Bimetallic sites for catalysis: from binuclear metal sites to bimetallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

GFSR Rocha, MAR da Silva, A Rogolino… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been
found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces …

Subnanometric Ru clusters with upshifted D band center improve performance for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

Q Hu, K Gao, X Wang, H Zheng, J Cao, L Mi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Subnanometric metal clusters usually have unique electronic structures and may display
electrocatalytic performance distinctive from single atoms (SAs) and larger nanoparticles …

Metal sites in zeolites: synthesis, characterization, and catalysis

Q Zhang, S Gao, J Yu - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Zeolites with ordered microporous systems, distinct framework topologies, good spatial
nanoconfinement effects, and superior (hydro) thermal stability are an ideal scaffold for …

Design of the synergistic rectifying interfaces in Mott–Schottky catalysts

D Xu, SN Zhang, JS Chen, XH Li - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The functions of interfacial synergy in heterojunction catalysts are diverse and powerful,
providing a route to solve many difficulties in energy conversion and organic synthesis …

Engineering the electronic structure of single‐atom iron sites with boosted oxygen bifunctional activity for zinc–air batteries

Z Li, S Ji, C Xu, L Leng, H Liu, JH Horton… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rechargeable zinc–air batteries typically require efficient, durable, and inexpensive
bifunctional electrocatalysts to support oxygen reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER) …

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 …

Ensemble effect for single-atom, small cluster and nanoparticle catalysts

Y Guo, M Wang, Q Zhu, D **ao, D Ma - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
A large family of heterogeneous catalytic reactions require active sites with more than one
metal atom, that is, an ensemble of metal atoms. The ensemble requirement, which refers to …

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 …