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 …

Catalysis with two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures

D Deng, KS Novoselov, Q Fu, N Zheng, Z Tian… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Graphene and other 2D atomic crystals are of considerable interest in catalysis because of
their unique structural and electronic properties. Over the past decade, the materials have …

Identification of catalytic sites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in N-doped graphene materials: Development of highly efficient metal-free bifunctional …

HB Yang, J Miao, SF Hung, J Chen, HB Tao… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are critical to
renewable energy conversion and storage technologies. Heteroatom-doped carbon …

Do** of carbon materials for metal‐free electrocatalysis

C Hu, L Dai - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon atoms in the graphitic carbon skeleton can be replaced by heteroatoms with different
electronegative from that of the carbon atom (ie, heteroatom do**) to modulate the charge …

Recent progress in the development of biomass-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon

BM Matsagar, RX Yang, S Dutta, YS Ok… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review offers a focused discussion on the recent progress of biomass-derived nitrogen-
doped porous carbon (NPC) and its applications. Various synthesis methods for biomass …

Carbon-based metal-free catalysts

X Liu, L Dai - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Metals and metal oxides are widely used as catalysts for materials production, clean energy
generation and storage, and many other important industrial processes. However, metal …

N-do**-induced nonradical reaction on single-walled carbon nanotubes for catalytic phenol oxidation

X Duan, H Sun, Y Wang, J Kang, S Wang - Acs Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metal-free materials have been demonstrated to be promising alternatives to conventional
metal-based catalysts. Catalysis on nanocarbons comparable to that of cobalt-or …

Metal-free carbon materials for persulfate-based advanced oxidation process: Microstructure, property and tailoring

J Yu, H Feng, L Tang, Y Pang, G Zeng, Y Lu… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal-free carbon materials (MFCMs), as newly emerging efficient catalysts in persulfate-
based advanced oxidation process (PS-AOP), have exhibited great engineering-application …

Nitrogen-doped graphene for generation and evolution of reactive radicals by metal-free catalysis

X Duan, Z Ao, H Sun, S Indrawirawan… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
N-Doped graphene (NG) nanomaterials were synthesized by directly annealing graphene
oxide (GO) with a novel nitrogen precursor of melamine. A high N-do** level, 8–11 at …

Synthesis, characterization, and application of metal nanoparticles supported on nitrogen‐doped carbon: catalysis beyond electrochemistry

L He, F Weniger, H Neumann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoparticles deposited on N‐doped carbon materials have emerged as novel
catalysts for various organic transformations. In this Minireview, strategies for the synthesis …