The progress and outlook of metal single-atom-site catalysis

X Liang, N Fu, S Yao, Z Li, Y Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom-site catalysts (SASCs) featuring maximized atom utilization and isolated active
sites have progressed tremendously in recent years as a highly prosperous branch of …

The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

Phase-dependent growth of Pt on MoS2 for highly efficient H2 evolution

Z Shi, X Zhang, X Lin, G Liu, C Ling, S **, B Chen, Y Ge… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Crystal phase is a key factor determining the properties, and hence functions, of two-
dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs),. The TMD materials, explored for …

The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation

H Zhao, R Yu, S Ma, K Xu, Y Chen, K Jiang, Y Fang… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Copper-based catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol have attracted much
interest. The complex nature of these catalysts, however, renders the elucidation of their …

Emerging low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts with atomic level precision for efficient heterogeneous catalysis

X Zheng, B Li, Q Wang, D Wang, Y Li - Nano research, 2022 - Springer
Supported atomically dispersed metal catalysts (ADMCs) have received enormous attention
due to their high atom utilization efficiency, mass activity and excellent selectivity. Single …

Surface and interface coordination chemistry learned from model heterogeneous metal nanocatalysts: from atomically dispersed catalysts to atomically precise …

W **g, H Shen, R Qin, Q Wu, K Liu, N Zheng - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The surface and interface coordination structures of heterogeneous metal catalysts are
crucial to their catalytic performance. However, the complicated surface and interface …

Strong metal–support interaction in heterogeneous catalysts

Z Luo, G Zhao, H Pan, W Sun - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) in supported metal catalysts, typically accompanied
by the formation of encapsulation layers over metal nanoparticles, has drawn intense …

Metal-metal interactions in correlated single-atom catalysts

J Shan, C Ye, Y Jiang, M Jaroniec, Y Zheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) include a promising family of electrocatalysts with unique
geometric structures. Beyond conventional ones with fully isolated metal sites, an emerging …

Recent advances of single-atom catalysts in CO 2 conversion

S Wang, L Wang, D Wang, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The catalytic transformation of CO2 into valuable fuels/chemicals is a promising and
economically profitable process because it offers an alternative toward fossil feedstocks and …

Superiority of dual‐atom catalysts in electrocatalysis: one step further than single‐atom catalysts

R Li, D Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, dual‐atom catalysts (DACs) have attracted extensive attention, as an
extension of single‐atom catalysts (SACs). Compared with SACs, DACs have higher metal …