Single‐atom materials: The application in energy conversion

C Zhu, J Yang, J Zhang, X Wang, Y Gao… - Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom materials (SAMs) have become one of the most important power sources to
push the field of energy conversion forward. Among the main types of energy, including …

Enable biomass-derived alcohols mediated alkylation and transfer hydrogenation

X Liu, L Huang, Y Ma, G She, P Zhou, L Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A single-atom catalyst with generally regarded inert Zn–N4 motifs derived from ZIF-8 is
unexpectedly efficient for the activation of alcohols, enabling alcohol-mediated alkylation …

Tuning Active Site Flexibility by Defect Engineering of Graphene Ribbon Edge‐hosted Fe−N3 Sites

P Yang, J Li, DG Vlachos… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐doped, carbon‐supported transition metal catalysts are excellent for several
reactions. Structural engineering of M− Nx sites to boost catalytic activity is rarely studied …

Atomically Dispersed Palladium Driving Reductive Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulose into Alkene-Functionalized Phenols

S Wang, X Li, C Fu, H Li, G Song - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
As lignin represents the only renewable aromatic organic resource in nature, the search for
efficient catalysts for lignin depolymerization to produce functionalized phenols with high …

Self-doping active sites in microbe-derived carbonaceous electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction performance

X Xiao, X Tian, J Li, F Yang, R Bai, F Zhao - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Microorganisms are rich in heteroatoms, which can be self-doped to form active sites during
pyrolysis and loaded on microbe-derived carbonaceous materials. In recent years, microbe …

Nanoarchitectonics of Non-Noble-Metal-Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions: Detailed Insights on Different Hydrogen Sources

D Sharma, P Choudhary, P Mittal, S Kumar… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Catalytic transfer hydrogenation (CTH) methodology has drawn profound attention of
researchers as an economical and environmentally benign alternate to conventional …

Combination of nanoparticles with single-metal sites synergistically boosts co-catalyzed formic acid dehydrogenation

Y Shi, B Luo, R Sang, D Cui, Y Sun, R Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of hydrogen technologies is at the heart of a green economy. As
prerequisite for implementation of hydrogen storage, active and stable catalysts for (de) …

Defects tune the acidic strength of amorphous aluminosilicates

R Verma, C Singhvi, A Venkatesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Crystalline zeolites have high acidity but limited utility due to microporosity, whereas
mesoporous amorphous aluminosilicates offer better porosity but lack sufficient acidity. In …

Regulating Second-Shell Coordination in Cobalt Single-Atom Catalysts toward Highly Selective Hydrogenation

Y Duan, Y Xia, Y Ling, S Zhou, X Liu, Y Lan, X Yin… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Manipulating the local coordination environment of central metal atoms in single-atom
catalysts (SACs) is a powerful strategy to exploit efficient SACs with optimal electronic …

Switchable transformation of biomass-derived furfural to furfuryl alcohol and isopropyl furfuryl ether over a zirconium-based bifunctional catalyst

L Hu, B Sha, Y Shi, N Shen, M Yang, K Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Selectively converting biomass-derived furfural (FF) to furfuryl alcohol (FFA) and isopropyl
furfuryl ether (IPFE) via the same catalytic system is an important strategy for the production …