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Highly Active and Stable Single-Atom Cu Catalysts Supported by a Metal–Organic Framework

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Cobalt in Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as Single-Atom Catalyst for High-Sulfur Content Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

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Isolated Diatomic Ni-Fe Metal-Nitrogen Sites for Synergistic Electroreduction of CO₂

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Fabricating Single‐Atom Catalysts from Chelating Metal in Open Frameworks

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Pd Single‐Atom Catalysts on Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene for the Highly Selective Photothermal Hydrogenation of Acetylene to Ethylene

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Building up a Picture of the Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalysts

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Two-Step Carbothermal Welding To Access Atomically Dispersed Pd1 on Three-Dimensional Zirconia Nanonet for Direct Indole Synthesis

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Atomically dispersed Fe3+ sites catalyze efficient CO2 electroreduction to CO

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Single Mo atom realized enhanced CO2 electro-reduction into formate on N-doped graphene

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Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis

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Copper Single Atoms Anchored in Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon as Efficient pH-Universal Catalysts for the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

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Precisely Tuning the Number of Fe Atoms in Clusters on N-Doped Carbon toward Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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A versatile route to fabricate single atom catalysts with high chemoselectivity and regioselectivity in hydrogenation

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High loading single-atom Cu dispersed on graphene for efficient oxygen reduction reaction

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Single-Atom Engineering of Directional Charge Transfer Channels and Active Sites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

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Surface Immobilization of Transition Metal Ions on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Realizing High-Efficient and Selective CO2 Reduction

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Single Tungsten Atoms Supported on MOF-Derived N-Doped Carbon for Robust Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution

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Nitrogen-Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

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Defect Effects on TiO2 Nanosheets: Stabilizing Single Atomic Site Au and Promoting Catalytic Properties

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Fe Isolated Single Atoms on S, N Codoped Carbon by Copolymer Pyrolysis Strategy for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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A Polymer Encapsulation Strategy to Synthesize Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon-Nanosphere-Supported Metal Isolated-Single-Atomic-Site Catalysts

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Engineering the Coordination Environment of Single-Atom Platinum Anchored on Graphdiyne for Optimizing Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

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Regulation of Coordination Number over Single Co Sites: Triggering the Efficient Electroreduction of CO2

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MOF-derived nanohybrids for electrocatalysis and energy storage: current status and perspectives

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Boosting oxygen reduction catalysis with abundant copper single atom active sites

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Design of Single-Atom Co–N5 Catalytic Site: A Robust Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction with Nearly 100% CO Selectivity and Remarkable Stability

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Single-Atom Au/NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalyst: Probing the Origin of Activity for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

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Direct observation of noble metal nanoparticles transforming to thermally stable single atoms

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Unveiling the high-activity origin of single-atom iron catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

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Unveiling Active Sites of CO2 Reduction on Nitrogen-Coordinated and Atomically Dispersed Iron and Cobalt Catalysts

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Tunable and Efficient Tin Modified Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Electrochemical Reduction of Aqueous Carbon Dioxide

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Recent progress in single-atom electrocatalysts: concept, synthesis, and applications in clean energy conversion

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Single-atom cobalt electrocatalysts for foldable solid-state Zn-air battery

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A vicinal effect for promoting catalysis of Pd 1 /TiO 2 : supports of atomically dispersed catalysts play more roles than simply serving as ligands

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Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction

(2018) Hong Bin Yang et al.   Nature Energy

Heterogeneous single-atom catalysis

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Achieving a Record-High Yield Rate of 120.9 μgNH3  mgcat.−1  h−1 for N2 Electrochemical Reduction over Ru Single-Atom Catalysts

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Atomic engineering of high-density isolated Co atoms on graphene with proximal-atom controlled reaction selectivity

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Single Co Atoms Anchored in Porous N-Doped Carbon for Efficient Zinc−Air Battery Cathodes

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Design of active nickel single-atom decorated MoS2 as a pH-universal catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction

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Theoretical Understanding of the Stability of Single-Atom Catalysts

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Atomically Dispersed Molybdenum Catalysts for Efficient Ambient Nitrogen Fixation

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Selective CO2 Reduction Catalyzed by Single Cobalt Sites on Carbon Nitride under Visible-Light Irradiation

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Metal-Free Single Atom Catalyst for N2 Fixation Driven by Visible Light

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Nitrogen Fixation by Ru Single-Atom Electrocatalytic Reduction

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Surface Coordination Chemistry of Metal Nanomaterials

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Single Atomic Iron Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: Particle Size Control and Thermal Activation

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Ionic Exchange of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Access Single Nickel Sites for Efficient Electroreduction of CO2

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Exclusive Ni–N4 Sites Realize Near-Unity CO Selectivity for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

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Hollow N-Doped Carbon Spheres with Isolated Cobalt Single Atomic Sites: Superior Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

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Uncoordinated Amine Groups of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Anchor Single Ru Sites as Chemoselective Catalysts toward the Hydrogenation of Quinoline

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Metal (Hydr)oxides@Polymer Core–Shell Strategy to Metal Single-Atom Materials

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Toward Rational Design of Oxide-Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: Atomic Dispersion of Gold on Ceria

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Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC catalysts

(2017) Lili Lin et al.   NATURE

MoS2 monolayer catalyst doped with isolated Co atoms for the hydrodeoxygenation reaction

(2017) Guoliang Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Activation of surface lattice oxygen in single-atom Pt/CeO2for low-temperature CO oxidation

(2017) Lei Nie et al.   SCIENCE

Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst

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Atomic-layered Au clusters on α-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction

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Thermally stable single atom Pt/m-Al2O3 for selective hydrogenation and CO oxidation

(2017) Zailei Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Single-Atom Catalysts: Emerging Multifunctional Materials in Heterogeneous Catalysis

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Gold atom-decorated CoSe2 nanobelts with engineered active sites for enhanced oxygen evolution

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Recent Progress in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Applications in Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Water Splitting

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Use of Platinum as the Counter Electrode to Study the Activity of Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

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Atomically Dispersed Fe/N-Doped Hierarchical Carbon Architectures Derived from a Metal–Organic Framework Composite for Extremely Efficient Electrocatalysis

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Hydroformylation of Olefins by a Rhodium Single-Atom Catalyst with Activity Comparable to RhCl(PPh3)3

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Atomically Dispersed Iron-Nitrogen Species as Electrocatalysts for Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions

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Single Cobalt Atoms with Precise N-Coordination as Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

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Atomically Dispersed Ru on Ultrathin Pd Nanoribbons

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The surface science of nanocrystals

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Single-atom dispersed Co–N–C catalyst: structure identification and performance for hydrogenative coupling of nitroarenes

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Tuning selectivity of electrochemical reactions by atomically dispersed platinum catalyst

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Atomically isolated nickel species anchored on graphitized carbon for efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis

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Platinum single-atom and cluster catalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction

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Catalysis by Supported Single Metal Atoms

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

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Nanoporous Graphene with Single-Atom Nickel Dopants: An Efficient and Stable Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production

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Triggering the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of the inert two-dimensional MoS2 surface via single-atom metal doping

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Single-Atom Pd1/Graphene Catalyst Achieved by Atomic Layer Deposition: Remarkable Performance in Selective Hydrogenation of 1,3-Butadiene

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Selective hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene on platinum–copper alloys at the single-atom limit

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FeOx-supported platinum single-atom and pseudo-single-atom catalysts for chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes

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Theoretical and Experimental Insights into the Origin of the Catalytic Activity of Subnanometric Gold Clusters: Attempts to Predict Reactivity with Clusters and Nanoparticles of Gold

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

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