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 …

Co-catalytic metal–support interactions in single-atom electrocatalysts

L Gloag, SV Somerville, JJ Gooding… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are advantageous because every active atom is exposed at
the surface, ensuring maximum utilization of catalytically active metals. To optimize the …

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 …

An adjacent atomic platinum site enables single‐atom iron with high oxygen reduction reaction performance

A Han, X Wang, K Tang, Z Zhang, C Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The modulation effect has been widely investigated to tune the electronic state of single‐
atomic M‐N‐C catalysts to enhance the activity of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Noble-metal single-atoms in thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis

F Zhang, Y Zhu, Q Lin, L Zhang, X Zhang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metals have received widespread applications in the field of catalysis due to their
unique intrinsic properties and irreplaceable catalytic activities. However, in consideration of …

Single‐Atom Catalysts for H2O2 Electrosynthesis via Two‐Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction

M Song, W Liu, J Zhang, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen reduction reaction via the two‐electron route (2e− ORR) provides a green method
for the direct production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) along with in situ utilization. The …

Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide: from homogeneous to heterogeneous electrocatalysis

Y Wang, GIN Waterhouse, L Shang… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an environmentally friendly oxidant, finding
widespread use across the chemical industry, in sanitation and environmental remediation …

Electrocatalysis of single-atom sites: impacts of atomic coordination

B Lu, Q Liu, S Chen - Acs Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single metal atoms embedded within select supporting matrices have shown great potential
in the development of high-efficiency, low-cost electrocatalysts because of maximal atom …

Single-atom alloy with Pt-Co dual sites as an efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

X Cheng, Y Wang, Y Lu, L Zheng, S Sun, H Li… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing the usage of noble metals, such as platinum-based catalysts for oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) is pressingly demanded towards the practical applications of proton …

Advanced noncarbon materials as catalyst supports and non-noble electrocatalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries

S Zhang, M Chen, X Zhao, J Cai, W Yan… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2021 - Springer
Electrochemical energy systems such as fuel cells and metal–air batteries can be used as
clean power sources in the field of electric transportation and possess great potential in the …