Bimetallic sites for catalysis: from binuclear metal sites to bimetallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles

L Liu, A Corma - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

The progress and outlook of metal single-atom-site catalysis

X Liang, N Fu, S Yao, Z Li, Y Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom-site catalysts (SASCs) featuring maximized atom utilization and isolated active
sites have progressed tremendously in recent years as a highly prosperous branch of …

Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen–carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells

S Liu, C Li, MJ Zachman, Y Zeng, H Yu, B Li, M Wang… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen-coordinated single atom iron sites (FeN4) embedded in carbon (Fe–N–C) are the
most active platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction catalysts for proton-exchange …

Boosting Bi‐Directional Redox of Sulfur with Dual Metal Single Atom Pairs in Carbon Spheres Toward High‐Rate and Long‐Cycling Lithium–Sulfur Battery

C Dong, C Zhou, M Wu, Y Yu, K Yu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The severe shuttle effect of polysulfides and sluggish redox kinetics are the main problems
that hinder the practical applications of lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. In this study, dual …

Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …

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 …

Emerging low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts with atomic level precision for efficient heterogeneous catalysis

X Zheng, B Li, Q Wang, D Wang, Y Li - Nano research, 2022 - Springer
Supported atomically dispersed metal catalysts (ADMCs) have received enormous attention
due to their high atom utilization efficiency, mass activity and excellent selectivity. Single …

Mesopore‐Rich Fe–N–C Catalyst with FeN4–O–NC Single‐Atom Sites Delivers Remarkable Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance in Alkaline Media

L Peng, J Yang, Y Yang, F Qian, Q Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fe–N–C catalysts offer excellent performance for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in
alkaline media. With a view toward boosting the intrinsic ORR activity of Fe single‐atom sites …

Metal ions confined in periodic pores of MOFs to embed single‐metal atoms within hierarchically porous carbon nanoflowers for high‐performance electromagnetic …

X Zhang, B Li, J Xu, X Zhang, Y Shi… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocarbons with single‐metal atoms (M‐SAs) have displayed considerable potential in
various fields of application due to high free energy of M‐SAs and strong metal‐support …

A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs

L Han, H Cheng, W Liu, H Li, P Ou, R Lin, HT Wang… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Atomically dispersed single-atom catalysts have the potential to bridge heterogeneous and
homogeneous catalysis. Dozens of single-atom catalysts have been developed, and they …