Single Atom Excels as the Smallest Functional Material

Water splitting: Taking cobalt in isolation

(2016) Aiqin Wang et al.   Nature Energy

Single-Atom Catalyst of Platinum Supported on Titanium Nitride for Selective Electrochemical Reactions

(2015) Sungeun Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Power of Single-Atom Catalysis

(2015) Suxia Liang et al.   ChemCatChem

Electron Microscopy of Solid Catalysts—Transforming from a Challenge to a Toolbox

(2015) Dang Sheng Su et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Ultrastable single-atom gold catalysts with strong covalent metal-support interaction (CMSI)

(2015) Botao Qiao et al.   Nano Research

Transmission electron microscopy finds plenty of room on the surface

(2015) Wei Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The importance of being together

(2015) I. E. L. Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of active sites in CO oxidation and water-gas shift over supported Pt catalysts

(2015) K. Ding et al.   SCIENCE

Finding optimal surface sites on heterogeneous catalysts by counting nearest neighbors

(2015) F. Calle-Vallejo et al.   SCIENCE

Single-atom electron energy loss spectroscopy of light elements

(2015) Ryosuke Senga et al.   Nature Communications

Atomic cobalt on nitrogen-doped graphene for hydrogen generation

(2015) Huilong Fei et al.   Nature Communications

Large-Area Synthesis of Continuous and Uniform MoS2Monolayer Films on Graphene

(2014) Kathleen M. McCreary et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Control of Solid Catalysts Down to the Atomic Scale: Where is the Limit?

(2014) Ferdi Schüth   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electronic Metal-Support Interactions in Single-Atom Catalysts

(2014) Pingping Hu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Elemental analysis down to the single atom with electron beams

(2014) Kazu Suenaga   COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE

Visualising reacting single atoms under controlled conditions: Advances in atomic resolution in situ Environmental (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy (E(S)TEM)

(2014) Edward D. Boyes et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE

Single Layer of Polymeric Metal–Phthalocyanine: Promising Substrate to Realize Single Pt Atom Catalyst with Uniform Distribution

(2014) X. F. Chen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Chemical Structure of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene with Single Platinum Atoms and Atomic Clusters as a Platform for the PEMFC Electrode

(2014) Samantha Stambula et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Direct Observation of a Long-Lived Single-Atom Catalyst Chiseling Atomic Structures in Graphene

(2014) Wei Li Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

A quantum gate between a flying optical photon and a single trapped atom

(2014) Andreas Reiserer et al.   NATURE

Exceptional ballistic transport in epitaxial graphene nanoribbons

(2014) Jens Baringhaus et al.   NATURE

Formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching

(2014) Li Zhong et al.   NATURE

Atomic structure and dynamic behaviour of truly one-dimensional ionic chains inside carbon nanotubes

(2014) Ryosuke Senga et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Individual Dopant Atoms inSrTiO3

(2014) Jinwoo Hwang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Inducing Magnetism in Pure Organic Molecules by Single Magnetic Atom Doping

(2014) Violeta Iancu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Reaching the magnetic anisotropy limit of a 3d metal atom

(2014) I. G. Rau et al.   SCIENCE

Direct, Nonoxidative Conversion of Methane to Ethylene, Aromatics, and Hydrogen

(2014) X. Guo et al.   SCIENCE

Exploration of High-Performance Single-Atom Catalysts on Support M1/FeOx for CO Oxidation via Computational Study

(2014) Fengyu Li et al.   ACS Catalysis

Single-Atom Catalysts: A New Frontier in Heterogeneous Catalysis

(2013) Xiao-Feng Yang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Rh1/γ-Al2O3Single-Atom Catalysis of O2Activation and CO Oxidation: Mechanism, Effects of Hydration, Oxidation State, and Cluster Size

(2013) Tushar K. Ghosh et al.   ChemCatChem

Structure Sensitivity in CO Oxidation by a Single Au Atom Supported on Ceria

(2013) Weiyu Song et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

CO Oxidation on Supported Single Pt Atoms: Experimental and ab Initio Density Functional Studies of CO Interaction with Pt Atom on θ-Al2O3(010) Surface

(2013) Melanie Moses-DeBusk et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Remarkable Performance of Ir1/FeOx Single-Atom Catalyst in Water Gas Shift Reaction

(2013) Jian Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Imaging of Pt Single Atoms Adsorbed on TiO2 (110) Surfaces

(2013) Teng-Yuan Chang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Stabilizing the magnetic moment of single holmium atoms by symmetry

(2013) Toshio Miyamachi et al.   NATURE

Quasicrystalline structure formation in a classical crystalline thin-film system

(2013) Stefan Förster et al.   NATURE

Site- and orbital-dependent charge donation and spin manipulation in electron-doped metal phthalocyanines

(2013) Cornelius Krull et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Quantum engineering

(2013) Joaquin Fernández Rossier   NATURE MATERIALS

A current-driven single-atom memory

(2013) C. Schirm et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Switching between ground states of an InAs quantum dot doped with a single Mn atom

(2013) D. Thuberg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Reversible charge storage in a single silicon atom

(2013) Amandine Bellec et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Catalytically active single-atom niobium in graphitic layers

(2013) Xuefeng Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Single-atom Catalysis Using Pt/Graphene Achieved through Atomic Layer Deposition

(2013) Shuhui Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

Programmable Sub-nanometer Sculpting of Graphene with Electron Beams

(2012) Felix Börrnert et al.   ACS Nano

Design of a Highly Active Ir/Fe(OH)xCatalyst: Versatile Application of Pt-Group Metals for the Preferential Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide

(2012) Jian Lin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Single Atom Microscopy

(2012) Wu Zhou et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Single atom imaging and spectroscopy in nanostructured carbon materials

(2012) Kazu Suenaga et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Probing the Bonding and Electronic Structure of Single Atom Dopants in Graphene with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

(2012) Quentin M. Ramasse et al.   NANO LETTERS

Transistors arrive at the atomic limit

(2012) Gabriel P. Lansbergen   Nature Nanotechnology

A single-atom transistor

(2012) Martin Fuechsle et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Detection of photons emitted from single erbium atoms in energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

(2012) Kazu Suenaga et al.   Nature Photonics

The role of titanium nitride supports for single-atom platinum-based catalysts in fuel cell technology

(2012) Ren-Qin Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Direct Determination of the Chemical Bonding of Individual Impurities in Graphene

(2012) Wu Zhou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dislocation-Driven Deformations in Graphene

(2012) J. H. Warner et al.   SCIENCE

Isolated Metal Atom Geometries as a Strategy for Selective Heterogeneous Hydrogenations

(2012) Georgios Kyriakou et al.   SCIENCE

Capturing the signature of single atoms with the tiny probe of a STEM

(2012) C. Colliex et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Atomically Dispersed Supported Metal Catalysts

(2012) Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos et al.   Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Nanosizing Intermetallic Compounds Onto Carbon Nanotubes: Active and Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts

(2011) Lidong Shao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Atomic Structure of a Metal-Supported Vitreous Thin Silica Film

(2011) Leonid Lichtenstein et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Structural Dynamics of Low-Symmetry Au Nanoparticles Stimulated by Electron Irradiation

(2011) Bingsen Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Single-atom catalysis of CO oxidation using Pt1/FeO x

(2011) Botao Qiao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Can a Single Atom Serve as the Active Site in Some Heterogeneous Catalysts?

(2011) John Meurig Thomas et al.   TOPICS IN CATALYSIS

Imaging MoS2 Nanocatalysts with Single-Atom Sensitivity

(2010) Christian Kisielowski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2

(2010) Andrea Splendiani et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct imaging of single metal atoms and clusters in the pores of dealuminated HY zeolite

(2010) Volkan Ortalan et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Atomically ThinMoS2: A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor

(2010) Kin Fai Mak et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Carbon nanotube-clamped metal atomic chain

(2010) D.-M. Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probing Solid Catalysts under Operating Conditions: Electrons or X-rays?

(2009) John Meurig Thomas et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tunable Kondo Effect in a Single Donor Atom

(2009) G. P. Lansbergen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Imaging single atoms using secondary electrons with an aberration-corrected electron microscope

(2009) Y. Zhu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

From graphene constrictions to single carbon chains

(2009) Andrey Chuvilin et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Graphene: Status and Prospects

(2009) A. K. Geim   SCIENCE

Detection of Single Atoms and Buried Defects in Three Dimensions by Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscope with 0.5-Å Information Limit

(2008) C. Kisielowski et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Gate-induced quantum-confinement transition of a single dopant atom in a silicon FinFET

(2008) G. P. Lansbergen et al.   Nature Physics