Single-atom catalysis in advanced oxidation processes for environmental remediation

Y Shang, X Xu, B Gao, S Wang, X Duan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Emerging single atom catalysts (SACs), especially carbon-based SACs are appealing
materials in environmental catalysis because of their ultrahigh performances, environmental …

Recent advances in electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and alkaline membrane fuel cells

F **ao, YC Wang, ZP Wu, G Chen, F Yang… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The rapid progress of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and alkaline
exchange membrane fuel cells (AMFCs) has boosted the hydrogen economy concept via …

Vacancy Defects Inductive Effect of Asymmetrically Coordinated Single‐Atom Fe─N3S1 Active Sites for Robust Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction with High …

Y Zhao, HC Chen, X Ma, J Li, Q Yuan… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of facile, efficient synthesis method to construct low‐cost and high‐
performance single‐atom catalysts (SACs) for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is extremely …

Atomically dispersed Pt and Fe sites and Pt–Fe nanoparticles for durable proton exchange membrane fuel cells

F **ao, Q Wang, GL Xu, X Qin, I Hwang, CJ Sun… - Nature Catalysis, 2022‏ - nature.com
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity without
emissions. The high cost and low durability of Pt-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen …

Functional metal/carbon composites derived from metal–organic frameworks: insight into structures, properties, performances, and mechanisms

W **ao, M Cheng, Y Liu, J Wang, G Zhang, Z Wei… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have extensively emerged as promising
templates/precursors to prepare functional derivatives for various purposes because of their …

Regulating Fe-spin state by atomically dispersed Mn-N in Fe-NC catalysts with high oxygen reduction activity

G Yang, J Zhu, P Yuan, Y Hu, G Qu, BA Lu… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
As low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction applied to fuel cells and metal-air
batteries, atomic-dispersed transition metal-nitrogen-carbon materials are emerging, but the …

Fe/Co dual metal catalysts modulated by S-ligands for efficient acidic oxygen reduction in PEMFC

F Liu, L Shi, X Lin, B Zhang, Y Long, F Ye, R Yan… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Here, we report a conceptual strategy for introducing spatial sulfur (S)–bridge ligands to
regulate the coordination environment of Fe-Co-N dual-metal centers (Spa-S-Fe, Co/NC) …

Metal–organic framework-based catalysts with single metal sites

YS Wei, M Zhang, R Zou, Q Xu - Chemical reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of distinctive porous crystalline materials
constructed by metal ions/clusters and organic linkers. Owing to their structural diversity …

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 …

Fe–N–C boosts the stability of supported platinum nanoparticles for fuel cells

F **ao, Y Wang, GL Xu, F Yang, S Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The poor durability of Pt-based nanoparticles dispersed on carbon black is the challenge for
the application of long-life polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Recent work suggests that Fe-and N …