• Enhancing polyol/sugar cascade oxidation to formic acid with defect rich MnO2 catalysts 

      Yan, Hao; Liu, Bowen; Zhou, Xin; Meng, Fanyu; Zhao, Mingyue; Pan, Yue; Li, Jie; Wu, Yining; Zhao, Hui; Liu, Yibin; Chen, Xiaobo; Li, Lina; Feng, Xiang; Chen, de; Shan, Honghong; Yang, Chaohe; Yan, Ning (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Oxidation of renewable polyol/sugar into formic acid using molecular O2 over heterogeneous catalysts is still challenging due to the insufficient activation of both O2 and organic substrates on coordination-saturated metal ...