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 …

Review of carbon support coordination environments for single metal atom electrocatalysts (SACS)

W Song, C Xiao, J Ding, Z Huang, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This topical review focuses on the distinct role of carbon support coordination environment
of single‐atom catalysts (SACs) for electrocatalysis. The article begins with an overview of …

High Durability of Fe–N–C Single‐Atom Catalysts with Carbon Vacancies toward the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media

H Tian, A Song, P Zhang, K Sun, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted extensive interest to catalyze the oxygen
reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells and metal–air batteries. However, the development of …

Construction of Co4 Atomic Clusters to Enable Fe−N4 Motifs with Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction Performance

A Han, W Sun, X Wan, D Cai, X Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fe− N− C catalysts with single‐atom Fe− N4 configurations are highly needed owing to the
high activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, the limited intrinsic activity and …

Tuning the thermal activation atmosphere breaks the activity–stability trade-off of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts

Y Zeng, C Li, B Li, J Liang, MJ Zachman, DA Cullen… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Fe–N–C catalysts are the most promising platinum group metal-free oxygen-reduction
catalysts, but they suffer from a low density of active metal sites and the so-called activity …

Regulating catalytic properties and thermal stability of Pt and PtCo intermetallic fuel-cell catalysts via strong coupling effects between single-metal site-rich carbon and …

Y Zeng, J Liang, C Li, Z Qiao, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Developing low platinum-group-metal (PGM) catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
(ORR) in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) …

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 …

Hierarchically Porous Carbons with Highly Curved Surfaces for Hosting Single Metal FeN4 Sites as Outstanding Oxygen Reduction Catalysts

G Chen, R Lu, C Li, J Yu, X Li, L Ni, Q Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Iron–nitrogen–carbon (Fe N C) materials have emerged as a promising alternative to
platinum‐group metals for catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton …

[HTML][HTML] Synergy of dual-atom catalysts deviated from the scaling relationship for oxygen evolution reaction

C Fang, J Zhou, L Zhang, W Wan, Y Ding… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dual-atom catalysts, particularly those with heteronuclear active sites, have the potential to
outperform the well-established single-atom catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, but the …

What is the rate-limiting step of oxygen reduction reaction on Fe–N–C catalysts?

S Yu, Z Levell, Z Jiang, X Zhao… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is essential to various renewable energy technologies. An
important catalyst for ORR is single iron atoms embedded in nitrogen-doped graphene (Fe …