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 …

Single-atom alloy catalysis

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-atom alloys (SAAs) play an increasingly significant role in the field of single-site
catalysis and are typically composed of catalytically active elements atomically dispersed in …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogen spillover in complex oxide multifunctional sites improves acidic hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis

J Dai, Y Zhu, Y Chen, X Wen, M Long, X Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Improving the catalytic efficiency of platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction is valuable
for water splitting technologies. Hydrogen spillover has emerged as a new strategy in …

Single‐atom catalysts for hydrogen generation: rational design, recent advances, and perspectives

C Zhang, H Wang, H Yu, K Yi, W Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen is widely believed to be a promising fuel to solve the global energy crisis and
environmental issues. The catalytic system represented by metal‐supported catalysts is an …

Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts

MT Greiner, TE Jones, S Beeg, L Zwiener… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Alloying provides a means by which to tune a metal catalyst's electronic structure and thus
tailor its performance; however, mean-field behaviour in metals imposes limits. To access …

Laser-assisted high-performance PtRu alloy for pH-universal hydrogen evolution

B Pang, X Liu, T Liu, T Chen, X Shen… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Elucidating the interaction between different atomic species of bimetallic nanoparticles
under reaction conditions is the key to the design of efficient catalysts. Here, we report a …

Single-atom alloys as a reductionist approach to the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts

G Giannakakis… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Heterogeneous catalysts are workhorses in the industrial production of most
commodity and specialty chemicals, and have widespread energy and environmental …

Performance of Cu-alloyed Pd single-atom catalyst for semihydrogenation of acetylene under simulated front-end conditions

GX Pei, XY Liu, X Yang, L Zhang, A Wang, L Li… - Acs …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene is an industrially important reaction. Pd-
based catalysts have been proved to be efficient for the acetylene conversion, while …

Lonely atoms with special gifts: breaking linear scaling relationships in heterogeneous catalysis with single-atom alloys

MT Darby, M Stamatakis, A Michaelides… - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We discuss a simple yet effective strategy for escaping traditional linear scaling relations in
heterogeneous catalysis with highly dilute bimetallic alloys known as single-atom alloys …

Advances in the design of nanostructured catalysts for selective hydrogenation

G Vilé, D Albani, N Almora‐Barrios, N López… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Selective hydrogenations lay at the heart of many industrial processes. The archetypal
catalysts for this class of reactions are generally prepared by 'metal poisoning'strategies: the …