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 …

Multi-atom cluster catalysts for efficient electrocatalysis

L Sun, V Reddu, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-atom cluster catalysts have turned out to be novel heterogeneous catalysts with atomic
dispersion for electrochemical energy applications. Beyond a simple combination of single …

Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

S Zhang, J Wu, M Zheng, X Jin, Z Shen, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia offers an efficient approach to reducing
nitrate pollutants and a potential technology for low-temperature and low-pressure ammonia …

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 …

General synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high metal loading using graphene quantum dots

C Xia, Y Qiu, Y Xia, P Zhu, G King, X Zhang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transition-metal single-atom catalysts present extraordinary activity per metal atomic site,
but suffer from low metal-atom densities (typically less than 5 wt% or 1 at.%), which limits …

Electronic metal–support interaction of single‐atom catalysts and applications in electrocatalysis

J Yang, W Li, D Wang, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The electronic metal–support interaction (EMSI), which acts as a bridge between theoretical
electronic study and the design of heterogenous catalysts, has attracted much attention …

Bifunctional hydroformylation on heterogeneous Rh-WOx pair site catalysts

I Ro, J Qi, S Lee, M Xu, X Yan, Z Xie, G Zakem… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Metal-catalysed reactions are often hypothesized to proceed on bifunctional active sites,
whereby colocalized reactive species facilitate distinct elementary steps in a catalytic …

First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis, R Réocreux… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The complexity of heterogeneous catalysts means that a priori design of new catalytic
materials is difficult, but the well-defined nature of single-atom–alloy catalysts has made it …

Recent advances of single‐atom‐alloy for energy electrocatalysis

T Shen, S Wang, T Zhao, Y Hu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Single‐atom‐alloys (SAAs), as an emerging kind of materials, combine the
advantages of alloy and single‐atom catalysts. The full atomic utilization of active sites and …

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 …