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 …

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 …

High-density cobalt single-atom catalysts for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction

P Kumar, K Kannimuthu, AS Zeraati… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single atom catalysts (SACs) possess unique catalytic properties due to low-coordination
and unsaturated active sites. However, the demonstrated performance of SACs is limited by …

Coordination-driven self-assembly strategy-activated Cu single-atom nanozymes for catalytic tumor-specific therapy

J Zhou, D Xu, G Tian, Q He, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
How to optimize the enzyme-like catalytic activity of nanozymes to improve their applicability
has become a great challenge. Herein, we present an l-cysteine (l-Cys) coordination-driven …

General synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high metal loading using graphene quantum dots

C **a, Y Qiu, Y **a, P Zhu, G King, X Zhang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transition-metal single-atom catalysts present extraordinary activity per metal atomic site,
but suffer from low metal-atom densities (typically less than 5 wt% or 1 at.%), which limits …

Theoretical understandings of graphene-based metal single-atom catalysts: stability and catalytic performance

HY Zhuo, X Zhang, JX Liang, Q Yu, H **ao… - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Research on heterogeneous single-atom catalysts (SACs) has become an emerging frontier
in catalysis science because of their advantages in high utilization of noble metals, precisely …

Integrating interactive noble metal single-atom catalysts into transition metal oxide lattices

J Shan, C Ye, C Zhu, J Dong, W Xu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Noble metals have broad prospects for catalytic applications yet are restricted to a few
packing modes with limited structural flexibility. Here, we achieved geometric structure …

Single atom catalysts based on earth-abundant metals for energy-related applications

S Kment, A Bakandritsos, I Tantis, H Kmentová… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Anthropogenic activities related to population growth, economic development, technological
advances, and changes in lifestyle and climate patterns result in a continuous increase in …

Chemical synthesis of single atomic site catalysts

S Ji, Y Chen, X Wang, Z Zhang, D Wang, Y Li - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Manipulating metal atoms in a controllable way for the synthesis of materials with the
desired structure and properties is the holy grail of chemical synthesis. The recent …

Engineering unsymmetrically coordinated Cu-S1N3 single atom sites with enhanced oxygen reduction activity

H Shang, X Zhou, J Dong, A Li, X Zhao, Q Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Atomic interface regulation is thought to be an efficient method to adjust the performance of
single atom catalysts. Herein, a practical strategy was reported to rationally design single …