Advances in the development of single‐atom catalysts for high‐energy‐density lithium–sulfur batteries

Z Liang, J Shen, X Xu, F Li, J Liu, B Yuan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are promising next‐generation energy‐storage
systems, their practical applications are limited by the growth of Li dendrites and lithium …

Single-atom catalysis in advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation

Y Shang, X Xu, B Gao, S Wang, X Duan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Emerging single atom catalysts (SACs), especially carbon-based SACs are appealing
materials in environmental catalysis because of their ultrahigh performances, environmental …

Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …

An atomically dispersed Mn-photocatalyst for generating hydrogen peroxide from seawater via the water oxidation reaction (WOR)

P Ren, T Zhang, N Jain, HYV Ching… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we have fabricated an aryl amino-substituted graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)
catalyst with atomically dispersed Mn capable of generating hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) …

A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs

L Han, H Cheng, W Liu, H Li, P Ou, R Lin, HT Wang… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Atomically dispersed single-atom catalysts have the potential to bridge heterogeneous and
homogeneous catalysis. Dozens of single-atom catalysts have been developed, and they …

Attenuating metal-substrate conjugation in atomically dispersed nickel catalysts for electroreduction of CO2 to CO

Q Wang, K Liu, K Hu, C Cai, H Li, H Li, M Herran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Atomically dispersed transition metals on carbon-based aromatic substrates are an
emerging class of electrocatalysts for the electroreduction of CO2. However, electron …

Clusters induced electron redistribution to tune oxygen reduction activity of transition metal single‐atom for metal–air batteries

H Huang, D Yu, F Hu, SC Huang, J Song… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity can be effectively tuned by modulating the electron
configuration and optimizing the chemical bonds. Herein, a general strategy to optimize the …

General synthesis of a diatomic catalyst library via a macrocyclic precursor-mediated approach

YX Zhang, S Zhang, H Huang, X Liu, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts containing diatomic sites are often hypothesized to have distinctive
reactivity due to synergistic effects, but there are limited approaches that enable the …