Long‐range interactions in diatomic catalysts boosting electrocatalysis

WH Li, J Yang, D Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous presence of two active metal centres in diatomic catalysts (DACs) leads to
the occurrence of specific interactions between active sites. Such interactions, referred to as …

Microenvironment engineering of single/dual‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic application

Y Gao, B Liu, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single/dual‐metal atoms supported on carbon matrix can be modulated by coordination
structure and neighboring active sites. Precisely designing the geometric and electronic …

Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia

S Zhang, J Wu, M Zheng, X Jin, Z Shen, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia offers an efficient approach to reducing
nitrate pollutants and a potential technology for low-temperature and low-pressure ammonia …

Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …

Unraveling oxygen vacancy site mechanism of Rh-doped RuO2 catalyst for long-lasting acidic water oxidation

Y Wang, R Yang, Y Ding, B Zhang, H Li, B Bai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exploring durable electrocatalysts with high activity for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in
acidic media is of paramount importance for H2 production via polymer electrolyte …

Isolated Fe-Co heteronuclear diatomic sites as efficient bifunctional catalysts for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

X Sun, Y Qiu, B Jiang, Z Chen, C Zhao, H Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The slow redox kinetics of polysulfides and the difficulties in decomposition of Li2S during
the charge and discharge processes are two serious obstacles to the practical application of …

Atomically dispersed Ni activates adjacent Ce sites for enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution activity

Z Pei, H Zhang, ZP Wu, XF Lu, D Luan, XW Lou - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Manipulating the intrinsic activity of heterogeneous catalysts at the atomic level is an
effective strategy to improve the electrocatalytic performances but remains challenging …

Atomically dispersed materials: Ideal catalysts in atomic era

T Gan, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Catalysts can accelerate the chemical reaction rate and effectively promote the molecules
transformation, which is of great significance in the research of chemical industry and …

Metal-metal interactions in correlated single-atom catalysts

J Shan, C Ye, Y Jiang, M Jaroniec, Y Zheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) include a promising family of electrocatalysts with unique
geometric structures. Beyond conventional ones with fully isolated metal sites, an emerging …

A pyrolysis-free Ni/Fe bimetallic electrocatalyst for overall water splitting

Y Zang, DQ Lu, K Wang, B Li, P Peng, YQ Lan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Catalysts capable of electrochemical overall water splitting in acidic, neutral, and alkaline
solution are important materials. This work develops bifunctional catalysts with single atom …