Design Principles of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: From Targeted Structures to Active Sites

F Jiang, Y Li, Y Pan - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen production from electrolytic water electrolysis is considered a viable method for
hydrogen production with significant social value due to its clean and pollution‐free nature …

Machine learning for design principles for single atom catalysts towards electrochemical reactions

M Tamtaji, H Gao, MD Hossain, PR Galligan… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Machine learning (ML) integrated density functional theory (DFT) calculations have recently
been used to accelerate the design and discovery of heterogeneous catalysts such as single …

Elucidating electrochemical nitrate and nitrite reduction over atomically-dispersed transition metal sites

E Murphy, Y Liu, I Matanovic, M Rüscher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic reduction of waste nitrates (NO3−) enables the synthesis of ammonia (NH3)
in a carbon neutral and decentralized manner. Atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon …

Novel (Pt‐Ox)‐(Co‐Oy) Nonbonding Active Structures on Defective Carbon from Oxygen‐Rich Coal Tar Pitch for Efficient HER and ORR

J Zhang, M Wang, T Wan, H Shi, A Lv… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic‐scale utilization and coordination structure of Pt electrocatalyst is extremely crucial to
decrease loading mass and maximize activity for hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) and …

Revisiting the universal principle for the rational design of single-atom electrocatalysts

H Xu, D Cheng, D Cao, XC Zeng - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
The notion of descriptors has been widely used for assessing structure–activity relationships
for many types of heterogenous catalytic reaction, as well as in searching for highly active …

Superoxo and peroxo complexes on single-atom catalysts: Impact on the oxygen evolution reaction

LA Cipriano, G Di Liberto, G Pacchioni - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this work, we demonstrate the essential role of the formation of superoxo and peroxo
complexes on single-atom catalysts (SACs), an aspect that is often neglected in the study of …

Modeling Single‐Atom Catalysis

G Di Liberto, G Pacchioni - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic structure calculations represent an essential complement of experiments to
characterize single‐atom catalysts (SACs), consisting of isolated metal atoms stabilized on a …

Selectivity of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Metal Electrodes: The Role of the Surface Oxidized Layer

X Chen, L Cavallo, KW Huang - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been employed to
study the mechanism of electrochemical CO2 reduction reactions. However, the lack of …

Universal Sub‐Nanoreactor Strategy for Synthesis of Yolk‐Shell MoS2 Supported Single Atom Electrocatalysts toward Robust Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

F Gong, Y Liu, Y Zhao, W Liu, G Zeng… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The coordination structure determines the electrocatalytic performances of single atom
catalysts (SACs), while it remains a challenge to precisely regulate their spatial location and …

Does the Oxygen Evolution Reaction follow the classical OH*, O*, OOH* path on single atom catalysts?

I Barlocco, LA Cipriano, G Di Liberto, G Pacchioni - Journal of Catalysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) is a key part of water splitting. On metal and
oxide surfaces it usually occurs via formation of three intermediates, M (OH), M (O), and M …