Rational design of single‐atom site electrocatalysts: from theoretical understandings to practical applications

Y Wang, D Wang, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically dispersed metal‐based electrocatalysts have attracted increasing attention due to
their nearly 100% atomic utilization and excellent catalytic performance. However, current …

Toward active-site tailoring in heterogeneous catalysis by atomically precise metal nanoclusters with crystallographic structures

R Jin, G Li, S Sharma, Y Li, X Du - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis involves solid-state catalysts, among which metal nanoparticles
occupy an important position. Unfortunately, no two nanoparticles from conventional …

Interface dynamics of Pd–CeO2 single-atom catalysts during CO oxidation

V Muravev, G Spezzati, YQ Su, A Parastaev… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
In recent years, noble metals atomically dispersed on solid oxide supports have become a
frontier of heterogeneous catalysis. In pursuit of an ultimate atom efficiency, the stability of …

Size of cerium dioxide support nanocrystals dictates reactivity of highly dispersed palladium catalysts

V Muravev, A Parastaev, Y van den Bosch, B Ligt… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The catalytic performance of heterogeneous catalysts can be tuned by modulation of the
size and structure of supported transition metals, which are typically regarded as the active …

Colloidal synthesis of metal nanocrystals: from asymmetrical growth to symmetry breaking

QN Nguyen, C Wang, Y Shang, A Janssen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystals offer a unique platform for tailoring the physicochemical properties of solid
materials to enhance their performances in various applications. While most work on …

The effect of coordination environment on the activity and selectivity of single-atom catalysts

Y Zhang, J Yang, R Ge, J Zhang, JM Cairney… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional heterogeneous catalysts with noble metals as active sites only have surface-
active substances involved in the catalytic reactions, which greatly reduces the material …

A Heteroleptic Gold Hydride Nanocluster for Efficient and Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO

ZH Gao, K Wei, T Wu, J Dong, D Jiang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It has been a long-standing challenge to create and identify the active sites of
heterogeneous catalysts, because it is difficult to precisely control the interfacial chemistry at …

Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters

XM Luo, YK Li, XY Dong, SQ Zang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2–3 decades.
This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose …

Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Chemically modified gold/silver superatoms as artificial elements at nanoscale: design principles and synthesis challenges

S Takano, T Tsukuda - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pure and doped gold/silver clusters protected by monolayers of organic ligands have
attracted much interest as novel functional materials owing to their nonbulk-like, size-specific …