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 …

Optimizing the electrocatalytic selectivity of carbon dioxide reduction reaction by regulating the electronic structure of single‐atom M‐N‐C materials

T Tang, Z Wang, J Guan - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) is an efficient strategy to relieve
global environmental and energy issues by converting excess CO2 from the atmosphere to …

Continuous Modulation of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Activities of Single‐Atom Catalysts through p‐n Junction Rectification

Z Zhuang, L Xia, J Huang, P Zhu, Y Li, C Ye… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐tuning single‐atom catalysts (SACs) to surpass their activity limit remains challenging
at their atomic scale. Herein, we exploit p‐type semiconducting character of SACs having a …

Recent advances in electrocatalysis with phthalocyanines

S Yang, Y Yu, X Gao, Z Zhang, F Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Applications of phthalocyanines (Pcs) in electrocatalysis—including the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR), the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), the oxygen evolution …

Advanced electrocatalysts with single-metal-atom active sites

Y Wang, H Su, Y He, L Li, S Zhu, H Shen, P Xie… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysts with single metal atoms as active sites have received increasing attention
owing to their high atomic utilization efficiency and exotic catalytic activity and selectivity …

An adjacent atomic platinum site enables single‐atom iron with high oxygen reduction reaction performance

A Han, X Wang, K Tang, Z Zhang, C Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The modulation effect has been widely investigated to tune the electronic state of single‐
atomic M‐N‐C catalysts to enhance the activity of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Atomic‐level modulation of electronic density at cobalt single‐atom sites derived from metal–organic frameworks: enhanced oxygen reduction performance

Y Chen, R Gao, S Ji, H Li, K Tang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Demonstrated here is the correlation between atomic configuration induced electronic
density of single‐atom Co active sites and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance by …

Iron phthalocyanine with coordination induced electronic localization to boost oxygen reduction reaction

K Chen, K Liu, P An, H Li, Y Lin, J Hu, C Jia, J Fu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) is a promising non-precious catalyst for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR). Unfortunately, FePc with plane-symmetric FeN4 site usually exhibits an …

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 …

Asymmetric N, P‐Coordinated Single‐Atomic Fe Sites with Fe2P Nanoclusters/Nanoparticles on Porous Carbon Nanosheets for Highly Efficient Oxygen …

H Liu, L Jiang, Y Sun, J Khan, B Feng… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disrupting the symmetrical electron distribution of single‐atomic Fe sites is proposed as an
effective strategy for improving the intrinsic activity in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …