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Overview

Philippe Sautet is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their research intersects with subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions

Sautet's recent significant publications include:

  • "A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction" (2020, Nature Catalysis)
  • "Establishing reaction networks in the 16-electron sulfur reduction reaction" (2024, Nature)
  • "Guidelines to Achieving High Selectivity for the Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Bimetallic and Dilute Alloy Catalysts: A Review" (2020, Chemical Reviews)
  • "Dual redox mediators accelerate the electrochemical kinetics of lithium-sulfur batteries" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Dilute Alloys Based on Au, Ag, or Cu for Efficient Catalysis: From Synthesis to Active Sites" (2022, Chemical Reviews)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sautet include C. M. Friend, R. J. Madix, C. R. O'Connor, Kaining Duanmu, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova.

The main venues where Sautet has published work include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • Use of DFT to achieve a rational understanding of acid–basic properties of γ-alumina surfaces

    M Digne;M Digne;P Sautet;P Raybaud;P Euzen

  • Finding optimal surface sites on heterogeneous catalysts by counting nearest neighbors

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Federico Calle-Vallejo;Jakub Tymoczko;Viktor Colic;Viktor Colic;Quang Huy Vu

  • Introducing structural sensitivity into adsorption–energy scaling relations by means of coordination numbers

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;David Loffreda;Marc T. M. Koper;Philippe Sautet

  • A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction

    Lele Peng;Ziyang Wei;Chengzhang Wan;Jing Li

  • Hydroxyl Groups on γ-Alumina Surfaces: A DFT Study

    M. Digne;M. Digne;M. Digne;P. Sautet;P. Sautet;P. Raybaud;P. Euzen

  • Competitive C=C and C=O adsorption of α-β unsaturated aldehydes on Pt and Pd surfaces in relation with the selectivity of hydrogenation reactions : a theoretical approach

    F. Delbecq;P. Sautet

  • Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis

    Mufan Li;Kaining Duanmu;Chengzhang Wan;Tao Cheng;Tao Cheng

  • Stability and Reactivity of ϵ−χ−θ Iron Carbide Catalyst Phases in Fischer−Tropsch Synthesis: Controlling μC

    Emiel de Smit;Fabrizio Cinquini;Andrew M. Beale;Olga V. Safonova

  • Fast Prediction of Adsorption Properties for Platinum Nanocatalysts with Generalized Coordination Numbers

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;José I. Martínez;Juan M. García-Lastra;Philippe Sautet

  • γ-Alumina: the essential and unexpected role of water for the structure, stability, and reactivity of "defect" sites.

    Raphael Wischert;Pierre Laurent;Christophe Copéret;Christophe Copéret;Françoise Delbecq

  • Structure and Stability of Aluminum Hydroxides: A Theoretical Study

    Mathieu Digne;Philippe Sautet;Pascal Raybaud;Hervé Toulhoat

  • Calculation of the benzene on rhodium STM images

    P. Sautet;C. Joachim

  • Molecular adsorption at Pt(111). How accurate are DFT functionals

    Sarah Gautier;Stephan N. Steinmann;Carine Michel;Paul Fleurat-Lessard

  • Significance of single-electron energies for the description of CO on Pt(111)

    G. Kresse;A. Gil;P. Sautet

  • Semiconductors Used in Photovoltaic and Photocatalytic Devices: Assessing Fundamental Properties from DFT

    Tangui Le Bahers;Michel Rérat;Philippe Sautet

  • How to Control the Selectivity of Palladium‐based Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions: The Role of Subsurface Chemistry

    Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;Fabrizio Cinquini;Karin Föttinger

  • Understanding Palladium Hydrogenation Catalysts: When the Nature of the Reactive Molecule Controls the Nature of the Catalyst Active Phase

    Detre Teschner;Zsolt Revay;Janos Borsodi;Michael Hävecker

  • Optimal Water Coverage on Alumina: A Key to Generate Lewis Acid–Base Pairs that are Reactive Towards the CH Bond Activation of Methane

    Raphael Wischert;Christophe Copéret;Christophe Copéret;Françoise Delbecq;Philippe Sautet

  • Images of Adsorbates with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Theoretical Approaches to the Contrast Mechanism.

    Philippe Sautet

  • Rh single atoms on TiO2 dynamically respond to reaction conditions by adapting their site.

    Yan Tang;Chithra Asokan;Mingjie Xu;George W. Graham;George W. Graham

  • Electronic interference produced by a benzene embedded in a polyacetylene chain

    P. Sautet;C. Joachim

Frequent Co-Authors

Carine Michel
Carine Michel Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Pascal Raybaud
Pascal Raybaud French Institute of Petroleum
Marie-Laure Bocquet
Marie-Laure Bocquet École Normale Supérieure
Anastassia N. Alexandrova
Anastassia N. Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles
Jean-Marie Basset
Jean-Marie Basset King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Federico Calle-Vallejo
Federico Calle-Vallejo University of Barcelona
Céline Chizallet
Céline Chizallet French Institute of Petroleum
Hervé Toulhoat
Hervé Toulhoat French Institute of Petroleum
Alejandro A. Franco
Alejandro A. Franco University of Picardie Jules Verne

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