Challenges and opportunities in engineering the electronic structure of single-atom catalysts

V Giulimondi, S Mitchell, J Pérez-Ramírez - ACS catalysis, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Controlling the electronic structure of transition-metal single-atom heterogeneous catalysts
(SACs) is crucial to unlocking their full potential. The ability to do this with increasing …

Recent advances in electrocatalysis with phthalocyanines

S Yang, Y Yu, X Gao, Z Zhang, F Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Applications of phthalocyanines (Pcs) in electrocatalysis—including the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR), the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), the oxygen evolution …

Liquid Fluxional Ga Single Atom Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Z Zhang, J Zhu, S Chen, W Sun… - Angewandte Chemie, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Precise design and tuning of the micro‐atomic structure of single atom catalysts (SACs) can
help efficiently adapt complex catalytic systems. Herein, we inventively found that when the …

Supramolecular tuning of supported metal phthalocyanine catalysts for hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis

BH Lee, H Shin, AS Rasouli, H Choubisa, P Ou… - Nature Catalysis, 2023‏ - nature.com
Two-electron oxygen reduction offers a route to H2O2 that is potentially cost-effective and
less energy-intensive than the industrial anthraquinone process. However, the catalytic …

Constrained C2 adsorbate orientation enables CO-to-acetate electroreduction

J **, J Wicks, Q Min, J Li, Y Hu, J Ma, Y Wang, Z Jiang… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide electroreduction reactions, when powered using
low-carbon electricity, offer pathways to the decarbonization of chemical manufacture …

Design of Co‐Cu Diatomic Site Catalysts for High‐efficiency Synergistic CO2 Electroreduction at Industrial‐level Current Density

J Yi, X Gao, H Zhou, W Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Single atom catalysts (SACs) have been widely studied in the field of CO2 electroreduction,
but industrial‐level current density and near‐unity product selectivity are still difficult to …

2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction

IEL Stephens, K Chan, A Bagger… - Journal of Physics …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Electrochemical CO 2 reduction (CO 2 R) is an attractive option for storing
renewable electricity and for the sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels. In …

Rational design of heterogenized molecular phthalocyanine hybrid single-atom electrocatalyst towards two-electron oxygen reduction

W Fan, Z Duan, W Liu, R Mehmood, J Qu… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts supported on solid substrates have inspired extensive interest, but the
rational design of high-efficiency single-atom catalysts is still plagued by ambiguous …

Selective CO2 electrolysis to CO using isolated antimony alloyed copper

J Li, H Zeng, X Dong, Y Ding, S Hu, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Renewable electricity-powered CO evolution from CO2 emissions is a promising first step in
the sustainable production of commodity chemicals, but performing electrochemical CO2 …

Nickel dual-atom sites for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction

Q Hao, H Zhong, J Wang, K Liu, J Yan, Z Ren… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Dual-atom catalysts, combining single-atom catalysts and metal alloys, are promising
electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction but are limited by sluggish CO2 reduction kinetics and ill …