Single‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic applications

Q Zhang, J Guan - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recent advances in electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen
evolution reaction (OER), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), hydrogen oxidation reaction …

State of the art and prospects in metal–organic framework (MOF)-based and MOF-derived nanocatalysis

Q Wang, D Astruc - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles, also called porous coordination polymers,
are a major part of nanomaterials science, and their role in catalysis is becoming central …

Surface strategies for catalytic CO 2 reduction: from two-dimensional materials to nanoclusters to single atoms

L Wang, W Chen, D Zhang, Y Du, R Amal… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Redox catalysis, including photocatalysis and (photo) electrocatalysis, may alleviate global
warming and energy crises by removing excess CO2 from the atmosphere and converting it …

Introduction: nanoparticles in catalysis

D Astruc - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Decreasing the nanocatalyst size down to single atom 20− 22 has attracted much recent
attention, because in this case no atoms located at the interior of the nanoparticle are lost …

Atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters as efficient catalysts: a bridge between structure and properties

Y Du, H Sheng, D Astruc, M Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

Characterization techniques for nanoparticles: comparison and complementarity upon studying nanoparticle properties

S Mourdikoudis, RM Pallares, NTK Thanh - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructures have attracted huge interest as a rapidly growing class of materials for many
applications. Several techniques have been used to characterize the size, crystal structure …

Review of supported metal nanoparticles: synthesis methodologies, advantages and application as catalysts

MJ Ndolomingo, N Bingwa, R Meijboom - Journal of Materials Science, 2020 - Springer
Supported metal nanoparticles, M-NPs, are of great scientific and economic interest as they
encompass application in chemical manufacturing, oil refining and environmental catalysis …

Applications of plasmon-enhanced nanocatalysis to organic transformations

A Gelle, T Jin, L de la Garza, GD Price… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is a physical phenomenon exhibited by
nanoparticles of metals including coinage metals, alkali metals, aluminum, and some …

Single‐atom materials: small structures determine macroproperties

J Yang, W Li, D Wang, Y Li - Small Structures, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom materials (SAMs) have been widely investigated during the past years,
providing many high‐performance materials applied in catalyst, battery, solar cell, and so …

General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities

H Fei, J Dong, Y Feng, CS Allen, C Wan, B Volosskiy… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have recently attracted broad research interest as they
combine the merits of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. Rational design …