The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

Designing sites in heterogeneous catalysis: are we reaching selectivities competitive with those of homogeneous catalysts?

F Zaera - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
A critical review of different prominent nanotechnologies adapted to catalysis is provided,
with focus on how they contribute to the improvement of selectivity in heterogeneous …

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 catalysts based on the metal–oxide interaction

R Lang, X Du, Y Huang, X Jiang, Q Zhang… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal atoms dispersed on the oxide supports constitute a large category of single-atom
catalysts. In this review, oxide supported single-atom catalysts are discussed about their …

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 …

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 …

Heterogeneous single-atom photocatalysts: fundamentals and applications

C Gao, J Low, R Long, T Kong, J Zhu, Y **ong - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-atom photocatalysts have shown their compelling potential and arguably become the
most active research direction in photocatalysis due to their fascinating strengths in …

Noble-metal single-atoms in thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis

F Zhang, Y Zhu, Q Lin, L Zhang, X Zhang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metals have received widespread applications in the field of catalysis due to their
unique intrinsic properties and irreplaceable catalytic activities. However, in consideration of …

Selectively anchoring single atoms on specific sites of supports for improved oxygen evolution

Z Zhang, C Feng, D Wang, S Zhou, R Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The homogeneity of single-atom catalysts is only to the first-order approximation when all
isolated metal centers interact identically with the support. Since the realistic support with …

Soft template-directed interlayer confinement synthesis of a Fe-Co dual single-atom catalyst for Zn-air batteries

Y Wu, C Ye, L Yu, Y Liu, J Huang, J Bi, L Xue… - Energy Storage …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dual single-atom catalysts (DSACs) with maximized atomic utilization efficiency largely
depend on stabilization of dual-metallic single atoms on ideal supports, such as those two …