McAllister, M. I., Moss, R. and Lennon, D. (2020) The application of attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy to investigate the liquid phase hydrogenation of benzaldehyde over an alumina-supported palladium catalyst. Topics in Catalysis, 63, pp. 386-393. (doi: 10.1007/s11244-020-01323-x)
Martin, C., Kastner, K., Cameron, J. M., Hampson, E., Alves Fernandes, J., Gibson, E. K. , Walsh, D. A., Sans, V. and Newton, G. N. (2020) Redox‐active hybrid polyoxometalate‐stabilised gold nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 59(34), pp. 14331-14335. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202005629) (PMID:32432351)
Xie, B. et al. (2020) Synergistic ultraviolet and visible light photo-activation enables intensified low-temperature methanol synthesis over copper/zinc oxide/alumina. Nature Communications, 11, 1615. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15445-z) (PMID:32235859) (PMCID:PMC7109065)
Wolf, M., Gibson, E. K. , Olivier, E. J., Neethling, J. H., Catlow, C. R. A., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2020) In-depth characterisation of metal-support compounds in spent Co/SiO2 Fischer-Tropsch model catalysts. Catalysis Today, 342, pp. 71-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.01.065)
2019
McGlynn, J. C. et al. (2019) The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 4916. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0) (PMID:31664018) (PMCID:PMC6820771)
Macino, M. et al. (2019) Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene. Nature Catalysis, 2(10), pp. 873-881. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3)
Wolf, M., Roberts, S. J., Marquart, W., Olivier, E. J., Luchters, N. T.J., Gibson, E. K. , Catlow, C. R. A., Neethling, J. H., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2019) Synthesis, characterisation and water-gas shift activity of nano-particulate mixed-metal (Al, Ti) cobalt oxides. Dalton Transactions, 48(36), pp. 13858-13868. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT01634A) (PMID:31483416)
Jiang, S., Cox, H. J., Papaioannou, E. I., Tang, C., Liu, H., Murdoch, B. J., Gibson, E. K. , Metcalfe, I. S., Evans, J. S. O. and Beaumont, S. K. (2019) Shape-persistent porous organic cage supported palladium nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalytic materials. Nanoscale, 11(31), pp. 14929-14936. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR04553H) (PMID:31361283)
Nyathi, T. M., Fischer, N., York, A. P. E., Morgan, D. J., Hutchings, G. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P., Catlow, C. R. A. and Claeys, M. (2019) Impact of nanoparticle–support interactions in Co3O4/Al2O3 catalysts for the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide. ACS Catalysis, 9(8), pp. 7166-7178. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00685) (PMID:32064146) (PMCID:PMC7011734)
Bartlett, S. A., Sackville, E. V., Gibson, E. K. , Celorrio, V., Wells, P. P., Nachtegaal, M., Sheehan, S. W. and Hintermair, U. (2019) Evidence for tetranuclear bis-μ-oxo cubane species in molecular iridium-based water oxidation catalysts from XAS analysis. Chemical Communications, 55(54), pp. 7832-7835. (doi: 10.1039/C9CC02088H) (PMID:31215550)
Wolf, M., Gibson, E. K. , Olivier, E. J., Neethling, J. H., Catlow, C. R. A., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2019) Water-induced formation of cobalt-support compounds under simulated high conversion Fischer–Tropsch environment. ACS Catalysis, 9(6), pp. 4902-4918. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00160)
Dann, E. K. et al. (2019) Structure selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles for catalytic NH3 oxidation resolved using combined operando spectroscopy. Nature Catalysis, 2(2), pp. 157-163. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0213-3)
Messinis, A. M. et al. (2019) The highly surprising behaviour of diphosphine ligands in iron-catalysed Negishi cross-coupling. Nature Catalysis, 2, pp. 123-133. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0197-z)
2018
Vakili, R., Gibson, E. K. , Chansai, S., Xu, S., Al-Janabi, N., Wells, P. P., Hardacre, C., Walton, A. and Fan, X. (2018) Understanding the CO oxidation on Pt nanoparticles supported on MOFs by operando XPS. ChemCatChem, 10(19), pp. 4238-4242. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.201801067)
Malta, G. et al. (2018) Deactivation of a single-site gold-on-carbon acetylene hydrochlorination catalyst: an x-ray absorption and inelastic neutron scattering study. ACS Catalysis, 8(9), pp. 8493-8505. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02232)
Stewart, C. et al. (2018) Unraveling the H2 promotional effect on the Palladium catalysed CO oxidation using a combination of temporally and spatially resolved investigations. ACS Catalysis, 8(9), pp. 8255-8262. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01509) (PMID:30221029) (PMCID:PMC6135604)
Gibson, E. K. , Callison, J., Winfield, J. M., Sutherland, A. , Carr, R. H., Eaglesham, A., Parker, S. F. and Lennon, D. (2018) Spectroscopic characterization of model compounds, reactants, and byproducts connected with an isocyanate production chain. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(22), pp. 7355-7362. (doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00853)
Genovese, C. et al. (2018) Operando spectroscopy study of the carbon dioxide electro-reduction by iron species on nitrogen-doped carbon. Nature Communications, 9, 935. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03138-7) (PMID:29507285) (PMCID:PMC5838105)
2017
Jarvis, A. G., Obrecht, L., Deuss, P. J., Laan, W., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Kamer, P. C.J. (2017) Enzyme activity by design: an artificial rhodium hydroformylase for linear aldehydes. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(44), pp. 13596-13600. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201705753) (PMID:28841767) (PMCID:PMC5659135)
Gibson, E. K. et al. (2017) Probing the role of a non-thermal plasma (NTP) in the hybrid NTP catalytic oxidation of methane. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(32), pp. 9351-9355. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201703550) (PMID:28623870)
Suwardiyanto, , Howe, R. F., Gibson, E. K. , Catlow, C. R. A., Hameed, A., McGregor, J., Collier, P., Parker, S. F. and Lennon, D. (2017) An assessment of hydrocarbon species in the methanol-to-hydrocarbon reaction over a ZSM-5 catalyst. Faraday Discussions, 197, pp. 447-471. (doi: 10.1039/c6fd00195e) (PMID:28194458)
Malta, G. et al. (2017) Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination. Science, 355(6332), pp. 1399-1403. (doi: 10.1126/science.aal3439) (PMID:28360324)
Gibson, E.K. , Crabb, E.M., Gianolio, D., Russell, A.E., Thompsett, D. and Wells, P.P. (2017) Understanding the role of promoters in catalysis: operando XAFS/DRIFTS study of CeOx/Pt/Al2O3 during CO oxidation. Catalysis, Structure and Reactivity, 3(1-2), pp. 5-12. (doi: 10.1080/2055074X.2017.1278890)
2016
Bahruji, H., Bowker, M., Hutchings, G., Dimitratos, N., Wells, P., Gibson, E. , Jones, W., Brookes, C., Morgan, D. and Lalev, G. (2016) Pd/ZnO catalysts for direct CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Journal of Catalysis, 343, pp. 133-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2016.03.017)
Potter, M. E., Aswegen, S. V., Gibson, E. K. , Silverwood, I. P. and Raja, R. (2016) Spectroscopic investigation into the design of solid–acid catalysts for the low temperature dehydration of ethanol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(26), pp. 17303-17310. (doi: 10.1039/C6CP01209D) (PMID:27264938)
Bowker, M., Gibson, E.K. , Silverwood, I.P. and Brookes, C. (2016) Methanol oxidation on Fe2O3catalysts and the effects of surface Mo. Faraday Discussions, 188, pp. 387-398. (doi: 10.1039/C5FD00225G) (PMID:27101412)
Keturakis, C. J., Zhu, M., Gibson, E. K. , Daturi, M., Tao, F., Frenkel, A. I. and Wachs, I. E. (2016) Dynamics of CrO3–Fe2O3 catalysts during the high-temperature water-gas shift reaction: molecular structures and reactivity. ACS Catalysis, 6(7), pp. 4786-4798. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.6b01281)
Yeo, B. R. et al. (2016) The surface of iron molybdate catalysts used for the selective oxidation of methanol. Surface Science, 648, pp. 163-169. (doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2015.11.010)
Mohammed, K. M. H., Chutia, A., Callison, J., Wells, P. P., Gibson, E. K. , Beale, A. M., Catlow, C. R. A. and Raja, R. (2016) Design and control of Lewis acid sites in Sn-substituted microporous architectures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(15), pp. 5706-5712. (doi: 10.1039/C5TA10283A)
Brookes, C., Bowker, M., Gibson, E. K. , Gianolio, D., Mohammed, K. M. H., Parry, S., Rogers, S. M., Silverwood, I. P. and Wells, P. P. (2016) In situ spectroscopic investigations of MoOx/Fe2O3 catalysts for the selective oxidation of methanol. Catalysis Science and Technology, 6(3), pp. 722-730. (doi: 10.1039/C5CY01175B)
Chapman, S., Brookes, C., Bowker, M., Gibson, E. K. and Wells, P. P. (2016) Design and stabilisation of a high area iron molybdate surface for the selective oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde. Faraday Discussions, 188, pp. 115-129. (doi: 10.1039/C5FD00153F) (PMID:27067956)
Gibson, E. K. , Silverwood, I. P., Wells, P. P. and Parker, S. F. (2016) In situ and operando measurement of catalysts at synchrotron X-ray and neutron sources. In: Hutchings, G. (ed.) Modern Developments in Catalysis. World Scientific Publishing: New Jersey, pp. 41-88. ISBN 9781786341211 (doi: 10.1142/9781786341228_0002)
2015
Hammond, C., Padovan, D., Al-Nayili, A., Wells, P. P., Gibson, E. K. and Dimitratos, N. (2015) Identification of active and spectator Sn sites in Sn-β following solid-state stannation, and consequences for Lewis acid catalysis. ChemCatChem, 7(20), pp. 3322-3331. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.201500545) (PMID:26583051) (PMCID:PMC4641460)
Iqbal, S. et al. (2015) Ruthenium Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon: An Active Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid to 1,2-Propanediol. ACS Catalysis, 5(9), pp. 5047-5059. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00625)
Rogers, S. M. et al. (2015) Tailoring gold nanoparticle characteristics and the impact on aqueous-phase oxidation of glycerol. ACS Catalysis, 5(7), pp. 4377-4384. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00754)
Brown, N. J. et al. (2015) From organometallic zinc and copper complexes to highly active colloidal catalysts for the conversion of CO2 to methanol. ACS Catalysis, 5(5), pp. 2895-2902. (doi: 10.1021/cs502038y)
Gibson, E. K. et al. (2015) Restructuring of AuPd nanoparticles studied by a combined XAFS/DRIFTS approach. Chemistry of Materials, 27(10), pp. 3714-3720. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00866)
Buffet, J.-C., Wanna, N., Arnold, T. A. Q., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P., Wang, Q., Tantirungrotechai, J. and O’Hare, D. (2015) Highly tunable catalyst supports for single-site sthylene polymerization. Chemistry of Materials, 27(5), pp. 1495-1501. (doi: 10.1021/cm503433q)
Bowker, M., House, M., Alshehri, A., Brookes, C., Gibson, E. K. and Wells, P. P. (2015) Selectivity determinants for dual function catalysts: applied to methanol selective oxidation on iron molybdate. Catalysis, Structure and Reactivity, 1(2), pp. 95-100. (doi: 10.1179/2055075815Y.0000000002)
2014
Brookes, C. et al. (2014) The nature of the molybdenum surface in iron molybdate. The active phase in selective methanol oxidation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(45), pp. 26155-26161. (doi: 10.1021/jp5081753)
Beale, A. M., Jacques, S. D.M., Gibson, E. K. and Di Michiel, M. (2014) Progress towards five dimensional diffraction imaging of functional materials under process conditions. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 277-8, pp. 208-223. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.05.008)
Beale, A. M. et al. (2014) Chemical imaging of the sulfur-induced deactivation of Cu/ZnO catalyst bodies. Journal of Catalysis, 314, pp. 94-100. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2014.04.007)
Gibson, E. K. , Winfield, J. M., Adam, D., Miller, A. A. , Carr, R. H., Eaglesham, A. and Lennon, D. (2014) The solvation and dissociation of 4-benzylaniline hydrochloride in chlorobenzene. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 53(11), pp. 4156-4164. (doi: 10.1021/ie403745s)
2013
Van de Voorde, B. et al. (2013) N/S-heterocyclic contaminant removal from fuels by the mesoporous metal–organic framework MIL-100: the role of the metal ion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(26), pp. 9849-9856. (doi: 10.1021/ja403571z) (PMID:23646935)
Gibson, E. K. , Zandbergen, M. W., Jacques, S. D. M., Biao, C., Cernik, R. J., O’Brien, M. G., Di Michiel, M., Weckhuysen, B. M. and Beale, A. M. (2013) Noninvasive spatiotemporal profiling of the processes of impregnation and drying within Mo/Al2O3 catalyst bodies by a combination of X-ray absorption tomography and diagonal offset raman spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis, 3(3), pp. 339-347. (doi: 10.1021/cs300746a)
2012
Dhakshinamoorthy, A., Alvaro, M., Horcajada, P., Gibson, E. , Vishnuvarthan, M., Vimont, A., Grenèche, J.-M., Serre, C., Daturi, M. and Garcia, H. (2012) Comparison of porous iron trimesates basolite F300 and MIL-100(Fe) as heterogeneous catalysts for Lewis acid and oxidation reactions: roles of structural defects and stability. ACS Catalysis, 2(10), pp. 2060-2065. (doi: 10.1021/cs300345b)
Nouar, F. et al. (2012) Tuning the breathing behaviour of MIL-53 by cation mixing. Chemical Communications, 48(82), pp. 10237-10239. (doi: 10.1039/C2CC35348B) (PMID:22968060)
2010
Goscianska, J., Ziolek, M., Gibson, E. and Daturi, M. (2010) Meso–macroporous zirconia modified with niobia as support for platinum—Acidic and basic properties. Catalysis Today, 152(1-4), pp. 33-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2009.10.016)
Goscianska, J., Ziolek, M., Gibson, E. and Daturi, M. (2010) Novel mesoporous zirconia-based catalysts for WGS reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 97(1-2), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2010.03.023)
Gibson, E.K. , Winfield, J.M., Muir, K.W., Carr, R.H., Eaglesham, A., Gavezzotti, A. and Lennon, D. (2010) A structural and spectroscopic investigation of the hydrochlorination of 4,4-methylenedianiline. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12(15), pp. 3824-3833. (doi: 10.1039/b916368a)
2009
Gibson, E.K. , Winfield, J.M., Muir, K.W., Carr, R.H., Easglesham, A., Gavezzotti, A., Parker, S.F. and Lennon, D. (2009) A structural and spectroscopic investigation of the hydrochlorination of 4-benzylaniline: the interaction of anhydrous hydrogen chloride with chlorobenzene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11(2), pp. 288-297. (doi: 10.1039/b810027f)
2005
Lear, T., Marshall, R., Gibson, E.K. , Schutt, T., Klapotke, T.M., Rupprechter, G., Freund, H.J., Winfield, J.M. and Lennon, D. (2005) A model high surface area alumina-supported palladium catalyst. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 7, pp. 565-567. (doi: 10.1039/b418708c)
Articles
Gibson, E.K. , Hargreaves, J. J. and Lennon, D. (2024) Preface. Catalysis Today, 442, 114948. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114948)
Decarolis, D. et al. (2024) Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3. Nature Catalysis, 7(7), pp. 829-837. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-024-01181-w)
Mohammed, K. et al. (2024) Structural selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles: selective ethanol ammoxidation to acetonitrile. EES Catalysis, 2(4), pp. 987-996. (doi: 10.1039/d4ey00044g)
McCullagh, A. M., Gibson, E. K. , Parker, S. F., Refson, K. and Lennon, D. (2023) The adsorption of nitrobenzene over an alumina-supported palladium catalyst: an infrared spectroscopic study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(38), pp. 25993-26005. (doi: 10.1039/D3CP03028H) (PMID:37729436)
Nyathi, T. M., Fadlalla, M. I., Fischer, N., York, A. P. E., Olivier, E. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Claeys, M. (2023) Co3O4/TiO2 catalysts studied in situ during the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide: the effect of different TiO2 polymorphs. Catalysis Science and Technology, 13(7), pp. 2038-2052. (doi: 10.1039/D2CY01699K)
Kordatos, A., Mohammed, K., Vakili, R., Goguet, A., Manyar, H., Gibson, E. , Carravetta, M., Wells, P. and Skylaris, C. - K. (2023) Atomistic simulations on the carbidisation processes in Pd nanoparticles. RSC Advances, 13(9), pp. 5619-5626. (doi: 10.1039/D2RA07462A) (PMID:36798744) (PMCID:PMC9926891)
Zhang, M. et al. (2022) Designed TiS2 nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic reductive amination of biomass-derived furfurals. Green Chemistry, 24(24), pp. 9570-9578. (doi: 10.1039/D2GC03234A)
Skukauskas, V., Silverwood, I. P. and Gibson, E. K. (2022) Dynamics of water within Cu-loaded zeolites: a quasielastic neutron scattering study. Catalysis Communications, 165, 106429. (doi: 10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106429)
Tierney, G. F. et al. (2021) Controlling the production of acid catalyzed products of furfural hydrogenation by Pd/TiO2. ChemCatChem, 13(24), pp. 5121-5133. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.202101036)
Nyathi, T. M., Fadlalla, M. I., Fischer, N., York, A. P.E., Olivier, E. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Claeys, M. (2021) Support and gas environment effects on the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide over Co3O4 catalysts studied in situ. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 297, 120450. (doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120450)
Panchal, M. et al. (2021) Operando XAFS investigation on the effect of ash deposition on three-way catalyst used in Gasoline Particulate Filters and the effect of the manufacturing process on the catalytic activity. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33(28), 284001. (doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/abfe16) (PMID:33949972)
Decarolis, D., Clark, A. H., Pellegrinelli, T., Nachtegaal, M., Lynch, E. W., Catlow, C. R. A., Gibson, E. K. , Goguet, A. and Wells, P. P. (2021) Spatial profiling of a Pd/Al2O3 catalyst during selective ammonia oxidation. ACS Catalysis, 11(4), pp. 2141-2149. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05356) (PMID:33643682) (PMCID:PMC7901671)
Kang, L. et al. (2021) Design, identification, and evolution of a surface ruthenium(II/III) single site for CO activation. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 60(3), pp. 1212-1219. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202008370) (PMID:32978789) (PMCID:PMC7839529)
Venezia, B. et al. (2020) Silicon microfabricated reactor for operando XAS/DRIFTS studies of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Catalysis Science and Technology, 10(23), pp. 7842-7856. (doi: 10.1039/D0CY01608J)
Davidson, A. L., Gibson, E. K. , Cibin, G., van Rensburg, H., Parker, S. F., Webb, P. B. and Lennon, D. (2020) The application of inelastic neutron scattering to investigate iron-based Fischer-Tropsch to olefins catalysis. Journal of Catalysis, 392, pp. 197-208. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2020.09.025)
Matam, S. K. et al. (2020) Investigation of MoO x/Al 2 O 3 under cyclic operation for oxidative and non-oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Catalysts, 10(12), 1370. (doi: 10.3390/catal10121370)
Kang, L. et al. (2020) Adsorption and activation of molecular oxygen over atomic copper(I/II) site on ceria. Nature Communications, 11, 4008. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17852-8) (PMID:32782245) (PMCID:PMC7419315)
Malta, G. et al. (2020) In situ K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the ligand environment of single-site Au/C catalysts during acetylene hydrochlorination. Chemical Science, 11(27), pp. 7040-7052. (doi: 10.1039/d0sc02152k) (PMID:34122997) (PMCID:PMC8159275)
Boulho, C., Gibson, E. K. , McAllister, M. I., Moss, R. and Lennon, D. (2020) The application of attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy to investigate the liquid phase hydrogenation of benzaldehyde over an alumina-supported palladium catalyst. Topics in Catalysis, 63, pp. 386-393. (doi: 10.1007/s11244-020-01323-x)
Martin, C., Kastner, K., Cameron, J. M., Hampson, E., Alves Fernandes, J., Gibson, E. K. , Walsh, D. A., Sans, V. and Newton, G. N. (2020) Redox‐active hybrid polyoxometalate‐stabilised gold nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 59(34), pp. 14331-14335. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202005629) (PMID:32432351)
Xie, B. et al. (2020) Synergistic ultraviolet and visible light photo-activation enables intensified low-temperature methanol synthesis over copper/zinc oxide/alumina. Nature Communications, 11, 1615. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15445-z) (PMID:32235859) (PMCID:PMC7109065)
Wolf, M., Gibson, E. K. , Olivier, E. J., Neethling, J. H., Catlow, C. R. A., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2020) In-depth characterisation of metal-support compounds in spent Co/SiO2 Fischer-Tropsch model catalysts. Catalysis Today, 342, pp. 71-78. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.01.065)
McGlynn, J. C. et al. (2019) The rapid electrochemical activation of MoTe2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 10, 4916. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12831-0) (PMID:31664018) (PMCID:PMC6820771)
Macino, M. et al. (2019) Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene. Nature Catalysis, 2(10), pp. 873-881. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-019-0334-3)
Wolf, M., Roberts, S. J., Marquart, W., Olivier, E. J., Luchters, N. T.J., Gibson, E. K. , Catlow, C. R. A., Neethling, J. H., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2019) Synthesis, characterisation and water-gas shift activity of nano-particulate mixed-metal (Al, Ti) cobalt oxides. Dalton Transactions, 48(36), pp. 13858-13868. (doi: 10.1039/C9DT01634A) (PMID:31483416)
Jiang, S., Cox, H. J., Papaioannou, E. I., Tang, C., Liu, H., Murdoch, B. J., Gibson, E. K. , Metcalfe, I. S., Evans, J. S. O. and Beaumont, S. K. (2019) Shape-persistent porous organic cage supported palladium nanoparticles as heterogeneous catalytic materials. Nanoscale, 11(31), pp. 14929-14936. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR04553H) (PMID:31361283)
Nyathi, T. M., Fischer, N., York, A. P. E., Morgan, D. J., Hutchings, G. J., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P., Catlow, C. R. A. and Claeys, M. (2019) Impact of nanoparticle–support interactions in Co3O4/Al2O3 catalysts for the preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide. ACS Catalysis, 9(8), pp. 7166-7178. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00685) (PMID:32064146) (PMCID:PMC7011734)
Bartlett, S. A., Sackville, E. V., Gibson, E. K. , Celorrio, V., Wells, P. P., Nachtegaal, M., Sheehan, S. W. and Hintermair, U. (2019) Evidence for tetranuclear bis-μ-oxo cubane species in molecular iridium-based water oxidation catalysts from XAS analysis. Chemical Communications, 55(54), pp. 7832-7835. (doi: 10.1039/C9CC02088H) (PMID:31215550)
Wolf, M., Gibson, E. K. , Olivier, E. J., Neethling, J. H., Catlow, C. R. A., Fischer, N. and Claeys, M. (2019) Water-induced formation of cobalt-support compounds under simulated high conversion Fischer–Tropsch environment. ACS Catalysis, 9(6), pp. 4902-4918. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00160)
Dann, E. K. et al. (2019) Structure selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles for catalytic NH3 oxidation resolved using combined operando spectroscopy. Nature Catalysis, 2(2), pp. 157-163. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0213-3)
Messinis, A. M. et al. (2019) The highly surprising behaviour of diphosphine ligands in iron-catalysed Negishi cross-coupling. Nature Catalysis, 2, pp. 123-133. (doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0197-z)
Vakili, R., Gibson, E. K. , Chansai, S., Xu, S., Al-Janabi, N., Wells, P. P., Hardacre, C., Walton, A. and Fan, X. (2018) Understanding the CO oxidation on Pt nanoparticles supported on MOFs by operando XPS. ChemCatChem, 10(19), pp. 4238-4242. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.201801067)
Malta, G. et al. (2018) Deactivation of a single-site gold-on-carbon acetylene hydrochlorination catalyst: an x-ray absorption and inelastic neutron scattering study. ACS Catalysis, 8(9), pp. 8493-8505. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02232)
Stewart, C. et al. (2018) Unraveling the H2 promotional effect on the Palladium catalysed CO oxidation using a combination of temporally and spatially resolved investigations. ACS Catalysis, 8(9), pp. 8255-8262. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01509) (PMID:30221029) (PMCID:PMC6135604)
Gibson, E. K. , Callison, J., Winfield, J. M., Sutherland, A. , Carr, R. H., Eaglesham, A., Parker, S. F. and Lennon, D. (2018) Spectroscopic characterization of model compounds, reactants, and byproducts connected with an isocyanate production chain. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(22), pp. 7355-7362. (doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00853)
Genovese, C. et al. (2018) Operando spectroscopy study of the carbon dioxide electro-reduction by iron species on nitrogen-doped carbon. Nature Communications, 9, 935. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03138-7) (PMID:29507285) (PMCID:PMC5838105)
Jarvis, A. G., Obrecht, L., Deuss, P. J., Laan, W., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P. and Kamer, P. C.J. (2017) Enzyme activity by design: an artificial rhodium hydroformylase for linear aldehydes. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(44), pp. 13596-13600. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201705753) (PMID:28841767) (PMCID:PMC5659135)
Gibson, E. K. et al. (2017) Probing the role of a non-thermal plasma (NTP) in the hybrid NTP catalytic oxidation of methane. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(32), pp. 9351-9355. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201703550) (PMID:28623870)
Suwardiyanto, , Howe, R. F., Gibson, E. K. , Catlow, C. R. A., Hameed, A., McGregor, J., Collier, P., Parker, S. F. and Lennon, D. (2017) An assessment of hydrocarbon species in the methanol-to-hydrocarbon reaction over a ZSM-5 catalyst. Faraday Discussions, 197, pp. 447-471. (doi: 10.1039/c6fd00195e) (PMID:28194458)
Malta, G. et al. (2017) Identification of single-site gold catalysis in acetylene hydrochlorination. Science, 355(6332), pp. 1399-1403. (doi: 10.1126/science.aal3439) (PMID:28360324)
Gibson, E.K. , Crabb, E.M., Gianolio, D., Russell, A.E., Thompsett, D. and Wells, P.P. (2017) Understanding the role of promoters in catalysis: operando XAFS/DRIFTS study of CeOx/Pt/Al2O3 during CO oxidation. Catalysis, Structure and Reactivity, 3(1-2), pp. 5-12. (doi: 10.1080/2055074X.2017.1278890)
Bahruji, H., Bowker, M., Hutchings, G., Dimitratos, N., Wells, P., Gibson, E. , Jones, W., Brookes, C., Morgan, D. and Lalev, G. (2016) Pd/ZnO catalysts for direct CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Journal of Catalysis, 343, pp. 133-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2016.03.017)
Potter, M. E., Aswegen, S. V., Gibson, E. K. , Silverwood, I. P. and Raja, R. (2016) Spectroscopic investigation into the design of solid–acid catalysts for the low temperature dehydration of ethanol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(26), pp. 17303-17310. (doi: 10.1039/C6CP01209D) (PMID:27264938)
Bowker, M., Gibson, E.K. , Silverwood, I.P. and Brookes, C. (2016) Methanol oxidation on Fe2O3catalysts and the effects of surface Mo. Faraday Discussions, 188, pp. 387-398. (doi: 10.1039/C5FD00225G) (PMID:27101412)
Keturakis, C. J., Zhu, M., Gibson, E. K. , Daturi, M., Tao, F., Frenkel, A. I. and Wachs, I. E. (2016) Dynamics of CrO3–Fe2O3 catalysts during the high-temperature water-gas shift reaction: molecular structures and reactivity. ACS Catalysis, 6(7), pp. 4786-4798. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.6b01281)
Yeo, B. R. et al. (2016) The surface of iron molybdate catalysts used for the selective oxidation of methanol. Surface Science, 648, pp. 163-169. (doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2015.11.010)
Mohammed, K. M. H., Chutia, A., Callison, J., Wells, P. P., Gibson, E. K. , Beale, A. M., Catlow, C. R. A. and Raja, R. (2016) Design and control of Lewis acid sites in Sn-substituted microporous architectures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(15), pp. 5706-5712. (doi: 10.1039/C5TA10283A)
Brookes, C., Bowker, M., Gibson, E. K. , Gianolio, D., Mohammed, K. M. H., Parry, S., Rogers, S. M., Silverwood, I. P. and Wells, P. P. (2016) In situ spectroscopic investigations of MoOx/Fe2O3 catalysts for the selective oxidation of methanol. Catalysis Science and Technology, 6(3), pp. 722-730. (doi: 10.1039/C5CY01175B)
Chapman, S., Brookes, C., Bowker, M., Gibson, E. K. and Wells, P. P. (2016) Design and stabilisation of a high area iron molybdate surface for the selective oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde. Faraday Discussions, 188, pp. 115-129. (doi: 10.1039/C5FD00153F) (PMID:27067956)
Hammond, C., Padovan, D., Al-Nayili, A., Wells, P. P., Gibson, E. K. and Dimitratos, N. (2015) Identification of active and spectator Sn sites in Sn-β following solid-state stannation, and consequences for Lewis acid catalysis. ChemCatChem, 7(20), pp. 3322-3331. (doi: 10.1002/cctc.201500545) (PMID:26583051) (PMCID:PMC4641460)
Iqbal, S. et al. (2015) Ruthenium Nanoparticles Supported on Carbon: An Active Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid to 1,2-Propanediol. ACS Catalysis, 5(9), pp. 5047-5059. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00625)
Rogers, S. M. et al. (2015) Tailoring gold nanoparticle characteristics and the impact on aqueous-phase oxidation of glycerol. ACS Catalysis, 5(7), pp. 4377-4384. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00754)
Brown, N. J. et al. (2015) From organometallic zinc and copper complexes to highly active colloidal catalysts for the conversion of CO2 to methanol. ACS Catalysis, 5(5), pp. 2895-2902. (doi: 10.1021/cs502038y)
Gibson, E. K. et al. (2015) Restructuring of AuPd nanoparticles studied by a combined XAFS/DRIFTS approach. Chemistry of Materials, 27(10), pp. 3714-3720. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00866)
Buffet, J.-C., Wanna, N., Arnold, T. A. Q., Gibson, E. K. , Wells, P. P., Wang, Q., Tantirungrotechai, J. and O’Hare, D. (2015) Highly tunable catalyst supports for single-site sthylene polymerization. Chemistry of Materials, 27(5), pp. 1495-1501. (doi: 10.1021/cm503433q)
Bowker, M., House, M., Alshehri, A., Brookes, C., Gibson, E. K. and Wells, P. P. (2015) Selectivity determinants for dual function catalysts: applied to methanol selective oxidation on iron molybdate. Catalysis, Structure and Reactivity, 1(2), pp. 95-100. (doi: 10.1179/2055075815Y.0000000002)
Brookes, C. et al. (2014) The nature of the molybdenum surface in iron molybdate. The active phase in selective methanol oxidation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(45), pp. 26155-26161. (doi: 10.1021/jp5081753)
Beale, A. M., Jacques, S. D.M., Gibson, E. K. and Di Michiel, M. (2014) Progress towards five dimensional diffraction imaging of functional materials under process conditions. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 277-8, pp. 208-223. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.05.008)
Beale, A. M. et al. (2014) Chemical imaging of the sulfur-induced deactivation of Cu/ZnO catalyst bodies. Journal of Catalysis, 314, pp. 94-100. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2014.04.007)
Gibson, E. K. , Winfield, J. M., Adam, D., Miller, A. A. , Carr, R. H., Eaglesham, A. and Lennon, D. (2014) The solvation and dissociation of 4-benzylaniline hydrochloride in chlorobenzene. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 53(11), pp. 4156-4164. (doi: 10.1021/ie403745s)
Van de Voorde, B. et al. (2013) N/S-heterocyclic contaminant removal from fuels by the mesoporous metal–organic framework MIL-100: the role of the metal ion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(26), pp. 9849-9856. (doi: 10.1021/ja403571z) (PMID:23646935)
Gibson, E. K. , Zandbergen, M. W., Jacques, S. D. M., Biao, C., Cernik, R. J., O’Brien, M. G., Di Michiel, M., Weckhuysen, B. M. and Beale, A. M. (2013) Noninvasive spatiotemporal profiling of the processes of impregnation and drying within Mo/Al2O3 catalyst bodies by a combination of X-ray absorption tomography and diagonal offset raman spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis, 3(3), pp. 339-347. (doi: 10.1021/cs300746a)
Dhakshinamoorthy, A., Alvaro, M., Horcajada, P., Gibson, E. , Vishnuvarthan, M., Vimont, A., Grenèche, J.-M., Serre, C., Daturi, M. and Garcia, H. (2012) Comparison of porous iron trimesates basolite F300 and MIL-100(Fe) as heterogeneous catalysts for Lewis acid and oxidation reactions: roles of structural defects and stability. ACS Catalysis, 2(10), pp. 2060-2065. (doi: 10.1021/cs300345b)
Nouar, F. et al. (2012) Tuning the breathing behaviour of MIL-53 by cation mixing. Chemical Communications, 48(82), pp. 10237-10239. (doi: 10.1039/C2CC35348B) (PMID:22968060)
Goscianska, J., Ziolek, M., Gibson, E. and Daturi, M. (2010) Meso–macroporous zirconia modified with niobia as support for platinum—Acidic and basic properties. Catalysis Today, 152(1-4), pp. 33-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2009.10.016)
Goscianska, J., Ziolek, M., Gibson, E. and Daturi, M. (2010) Novel mesoporous zirconia-based catalysts for WGS reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 97(1-2), pp. 49-56. (doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2010.03.023)
Gibson, E.K. , Winfield, J.M., Muir, K.W., Carr, R.H., Eaglesham, A., Gavezzotti, A. and Lennon, D. (2010) A structural and spectroscopic investigation of the hydrochlorination of 4,4-methylenedianiline. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12(15), pp. 3824-3833. (doi: 10.1039/b916368a)
Gibson, E.K. , Winfield, J.M., Muir, K.W., Carr, R.H., Easglesham, A., Gavezzotti, A., Parker, S.F. and Lennon, D. (2009) A structural and spectroscopic investigation of the hydrochlorination of 4-benzylaniline: the interaction of anhydrous hydrogen chloride with chlorobenzene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11(2), pp. 288-297. (doi: 10.1039/b810027f)
Lear, T., Marshall, R., Gibson, E.K. , Schutt, T., Klapotke, T.M., Rupprechter, G., Freund, H.J., Winfield, J.M. and Lennon, D. (2005) A model high surface area alumina-supported palladium catalyst. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 7, pp. 565-567. (doi: 10.1039/b418708c)
Book Sections
Gibson, E. K. , Silverwood, I. P., Wells, P. P. and Parker, S. F. (2016) In situ and operando measurement of catalysts at synchrotron X-ray and neutron sources. In: Hutchings, G. (ed.) Modern Developments in Catalysis. World Scientific Publishing: New Jersey, pp. 41-88. ISBN 9781786341211 (doi: 10.1142/9781786341228_0002)
Research datasets
2021
Panchal, M., Callison, J., Skukauskas, V., Gianolio, D., Cibin, G., York, A., Schuster, M., Hyde, T., Collier, P., Catlow, C. and Gibson, E. (2021) Operando XAFS investigation on the effect of ash deposition on three-way catalyst used in Gasoline Particulate Filters and the effect of the manufacturing process on the catalytic activity. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)
2020
Matam, S. K., Moffat, C., Hellier, P., Bowker, M., Silverwood, I. P., Catlow, C. R. A., Jackson, D. , Craswell, J., Wells, P. P., Parker, S. F. and Gibson, E. (2020) Investigation of MoOx/Al2O3 under Cyclic Operation for Oxidative and Non-Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. [Data Collection]
2018
Stewart, C., Gibson, E. , Morgan, K., Cibin, G., Dent, A. J., Hardacre, C., Kondratenko, E. V., Kondratenko, V. A., McManus, C., Rogers, S., Stere, C. E., Chansai, S., Wang, Y.-C., Haigh, S. J., Wells, P. P. and Goguet, A. (2018) Unraveling the H2 Promotional Effect on Palladium-Catalyzed CO Oxidation Using a Combination of Temporally and Spatially Resolved Investigations. [Data Collection]
