Emerging low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts with atomic level precision for efficient heterogeneous catalysis

X Zheng, B Li, Q Wang, D Wang, Y Li - Nano research, 2022 - Springer
Supported atomically dispersed metal catalysts (ADMCs) have received enormous attention
due to their high atom utilization efficiency, mass activity and excellent selectivity. Single …

Metal-metal interactions in correlated single-atom catalysts

J Shan, C Ye, Y Jiang, M Jaroniec, Y Zheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) include a promising family of electrocatalysts with unique
geometric structures. Beyond conventional ones with fully isolated metal sites, an emerging …

Superiority of dual‐atom catalysts in electrocatalysis: one step further than single‐atom catalysts

R Li, D Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, dual‐atom catalysts (DACs) have attracted extensive attention, as an
extension of single‐atom catalysts (SACs). Compared with SACs, DACs have higher metal …

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 …

“Capture-Backdonation-Recapture” Mechanism for Promoting N2 Reduction by Heteronuclear Metal-Free Double-Atom Catalysts

Y Wu, C He, W Zhang - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Facing the increasingly serious energy and environmental crisis, the development of
heteronuclear metal-free double-atom catalysts is a potential strategy to realize efficient …

Structural optimization of carbon-based diatomic catalysts towards advanced electrocatalysis

T Tang, Z Wang, J Guan - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
As an extension of single-atom catalysts (SACs), diatomic catalysts (DACs) perfectly inherit
the advantages of SACs but break some theoretical limitations of SACs due to the interaction …

Dinuclear metal synergistic catalysis for energy conversion

DC Zhong, YN Gong, C Zhang, TB Lu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysts featuring dinuclear metal sites are regarded as superior systems compared with
their counterparts with mononuclear metal sites. The dinuclear metal sites in catalysts with …

High-throughput screening of synergistic transition metal dual-atom catalysts for efficient nitrogen fixation

X Lv, W Wei, B Huang, Y Dai, T Frauenheim - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Great enthusiasm in single-atom catalysts (SACs) for the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR)
has been aroused by the discovery of metal–N x as a promising catalytic center. However …

Noble-metal single-atoms in thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis

F Zhang, Y Zhu, Q Lin, L Zhang, X Zhang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metals have received widespread applications in the field of catalysis due to their
unique intrinsic properties and irreplaceable catalytic activities. However, in consideration of …

“More is different:” synergistic effect and structural engineering in double‐atom catalysts

Y Ying, X Luo, J Qiao, H Huang - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Double‐atom catalysts (DACs) have emerged as a novel frontier in heterogeneous catalysis
because the synergistic effect between adjacent active sites can promote their catalytic …