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 …

Single-atom catalysts across the periodic table

SK Kaiser, Z Chen, D Faust Akl, S Mitchell… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Isolated atoms featuring unique reactivity are at the heart of enzymatic and homogeneous
catalysts. In contrast, although the concept has long existed, single-atom heterogeneous …

Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen–carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells

S Liu, C Li, MJ Zachman, Y Zeng, H Yu, B Li, M Wang… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen-coordinated single atom iron sites (FeN4) embedded in carbon (Fe–N–C) are the
most active platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction catalysts for proton-exchange …

Engineering dual single‐atom sites on 2D ultrathin N‐doped carbon nanosheets attaining ultra‐low‐temperature zinc‐air battery

T Cui, YP Wang, T Ye, J Wu, Z Chen, J Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, a novel dual single‐atom catalyst comprising adjacent Fe‐N4 and Mn‐N4 sites on
2D ultrathin N‐doped carbon nanosheets with porous structure (FeMn‐DSAC) was …

Artificial-enzymes-armed Bifidobacterium longum probiotics for alleviating intestinal inflammation and microbiota dysbiosis

F Cao, L **, Y Gao, Y Ding, H Wen, Z Qian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease can be caused by the dysfunction of the intestinal mucosal
barrier and dysregulation of gut microbiota. Traditional treatments use drugs to manage …

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 …

Regulating Fe-spin state by atomically dispersed Mn-N in Fe-NC catalysts with high oxygen reduction activity

G Yang, J Zhu, P Yuan, Y Hu, G Qu, BA Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction applied to fuel cells and metal-air
batteries, atomic-dispersed transition metal-nitrogen-carbon materials are emerging, but the …

Metal catalysts for heterogeneous catalysis: from single atoms to nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Metal species with different size (single atoms, nanoclusters, and nanoparticles) show
different catalytic behavior for various heterogeneous catalytic reactions. It has been shown …

Advanced electrocatalysts with single-metal-atom active sites

Y Wang, H Su, Y He, L Li, S Zhu, H Shen, P **e… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysts with single metal atoms as active sites have received increasing attention
owing to their high atomic utilization efficiency and exotic catalytic activity and selectivity …

Heterogeneous single-atom catalysis

A Wang, J Li, T Zhang - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysis has arguably become the most active new frontier in heterogeneous
catalysis. Aided by recent advances in practical synthetic methodologies, characterization …