The progress and outlook of metal single-atom-site catalysis

X Liang, N Fu, S Yao, Z Li, Y Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Single-atom-site catalysts (SASCs) featuring maximized atom utilization and isolated active
sites have progressed tremendously in recent years as a highly prosperous branch of …

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 …

Functional CeOx nanoglues for robust atomically dispersed catalysts

X Li, XI Pereira-Hernández, Y Chen, J Xu, J Zhao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts make exceptionally efficient use of expensive noble metals and can
bring out unique properties,–. However, applications are usually compromised by limited …

Ensemble effect for single-atom, small cluster and nanoparticle catalysts

Y Guo, M Wang, Q Zhu, D Xiao, D Ma - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
A large family of heterogeneous catalytic reactions require active sites with more than one
metal atom, that is, an ensemble of metal atoms. The ensemble requirement, which refers to …

Sabatier principle of metal-support interaction for design of ultrastable metal nanocatalysts

S Hu, WX Li - Science, 2021 - science.org
The stability of supported nanocatalysts is crucial to meeting environmental and energy
challenges and necessitates fundamental theory to relieve trial-and-error experimentation …

Fully exposed palladium cluster catalysts enable hydrogen production from nitrogen heterocycles

C Dong, Z Gao, Y Li, M Peng, M Wang, Y Xu, C Li… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The size of supported metal species is known to have a profound influence on their catalytic
activity. However, this structure sensitivity remains ambiguous for metals at the atomic scale …

General synthesis of a diatomic catalyst library via a macrocyclic precursor-mediated approach

YX Zhang, S Zhang, H Huang, X Liu, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysts containing diatomic sites are often hypothesized to have distinctive
reactivity due to synergistic effects, but there are limited approaches that enable the …

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 …

Thermal atomization of platinum nanoparticles into single atoms: An effective strategy for engineering high-performance nanozymes

Y Chen, P Wang, H Hao, J Hong, H Li, S Ji… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although great progress has been made in artificial enzyme engineering, their catalytic
performance is far from satisfactory as alternatives of natural enzymes. Here, we report a …

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 …