Microenvironment engineering of single/dual‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic application

Y Gao, B Liu, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single/dual‐metal atoms supported on carbon matrix can be modulated by coordination
structure and neighboring active sites. Precisely designing the geometric and electronic …

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 …

Stabilizing Copper by a Reconstruction-Resistant Atomic Cu–O–Si Interface for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

X Tan, K Sun, Z Zhuang, B Hu, Y Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Copper (Cu), a promising catalyst for electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) to multi-
electron reduction products, suffers from an unavoidable and uncontrollable reconstruction …

Single-atom Nb anchored on graphitic carbon nitride for boosting electron transfer towards improved photocatalytic performance

J Luo, H Han, X Wang, X Qiu, B Liu, Y Lai… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-atom Nb anchored on gC 3 N 4 was prepared by facile thermal polymerization.
Compared with pure gC 3 N 4, optimized Nb-anchoring samples exhibited excellent CO and …

Review of carbon support coordination environments for single metal atom electrocatalysts (SACS)

W Song, C ** for CO2 electroreduction
Z Li, X Qi, J Wang, Z Zhu, J Jiang, X Niu, A Cabot… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nickel‐nitrogen‐carbon single‐atom catalysts have attracted widespread interest for CO2
electroreduction but they suffer from poor stability. Herein, we report on the preparation of Cl …