The progress and outlook of metal single-atom-site catalysis

X Liang, N Fu, S Yao, Z Li, Y Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom-site catalysts (SASCs) featuring maximized atom utilization and isolated active
sites have progressed tremendously in recent years as a highly prosperous branch of …

Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

GFSR Rocha, MAR da Silva, A Rogolino… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been
found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces …

The concept of active site in heterogeneous catalysis

C Vogt, BM Weckhuysen - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Catalysis is at the core of chemistry and has been essential to make all the goods
surrounding us, including fuels, coatings, plastics and other functional materials. In the near …

Ensemble effect for single-atom, small cluster and nanoparticle catalysts

Y Guo, M Wang, Q Zhu, D Xiao, D Ma - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
A large family of heterogeneous catalytic reactions require active sites with more than one
metal atom, that is, an ensemble of metal atoms. The ensemble requirement, which refers to …

Single atoms meet metal–organic frameworks: collaborative efforts for efficient photocatalysis

H Liu, M Cheng, Y Liu, J Wang, G Zhang, L Li… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photocatalysts with metal single atoms (SAs) as active sites have attracted widespread
interest owing to their maximum atomic utilization efficiency, well-defined active centers and …

Dynamic stability of copper single-atom catalysts under working conditions

X Bai, X Zhao, Y Zhang, C Ling, Y Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The long-term stability of single-atom catalysts is a major factor affecting their large-scale
commercial application. How to evaluate the dynamic stability of single-atom catalysts under …

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 …

Size of cerium dioxide support nanocrystals dictates reactivity of highly dispersed palladium catalysts

V Muravev, A Parastaev, Y van den Bosch, B Ligt… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The catalytic performance of heterogeneous catalysts can be tuned by modulation of the
size and structure of supported transition metals, which are typically regarded as the active …

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 …

A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC

X Zhang, M Zhang, Y Deng, M Xu, L Artiglia, W Wen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The water–gas shift (WGS) reaction is an industrially important source of pure hydrogen (H2)
at the expense of carbon monoxide and water,. This reaction is of interest for fuel-cell …