Recent progress of metal single-atom catalysts for energy applications

Q Yang, Y Jiang, H Zhuo, EM Mitchell, Q Yu - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received tremendous attention in heterogeneous
catalysis because of their excellent catalytic performance and robust stability. Metal SACs …

The Role of In Situ/Operando IR Spectroscopy in Unraveling Adsorbate-Induced Structural Changes in Heterogeneous Catalysis

E Groppo, S Rojas-Buzo, S Bordiga - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts undergo thermal-and/or adsorbate-induced dynamic changes
under reaction conditions, which consequently modify their catalytic behavior. Hence, it is …

Reverse oxygen spillover triggered by CO adsorption on Sn-doped Pt/TiO2 for low-temperature CO oxidation

J Chen, S **ong, H Liu, J Shi, J Mi, H Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The spillover of oxygen species is fundamentally important in redox reactions, but the
spillover mechanism has been less understood compared to that of hydrogen spillover …

Progress in batch preparation of single-atom catalysts and application in sustainable synthesis of fine chemicals

Y Hu, H Li, Z Li, B Li, S Wang, Y Yao, C Yu - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In 2011, Zhang's research team, in cooperation with Li and Liu, reported the Pt1/FeOx
atomically dispersed catalysts for the first time in the world, and based on this, proposed the …

Synergic Effect of Isolated Ce3+ and Ptδ+ Species in UiO-66(Ce) for Heterogeneous Catalysis

S Rojas-Buzo, B Bohigues, D Salusso, A Corma… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we have synthesized through an efficient electrostatic deposition a Pt single-
atom catalyst (SAC) supported on a Ce-MOF. The basic solution employed in the …

Emerging Single‐Atom Catalysts/Nanozymes for Catalytic Biomedical Applications

Z Wang, FG Wu - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) are a type of atomically dispersed nanozymes with the highest
atom utilization, which employ low‐coordinated single atoms as the catalytically active sites …

Metal oxides confine single atoms toward efficient thermal catalysis

M Humayun, M Israr, Z Li, W Luo, C Wang - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have drawn the attention of material scientists due to their high
atomic-scale utilization efficiency and excellent thermal catalytic activity and selectivity …

Catalysts with single metal atoms for the hydrogen production from formic acid

DA Bulushev, LG Bulusheva - Catalysis Reviews, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Formic acid is a liquid organic hydrogen carrier. Metal and metal-complex catalysts are
known to catalyze the hydrogen production from formic acid and hydrogen transfer reactions …

Effects of carbon vacancies on the CO oxidation on Cu double atom catalyst supported by graphene

Q Jiang, D **ao, H Dong, Y Wu, Z Ao - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
The activity of double metal atoms is closely related to their chemical coordination
environments. In this work, CO oxidation on Cu double atom catalyst loaded on defective …

Ga-doped Pd/CeO2 model catalysts for CO oxidation reactivity: A density functional theory study

S Tang, L Xu, B Peng, F **ong, T Chen, X Luo… - Applied Surface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceria-supported Pd single-atom catalysts (SACs) are important catalysts to catalyze the CO
oxidation, often used in three-way catalysts to treat automobile exhaust gases. This paper …