Challenges and opportunities in engineering the electronic structure of single-atom catalysts

V Giulimondi, S Mitchell, J Pérez-Ramírez - ACS catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlling the electronic structure of transition-metal single-atom heterogeneous catalysts
(SACs) is crucial to unlocking their full potential. The ability to do this with increasing …

Designing MOF nanoarchitectures for electrochemical water splitting

B Zhang, Y Zheng, T Ma, C Yang, Y Peng… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical water splitting has attracted significant attention as a key pathway for the
development of renewable energy systems. Fabricating efficient electrocatalysts for these …

Understanding the structure-performance relationship of active sites at atomic scale

R Li, D Wang - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Metal-based atomically dispersed catalysts have attracted more attention because of their
excellent catalytic performance and nearly 100% atom utilization. Therefore, it is very …

Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen–carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells

S Liu, C Li, MJ Zachman, Y Zeng, H Yu, B Li, M Wang… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen-coordinated single atom iron sites (FeN4) embedded in carbon (Fe–N–C) are the
most active platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction catalysts for proton-exchange …

High loading of single atomic iron sites in Fe–NC oxygen reduction catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

A Mehmood, M Gong, F Jaouen, A Roy, A Zitolo… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Non-precious iron-based catalysts (Fe–NCs) require high active site density to meet the
performance targets as cathode catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Site …

Insights into the activity of single-atom Fe-NC catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

K Liu, J Fu, Y Lin, T Luo, G Ni, H Li, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-atom Fe-NC catalysts has attracted widespread attentions in the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR). However, the origin of ORR activity on Fe-NC catalysts is still unclear, which …

Iron atom–cluster interactions increase activity and improve durability in Fe–N–C fuel cells

X Wan, Q Liu, J Liu, S Liu, X Liu, L Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Simultaneously increasing the activity and stability of the single-atom active sites of M–N–C
catalysts is critical but remains a great challenge. Here, we report an Fe–N–C catalyst with …

Interfacial assembly of binary atomic metal-Nx sites for high-performance energy devices

Z Jiang, X Liu, XZ Liu, S Huang, Y Liu, ZC Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells and Zn–air batteries based on non-Pt group metal
catalysts typically suffer from sluggish cathodic oxygen reduction. Designing advanced …

Zinc single‐atom‐regulated hard carbons for high‐rate and low‐temperature sodium‐ion batteries

Z Lu, J Wang, W Feng, X Yin, X Feng, S Zhao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbons, as one of the most commercializable anode materials for sodium‐ion
batteries (SIBs), have to deal with the trade‐off between the rate capability and specific …

Single-atom nanozymes catalytically surpassing naturally occurring enzymes as sustained stitching for brain trauma

S Zhang, Y Li, S Sun, L Liu, X Mu, S Liu, M Jiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Regenerable nanozymes with high catalytic stability and sustainability are promising
substitutes for naturally-occurring enzymes but are limited by insufficient and non-selective …