Designed Synthesis and Catalytic Mechanisms of Non‐Precious Metal Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

A Δ E  = 0.63 V Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst Enables High‐Rate and Long‐Cycling Zinc–Air Batteries

(2021) Chang‐Xin Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Honeycomb Carbon Nanofibers: A Superhydrophilic O2‐Entrapping Electrocatalyst Enables Ultrahigh Mass Activity for the Two‐Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Kai Dong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction

(2021) Qingran Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Electrocatalysts by Electrodeposition: Recent Advances, Synthesis Methods, and Applications in Energy Conversion

(2021) Manoj B. Kale et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Versatile Approach to Boost Oxygen Reduction of Fe‐N 4 Sites by Controllably Incorporating Sulfur Functionality

(2021) Chunfeng Shao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

MIL‐101‐Derived Mesoporous Carbon Supporting Highly Exposed Fe Single‐Atom Sites as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

(2021) Xiaoying Xie et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Pt Single Atoms Supported on N‐Doped Mesoporous Hollow Carbon Spheres with Enhanced Electrocatalytic H 2 ‐Evolution Activity

(2021) Panyong Kuang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Sub‐second Time‐resolved Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Reveals Dynamic CO Intermediates during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper

(2021) Hongyu An et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Operando Cooperated Catalytic Mechanism of Atomically Dispersed Cu−N 4 and Zn−N 4 for Promoting Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Miaomiao Tong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

In Situ Activation of a Manganese Perovskite Oxygen Reduction Catalyst in Concentrated Alkaline Media

(2021) Yoshitaka Aoki et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single-Atom-Substituted Mo2CTx:Fe-Layered Carbide for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide: Tracking the Evolution of the MXene Phase

(2021) Denis A. Kuznetsov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stepwise pyrolysis treatment as an efficient strategy to enhance the stability performance of Fe-NX/C electrocatalyst towards oxygen reduction reaction and proton exchange membrane fuel cell

(2021) Ximing Qu et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Zinc‐Mediated Template Synthesis of Fe‐N‐C Electrocatalysts with Densely Accessible Fe‐N x Active Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction

(2020) Guangbo Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Edge‐Rich Fe−N 4 Active Sites in Defective Carbon for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis

(2020) Xin Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Understanding the Activity of Co-N4−x C x in Atomic Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis

(2020) Qin Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Boosting Oxygen Reduction of Single Iron Active Sites via Geometric and Electronic Engineering: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dual Coordination

(2020) Kai Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stabilizing Single-Atom Iron Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction via Ceria Confining and Trapping

(2020) Jin-Cheng Li et al.   ACS Catalysis

Single‐Atom Iron Catalysts on Overhang‐Eave Carbon Cages for High‐Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Chun‐Chao Hou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optimal Configuration of N‐Doped Carbon Defects in 2D Turbostratic Carbon Nanomesh for Advanced Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis

(2020) Qingxue Lai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bridge Bonded Oxygen Ligands between Approximated FeN4 Sites Confer the Catalysts with High ORR Performance

(2020) Liyuan Gong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Coordination Tunes Selectivity: Two‐Electron Oxygen Reduction on High‐Loading Molybdenum Single‐Atom Catalysts

(2020) Cheng Tang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ultrahigh-Loading of Ir Single Atoms on NiO Matrix to Dramatically Enhance Oxygen Evolution Reaction

(2020) Qi Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Engineering Local and Global Structures of Single Co Atoms for a Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Xiao Hai et al.   ACS Catalysis

Negative pressure pyrolysis induced highly accessible single sites dispersed on 3D graphene frameworks for enhanced oxygen reduction

(2020) Yuen Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cross‐Linked Polyphosphazene Hollow Nanosphere‐Derived N/P‐Doped Porous Carbon with Single Nonprecious Metal Atoms for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Xuan Wei et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Engineering Isolated Mn–N2C2 Atomic Interface Sites for Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reaction

(2020) Huishan Shang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Engineering of Coordination Environment and Multiscale Structure in Single-Site Copper Catalyst for Superior Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

(2020) Tingting Sun et al.   NANO LETTERS

Engineering unsymmetrically coordinated Cu-S1N3 single atom sites with enhanced oxygen reduction activity

(2020) Huishan Shang et al.   Nature Communications

Single Cobalt Sites Dispersed in Hierarchically Porous Nanofiber Networks for Durable and High‐Power PGM‐Free Cathodes in Fuel Cells

(2020) Yanghua He et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Coexisting Single‐Atomic Fe and Ni Sites on Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon as a Highly Efficient ORR Electrocatalyst

(2020) Zhengju Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Revealing Isolated M−N 3 C 1 Active Sites for Efficient Collaborative Oxygen Reduction Catalysis

(2020) Feng Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Turning on Zn 4s Electrons in a N2‐Zn‐B2 Configuration to Stimulate Remarkable ORR Performance

(2020) Jing Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Construction of Highly Active Metal‐Containing Nanoparticles and FeCo‐N 4 Composite Sites for the Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Shu‐Hu Yin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Atomic Filtration by Graphene Oxide Membranes to Access Atomically Dispersed Single Atom Catalysts

(2020) Xiao Ge et al.   ACS Catalysis

Atomically Dispersed MnN4 Catalysts via Environmentally Benign Aqueous Synthesis for Oxygen Reduction: Mechanistic Understanding of Activity and Stability Improvements

(2020) Mengjie Chen et al.   ACS Catalysis

Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide Driven by the Intrinsic Defects in the Carbon Plane of a Single Fe–N 4 Site

(2020) Wenpeng Ni et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Atomic‐Level Modulation of Electronic Density at Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks: Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Performance

(2020) Yuanjun Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enhancement of Mass Transport for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Using Petal‐Like Porous Fe‐NC Nanosheet

(2020) Chunfeng Shao et al.   Small

Identification of durable and non-durable FeNx sites in Fe–N–C materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

(2020) Jingkun Li et al.   Nature Catalysis

Performance enhancement and degradation mechanism identification of a single-atom Co–N–C catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

(2020) Xiaohong Xie et al.   Nature Catalysis

Zinc assisted epitaxial growth of N-doped CNTs-based zeolitic imidazole frameworks derivative for high efficient oxygen reduction reaction in Zn-air battery

(2020) Xu Liu et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Isolated Zn-Co Atomic Pair for Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction

(2019) Ziyang Lu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ultrahigh-loading Zn Single-atom Catalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in both Acidic and Alkaline Media

(2019) Jia Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Generation of Nanoparticle, Atomic-Cluster, and Single-Atom Cobalt Catalysts from Zeolitic Imidazole Frameworks by Spatial Isolation and Their Use in Zinc-Air Batteries

(2019) Xiaopeng Han et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Trifunctional Self‐Supporting Cobalt‐Embedded Carbon Nanotube Films for ORR, OER, and HER Triggered by Solid Diffusion from Bulk Metal

(2019) Zhengkun Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bottom-Up Construction of Active Sites in a Cu–N4–C Catalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2019) Wei Li et al.   ACS Nano

Ultralow Loading and High-Performing Pt Catalyst for a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Anode Achieved by Atomic Layer Deposition

(2019) Zhongxin Song et al.   ACS Catalysis

Atomically dispersed Fe-N-P-C complex electrocatalysts for superior oxygen reduction

(2019) Yahao Li et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Evaluating the Catalytic Efficiency of Paired, Single-Atom Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2019) Michelle A. Hunter et al.   ACS Catalysis

Secondary-Atom-Assisted Synthesis of Single Iron Atoms Anchored on N-Doped Carbon Nanowires for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2019) Jin-Cheng Li et al.   ACS Catalysis

Efficient Oxygen Reduction Catalysts of Porous Carbon Nanostructures Decorated with Transition Metal Species

(2019) Xiaoxiao Huang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Coordination-controlled single-atom tungsten as a non-3d-metal oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalyst with ultrahigh mass activity

(2019) Zhigang Chen et al.   Nano Energy

Ensemble Effect in Bimetallic Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

(2019) Yuxuan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unpaired 3d Electrons on Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Centres in Coordination Polymers Regulate both Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) Activity and Selectivity for Use in Zinc-Air Batteries

(2019) Yuebin Lian et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN4 Sites for Oxygen Reduction

(2019) Jiazhan Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Climbing the Apex of the ORR Volcano Plot via Binuclear Site Construction: Electronic and Geometric Engineering

(2019) Meiling Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Directly transforming copper (I) oxide bulk into isolated single-atom copper sites catalyst through gas-transport approach

(2019) Zhengkun Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Highly selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide on transition metal single atom coordination

(2019) Kun Jiang et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2019) Guokang Han et al.   Nano Energy

Carbon Nanosheets Containing Discrete Co-Nx-By-C Active Sites for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis and Rechargeable Zn–Air Batteries

(2018) Yingying Guo et al.   ACS Nano

Microwave-Assisted Rapid Synthesis of Graphene-Supported Single Atomic Metals

(2018) Huilong Fei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

O-, N-Atoms-Coordinated Mn Cofactors within a Graphene Framework as Bioinspired Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysts

(2018) Yang Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Template Conversion of Covalent Organic Frameworks into 2D Conducting Nanocarbons for Catalyzing Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2018) Qing Xu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Toward Two-Dimensional π-Conjugated Covalent Organic Radical Frameworks

(2018) Shaofei Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

From Metal-Organic Frameworks to Single-Atom Fe Implanted N-doped Porous Carbons: Efficient Oxygen Reduction in Both Alkaline and Acidic Media

(2018) Long Jiao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Isolated Fe and Co dual active sites on nitrogen-doped carbon for a highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction

(2018) Diyang Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Boosting oxygen reduction catalysis with abundant copper single atom active sites

(2018) Feng Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Electronic structure engineering to boost oxygen reduction activity by controlling the coordination of the central metal

(2018) Yunhu Han et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Microwave-Assisted Regeneration of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Carbon Fragments

(2018) Dewu Lin et al.   Small

ZIF-8 with Ferrocene Encapsulated: A Promising Precursor to Single-Atom Fe Embedded Nitrogen-Doped Carbon as Highly Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Electroreduction

(2018) Jinpeng Wang et al.   Small

Microporous Framework Induced Synthesis of Single-Atom Dispersed Fe-N-C Acidic ORR Catalyst and Its in Situ Reduced Fe-N4 Active Site Identification Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2018) Meiling Xiao et al.   ACS Catalysis

Identification of binuclear Co 2 N 5 active sites for oxygen reduction reaction with more than one magnitude higher activity than single atom CoN 4 site

(2018) Meiling Xiao et al.   Nano Energy

Cobalt-Nitrogen-Doped Helical Carbonaceous Nanotubes as a Class of Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2018) Zuozhong Liang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Coordination of Atomic Co–Pt Coupling Species at Carbon Defects as Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2018) Longzhou Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Edge-Site Engineering of Atomically Dispersed Fe–N4 by Selective C–N Bond Cleavage for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activities

(2018) Rui Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hierarchically Porous M-N-C (M = Co and Fe) Single-Atom Electrocatalysts with Robust MN x Active Moieties Enable Enhanced ORR Performance

(2018) Chengzhou Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Puffing Up Energetic Metal-Organic Frameworks to Large Carbon Networks with Hierarchical Porosity and Atomically Dispersed Metal Sites

(2018) Ruo Zhao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Single-atomic cobalt sites embedded in hierarchically ordered porous nitrogen-doped carbon as a superior bifunctional electrocatalyst

(2018) Tingting Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced oxygen reduction with single-atomic-site iron catalysts for a zinc-air battery and hydrogen-air fuel cell

(2018) Yuanjun Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Asymmetric Volcano Trend in Oxygen Reduction Activity of Pt and Non-Pt Catalysts: In Situ Identification of the Site-Blocking Effect

(2017) Jingkun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2017) Hanguang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2017) Yunhu Han et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Design of N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Sites: A Stable and Active Pt-Free Catalyst for Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2017) Jing Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Halogen substitutions leading to enhanced oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions in metalloporphyrin frameworks

(2017) Sippakorn Wannakao et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Iced photochemical reduction to synthesize atomically dispersed metals by suppressing nanocrystal growth

(2017) Hehe Wei et al.   Nature Communications

Metal–Organic-Framework-Derived Fe-N/C Electrocatalyst with Five-Coordinated Fe-Nx Sites for Advanced Oxygen Reduction in Acid Media

(2017) Qingxue Lai et al.   ACS Catalysis

Surface functionalization of ZIF-8 with ammonium ferric citrate toward high exposure of Fe-N active sites for efficient oxygen and carbon dioxide electroreduction

(2017) Yifan Ye et al.   Nano Energy

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

(2017) Qi-Long Zhu et al.   ACS Energy Letters

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

(2016) Rui Lang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2016) Peiqun Yin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Towards ALD thin film stabilized single-atom Pd1catalysts

(2016) Mar Piernavieja-Hermida et al.   Nanoscale

Atomic-level insights in optimizing reaction paths for hydroformylation reaction over Rh/CoO single-atom catalyst

(2016) Liangbing Wang et al.   Nature Communications

High-performance transition metal-doped Pt3Ni octahedra for oxygen reduction reaction

(2015) X. Huang et al.   SCIENCE

A single iron site confined in a graphene matrix for the catalytic oxidation of benzene at room temperature

(2015) D. Deng et al.   Science Advances

Ionic Liquids as Precursors for Efficient Mesoporous Iron-Nitrogen-Doped Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

(2014) Zelong Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Effect of Transition Metals on the Structure and Performance of the Doped Carbon Catalysts Derived From Polyaniline and Melamine for ORR Application

(2014) Hongliang Peng et al.   ACS Catalysis

Efficient and Durable Au Alloyed Pd Single-Atom Catalyst for the Ullmann Reaction of Aryl Chlorides in Water

(2014) Leilei Zhang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Catalytically active single-atom niobium in graphitic layers

(2013) Xuefeng Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2011) Botao Qiao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries

(2011) Jin Suntivich et al.   Nature Chemistry