Recent progress of metal single-atom catalysts for energy applications

Q Yang, Y Jiang, H Zhuo, EM Mitchell, Q Yu - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have received tremendous attention in heterogeneous
catalysis because of their excellent catalytic performance and robust stability. Metal SACs …

Single-atom (iron-based) catalysts: synthesis and applications

B Singh, MB Gawande, AD Kute, RS Varma… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Supported single-metal atom catalysts (SACs) are constituted of isolated active metal
centers, which are heterogenized on inert supports such as graphene, porous carbon, and …

Towards dense single-atom catalysts for future automotive applications

A Beniya, S Higashi - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
CO oxidation is an important primary reaction in automotive catalysis, and has been studied
extensively since the 1970s because of its fundamental nature and technological relevance …

Catalyst architecture for stable single atom dispersion enables site-specific spectroscopic and reactivity measurements of CO adsorbed to Pt atoms, oxidized Pt …

L DeRita, S Dai, K Lopez-Zepeda, N Pham… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Oxide-supported precious metal nanoparticles are widely used industrial catalysts. Due to
expense and rarity, develo** synthetic protocols that reduce precious metal nanoparticle …

[HTML][HTML] Designing single-atom catalysts toward improved alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

F Abdelghafar, X Xu, Z Shao - Materials Reports: Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrochemical water splitting powered by renewables-generated electricity represents a
promising approach for green hydrogen production. However, the sluggish kinetics for the …

Supported noble‐metal single atoms for heterogeneous catalysis

X Li, X Yang, Y Huang, T Zhang, B Liu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Single‐atom catalysts (SACs), with atomically distributed active metal sites on
supports, serve as a newly advanced material in catalysis, and open broad prospects for a …

Metal-support interaction for heterogeneous catalysis: from nanoparticles to single atoms

Y Lou, J Xu, Y Zhang, C Pan, Y Dong, Y Zhu - Materials Today Nano, 2020 - Elsevier
With the downsizing of metal sizes (nanoparticles, nanoclusters, and single atoms), the
catalytic behaviors of supported metal species change significantly for various chemical …

The multifaceted reactivity of single‐atom heterogeneous catalysts

S Mitchell, E Vorobyeva… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom heterogeneous catalysts (SACs) attached to carefully chosen hosts are
attracting considerable interest; principally because they offer maximum utilization per metal …

Determination of the evolution of heterogeneous single metal atoms and nanoclusters under reaction conditions: which are the working catalytic sites?

L Liu, DM Meira, R Arenal, P Concepcion, AV Puga… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Identification of active sites in heterogeneous metal catalysts is critical for understanding the
reaction mechanism at the molecular level and for designing more efficient catalysts …

Strategies for stabilizing atomically dispersed metal catalysts

R Qin, P Liu, G Fu, N Zheng - Small Methods, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically dispersing metal atoms on supports provides an ideal strategy for maximizing
metal utilization for catalysis, which is particularly important for fabricating cost‐effective …