Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

GFSR Rocha, MAR da Silva, A Rogolino… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been
found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces …

Challenges and opportunities in engineering the electronic structure of single-atom catalysts

V Giulimondi, S Mitchell, J Pérez-Ramírez - ACS catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlling the electronic structure of transition-metal single-atom heterogeneous catalysts
(SACs) is crucial to unlocking their full potential. The ability to do this with increasing …

Understanding the unique S-scheme charge migration in triazine/heptazine crystalline carbon nitride homojunction

F Li, X Yue, Y Liao, L Qiao, K Lv, Q **ang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding charge transfer dynamics and carrier separation pathway is challenging due
to the lack of appropriate characterization strategies. In this work, a crystalline …

Selective Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO Mediated by Silver Single Atoms Anchored on Tubular Carbon Nitride

S Hu, P Qiao, X Yi, Y Lei, H Hu, J Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial photosynthesis is a promising strategy for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) and
water (H2O) into fuels and value‐added chemical products. However, photocatalysts usually …

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 …

Atomically dispersed silver‐cobalt dual‐metal sites synergistically promoting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Y Liu, Y Sun, E Zhao, W Yang, J Lin… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Regulating the coordination environment of single‐atom sites is of high necessity to promote
the catalytic performances of the photocatalysts. Herein, the preparation of atomically …

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 …

Surface coordination chemistry of atomically dispersed metal catalysts

R Qin, K Liu, Q Wu, N Zheng - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Atomically dispersed metal catalysts (ADCs), as an emerging class of heterogeneous
catalysts, have been widely investigated during the past two decades. The atomic dispersion …

Carbon-based single-atom catalysts for advanced applications

MB Gawande, P Fornasiero, R Zbořil - Acs Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carbon-based materials are widely employed as metal-free catalysts or supports in
catalysis, energy, and ecological applications because of their interesting properties …

Tuning the CO2 Hydrogenation Selectivity of Rhodium Single‐Atom Catalysts on Zirconium Dioxide with Alkali Ions

S Li, Y Xu, H Wang, B Teng, Q Liu, Q Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tuning the coordination environments of metal single atoms (M1) in single‐atom catalysts
has shown large impacts on catalytic activity and stability but often barely on selectivity in …