Rational design of better hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts for water splitting: a review

F Liu, C Shi, X Guo, Z He, L Pan, ZF Huang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The excessive dependence on fossil fuels contributes to the majority of CO2 emissions,
influencing on the climate change. One promising alternative to fossil fuels is green …

Theoretical insights into single-atom catalysts

L Li, X Chang, X Lin, ZJ Zhao, J Gong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with atomically dispersed metals have emerged as a new
class of heterogeneous catalysts and have attracted considerable interest because they …

Electronic metal–support interaction modulates single-atom platinum catalysis for hydrogen evolution reaction

Y Shi, ZR Ma, YY Xiao, YC Yin, WM Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tuning metal–support interaction has been considered as an effective approach to modulate
the electronic structure and catalytic activity of supported metal catalysts. At the atomic level …

Single atom electrocatalysts supported on graphene or graphene-like carbons

H Fei, J Dong, D Chen, T Hu, X Duan, I Shakir… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalysis plays an essential role in diverse electrochemical energy conversion
processes that are vital for improving energy utilization efficiency and mitigating the …

Design of local atomic environments in single‐atom electrocatalysts for renewable energy conversions

T Sun, S Mitchell, J Li, P Lyu, X Wu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom electrocatalysts (SAECs) have recently attracted tremendous research interest
due to their often remarkable catalytic responses, unmatched by conventional catalysts. The …

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 …

Engineering local coordination environments of atomically dispersed and heteroatom‐coordinated single metal site electrocatalysts for clean energy‐conversion

Y Zhu, J Sokolowski, X Song, Y He… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon‐based heteroatom‐coordinated single‐atom catalysts (SACs) are promising
candidates for energy‐related electrocatalysts because of their low‐cost, tunable catalytic …

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 …

Designing atomic active centers for hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts

Y Lei, Y Wang, Y Liu, C Song, Q Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of hydrogen from water using renewable electrical energy is a topic of current
interest. Pt/C exhibits the highest catalytic activity for the H2 evolution reaction (HER), but …

Single-atom catalysts: advances and challenges in metal-support interactions for enhanced electrocatalysis

Y Mu, T Wang, J Zhang, C Meng, Y Zhang… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Single-atom catalysts (SACs), which contain a single metal atom supported on a
well-confined substrate, are among the most promising heterogeneous catalysts owing to …