Single atom catalysts based on earth-abundant metals for energy-related applications

S Kment, A Bakandritsos, I Tantis, H Kmentová… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Anthropogenic activities related to population growth, economic development, technological
advances, and changes in lifestyle and climate patterns result in a continuous increase in …

Active Sites of Cobalt Phthalocyanine in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol

CL Rooney, M Lyons, Y Wu, G Hu, M Wang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many metal coordination compounds catalyze CO2 electroreduction to CO, but cobalt
phthalocyanine hybridized with conductive carbon such as carbon nanotubes is currently …

Atomic high-spin cobalt(II) center for highly selective electrochemical CO reduction to CH3OH

J Ding, Z Wei, F Li, J Zhang, Q Zhang, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In this work, via engineering the conformation of cobalt active center in cobalt
phthalocyanine molecular catalyst, the catalytic efficiency of electrochemical carbon …

The solvation environment of molecularly dispersed cobalt phthalocyanine determines methanol selectivity during electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

Q Zhu, CL Rooney, H Shema, C Zeng, JA Panetier… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
Heterogenized molecular electrocatalysts are a promising group of materials that can
electrocatalytically convert waste molecules into higher-value products. However, how the …

Modulating electronic structure engineering of atomically dispersed cobalt catalyst in Fenton-like reaction for efficient degradation of organic pollutants

B Huang, X Ren, J Zhao, Z Wu, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Currently, the lack of model catalysts limits the understanding of the catalytic essence.
Herein, we report the functional group modification of model single atom catalysts (SACs) …

Palladium-Copper bimetallic catalysts for electroreduction of CO2 and nitrogenous species

F Zhou, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Y Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid surge in global population and fossil fuel utilization over the past two centuries
have disrupted the natural carbon and nitrogen cycles, leading to various environmental …

Metal‐Organic Framework (MOF)‐Based Clean Energy Conversion: Recent Advances in Unlocking its Underlying Mechanisms

Z Zhu, J Duan, S Chen - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon neutrality is an important goal for humanity. As an eco‐friendly technology,
electrocatalytic clean energy conversion technology has emerged in the 21st century …

Potential-driven structural distortion in cobalt phthalocyanine for electrocatalytic CO2/CO reduction towards methanol

H Yang, N Guo, S **, Y Wu, B Yao, Q He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cobalt phthalocyanine immobilized on carbon nanotube has demonstrated appreciable
selectivity and activity for methanol synthesis in electrocatalytic CO2/CO reduction. However …

Multifunctional Film Assembled from N-Doped Carbon Nanofiber with Co–N4–O Single Atoms for Highly Efficient Electromagnetic Energy Attenuation

J Xu, B Li, Z Ma, X Zhang, C Zhu, F Yan, P Yang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Single-atom materials have demonstrated attractive physicochemical characteristics.
However, understanding the relationships between the coordination environment of single …

P-Block Aluminum Single-Atom Catalyst for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with High Intrinsic Activity

Z Ma, B Wang, X Yang, C Ma, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atomically dispersed transition metal sites on nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts hold great
potential for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to CO due to their …