Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

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 …

Recent progress on single-atom catalysts for lithium–air battery applications

T Bai, D Li, S **ao, F Ji, S Zhang, C Wang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Lithium–air batteries (LABs) have attracted extensive attention due to their high theoretical
energy density based on the “Holy Grail”, the lithium metal anode and the inexhaustible air …

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 …

General design concept for single‐atom catalysts toward heterogeneous catalysis

W Guo, Z Wang, X Wang, Y Wu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a new and popular material, single‐atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit excellent activity,
selectivity, and stability for numerous important reactions, and show great potential in …

Single-atom alloy catalysis

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-atom alloys (SAAs) play an increasingly significant role in the field of single-site
catalysis and are typically composed of catalytically active elements atomically dispersed in …

The effect of coordination environment on the activity and selectivity of single-atom catalysts

Y Zhang, J Yang, R Ge, J Zhang, JM Cairney… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional heterogeneous catalysts with noble metals as active sites only have surface-
active substances involved in the catalytic reactions, which greatly reduces the material …

Dual Single‐Atomic Ni‐N4 and Fe‐N4 Sites Constructing Janus Hollow Graphene for Selective Oxygen Electrocatalysis

J Chen, H Li, C Fan, Q Meng, Y Tang, X Qiu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐coordinated metal single atoms in carbon have aroused extensive interest recently
and have been growing as an active research frontier in a wide range of key renewable …

Intrinsic electrocatalytic activity regulation of M–N–C single‐atom catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

CX Zhao, BQ Li, JN Liu, Q Zhang - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) with highly active sites atomically dispersed on substrates
exhibit unique advantages regarding maximum atomic efficiency, abundant chemical …

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 …