Nanoscale Metal Particle Modified Single‐Atom Catalyst: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application

R Chen, S Chen, L Wang, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted considerable attention in heterogeneous
catalysis because of their well‐defined active sites, maximum atomic utilization efficiency …

Nitrogen‐rich carbonaceous materials for advanced oxygen electrocatalysis: synthesis, characterization, and activity of nitrogen sites

B Wu, H Meng, DM Morales, F Zeng… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐doped carbons are among the fastest‐growing class of materials used for oxygen
electrocatalysis, namely, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution …

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 …

General synthesis of a diatomic catalyst library via a macrocyclic precursor-mediated approach

YX Zhang, S Zhang, H Huang, X Liu, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts containing diatomic sites are often hypothesized to have distinctive
reactivity due to synergistic effects, but there are limited approaches that enable the …

Electrocatalysts for Zinc–Air Batteries Featuring Single Molybdenum Atoms in a Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Framework

J Balamurugan, PM Austeria, JB Kim… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bifunctional catalysts can facilitate two different electrochemical reactions with conflicting
characteristics. Here, a highly reversible bifunctional electrocatalyst for rechargeable zinc …

Deconvoluting the XPS spectra for nitrogen-doped chars: An analysis from first principles

M Ayiania, M Smith, AJR Hensley, L Scudiero… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantifying the content of surface nitrogen and oxygen containing functional groups in
amorphous nitrogen doped carbons via deconvolution of C 1s x-ray photoelectron (XPS) …

Molecular design of single‐atom catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

C Wan, X Duan, Y Huang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fuel cells are highly attractive for direct chemical‐to‐electrical energy conversion and
represent the ultimate mobile power supply solution. However, presently, fuel cells are …

Atomically dispersed nickel–nitrogen–sulfur species anchored on porous carbon nanosheets for efficient water oxidation

Y Hou, M Qiu, MG Kim, P Liu, G Nam, T Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Developing low-cost electrocatalysts to replace precious Ir-based materials is key for oxygen
evolution reaction (OER). Here, we report atomically dispersed nickel coordinated with …

Electrocatalysis of single-atom sites: impacts of atomic coordination

B Lu, Q Liu, S Chen - Acs Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single metal atoms embedded within select supporting matrices have shown great potential
in the development of high-efficiency, low-cost electrocatalysts because of maximal atom …

Suppression of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Electrochemical N2 Reduction Using Single-Atom Catalysts: A Computational Guideline

C Choi, S Back, NY Kim, J Lim, YH Kim, Y Jung - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
We studied electrochemical nitrogen reduction reactions (NRR) to ammonia on single atom
catalysts (SACs) anchored on defective graphene derivatives by density functional …