Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X **ao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

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 …

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

W Song, C **ao, J Ding, Z Huang, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This topical review focuses on the distinct role of carbon support coordination environment
of single‐atom catalysts (SACs) for electrocatalysis. The article begins with an overview of …

Enabling specific photocatalytic methane oxidation by controlling free radical type

Y Jiang, S Li, S Wang, Y Zhang, C Long… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Selective CH4 oxidation to CH3OH or HCHO with O2 in H2O under mild conditions provides
a desired sustainable pathway for synthesis of commodity chemicals. However …

Synergy of dual-atom catalysts deviated from the scaling relationship for oxygen evolution reaction

C Fang, J Zhou, L Zhang, W Wan, Y Ding… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dual-atom catalysts, particularly those with heteronuclear active sites, have the potential to
outperform the well-established single-atom catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, but the …

Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis

X Li, S Mitchell, Y Fang, J Li, J Perez-Ramirez… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Heterogeneous single-cluster catalysts (SCCs) comprising atomically precise and isolated
metal clusters stabilized on appropriately chosen supports offer exciting prospects for …

Iron atom–cluster interactions increase activity and improve durability in Fe–N–C fuel cells

X Wan, Q Liu, J Liu, S Liu, X Liu, L Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Simultaneously increasing the activity and stability of the single-atom active sites of M–N–C
catalysts is critical but remains a great challenge. Here, we report an Fe–N–C catalyst with …

General synthesis of a diatomic catalyst library via a macrocyclic precursor-mediated approach

YX Zhang, S Zhang, H Huang, X Liu, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts containing diatomic sites are often hypothesized to have distinctive
reactivity due to synergistic effects, but there are limited approaches that enable the …

Tuning the spin state of Fe single atoms by Pd nanoclusters enables robust oxygen reduction with dissociative pathway

X Wei, S Song, W Cai, X Luo, L Jiao, Q Fang, X Wang… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
The development of Fe single-atom catalysts is greatly impeded by their lower oxygen
reduction reaction (ORR) performance in acid electrolytes when compared with Pt/C …

Superiority of dual‐atom catalysts in electrocatalysis: one step further than single‐atom catalysts

R Li, D Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, dual‐atom catalysts (DACs) have attracted extensive attention, as an
extension of single‐atom catalysts (SACs). Compared with SACs, DACs have higher metal …