Atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: from synthesis strategies to activity engineering

Quantifying the electrochemical active site density of precious metal-free catalysts in situ in fuel cells

(2022) Rifael Z. Snitkoff-Sol et al.   Nature Catalysis

Atomically Dispersed Fe–Heteroatom (N, S) Bridge Sites Anchored on Carbon Nanosheets for Promoting Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Mengran Wang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Highly Accessible Atomically Dispersed Fe‐N x Sites Electrocatalyst for Proton‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

(2021) Jianing Guo et al.   Advanced Science

Understanding of Neighboring Fe‐N 4 ‐C and Co‐N 4 ‐C Dual Active Centers for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Huanxin Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

A Highly Efficient Fe−N−C Electrocatalyst with Atomically Dispersed FeN 4 Sites for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Xinxin Jin et al.   ChemCatChem

Solid-State Synthesis of Highly Dispersed Nitrogen-Coordinated Single Iron Atom Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

(2021) Fei Xiao et al.   NANO LETTERS

Regulating Fe-spin state by atomically dispersed Mn-N in Fe-N-C catalysts with high oxygen reduction activity

(2021) Gege Yang et al.   Nature Communications

FeNC Electrocatalysts with Densely Accessible FeN 4 Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Yazhou Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Integration of Morphology and Electronic Structure Modulation on Atomic Iron‐Nitrogen‐Carbon Catalysts for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction

(2021) Cuncun Xin et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Constructing Graphitic‐Nitrogen‐Bonded Pentagons in Interlayer‐Expanded Graphene Matrix toward Carbon‐Based Electrocatalysts for Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Shuai Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Enhanced performance of atomically dispersed dual-site Fe-Mn electrocatalysts through cascade reaction mechanism

(2021) Zhe Chen et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Densely accessible Fe-Nx active sites decorated mesoporous-carbon-spheres for oxygen reduction towards high performance aluminum-air flow batteries

(2021) Xiaogang Fu et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Constructing Co–N–C Catalyst via a Double Crosslinking Hydrogel Strategy for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Catalysis in Fuel Cells

(2021) Zhengpei Miao et al.   Small

Dual‐Sites Coordination Engineering of Single Atom Catalysts for Flexible Metal–Air Batteries

(2021) Deshuang Yu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Understanding the inter-site distance effect in single-atom catalysts for oxygen electroreduction

(2021) Zhaoyu Jin et al.   Nature Catalysis

1D/3D Heterogeneous Assembling Body as Trifunctional Electrocatalysts Enabling Zinc–Air Battery and Self‐Powered Overall Water Splitting

(2021) Guizhong Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Atomically Dispersed Co 2 –N 6 and Fe–N 4 Costructures Boost Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Both Alkaline and Acidic Media

(2021) Zhe Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Phosphorus-Driven Electron Delocalization on Edge-Type FeN4 Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction in Acid Medium

(2021) Hengbo Yin et al.   ACS Catalysis

A General Method for Transition Metal Single Atoms Anchored on Honeycomb‐Like Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanosheets

(2020) Xiaoyan Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

Simultaneously Integrating Single Atomic Cobalt Sites and Co 9 S 8 Nanoparticles into Hollow Carbon Nanotubes as Trifunctional Electrocatalysts for Zn–Air Batteries to Drive Water Splitting

(2020) Yizhe Li et al.   Small

Impact of Active Site Density on Oxygen Reduction Reactions Using Monodispersed Fe–N–C Single-Atom Catalysts

(2020) Yulan Han et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Design and Preparation of Fe–N5 Catalytic Sites in Single-Atom Catalysts for Enhancing the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells

(2020) Ye-Min Zhao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Intrinsic Electrocatalytic Activity Regulation of M–N–C Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Chang-Xin Zhao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

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

Robust template-activator cooperated pyrolysis enabling hierarchically porous honeycombed defective carbon as highly-efficient metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for Zn-air batteries

(2020) Xiao Xiao et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Using DMH as a complexing agent for pulse electrodeposition of platinum nanoparticles towards oxygen reduction reaction

(2020) Dan Wang et al.   IONICS

Unveiling the Axial Hydroxyl Ligand on FeN 4 C Electrocatalysts and Its Impact on the pH‐Dependent Oxygen Reduction Activities and Poisoning Kinetics

(2020) Xin Yang et al.   Advanced Science

Hierarchically micro- and meso-porous Fe-N4O-doped carbon as robust electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction

(2020) Xiaoshan Wang et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Secondary-Atom-Doping Enables Robust Fe–N–C Single-Atom Catalysts with Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Xin Luo et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

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

Transition metal and nitrogen co‐doped carbon‐based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: From active site insights to the rational design of precursors and structures

(2020) Dan Wang et al.   ChemSusChem

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

Single-Iron Site Catalysts with Self-Assembled Dual-size Architecture and Hierarchical Porosity for Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

(2020) Xiaolin Zhao et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

A complex-sequestered strategy to fabricate Fe single-atom catalyst for efficient oxygen reduction in a broad pH-range

(2020) Haoqi Yang et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

The dual-nitrogen-source strategy to modulate a bifunctional hybrid Co/Co–N–C catalyst in the reversible air cathode for Zn-air batteries

(2020) Dan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Atom migration-trapping toward single-atom catalysts for energy electrocatalysis

(2020) Peiqun Yin et al.   Materials Today Energy

Boost oxygen reduction reaction performance by tuning the active sites in Fe-N-P-C catalysts

(2020) Yahao Li et al.   Journal of Energy Chemistry

3D star-like atypical hybrid MOF derived single-atom catalyst boosts oxygen reduction catalysis

(2020) Lei Zhou et al.   Journal of Energy Chemistry

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

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

Edge-doping modulation of N, P-codoped porous carbon spheres for high-performance rechargeable Zn-air batteries

(2019) Si Chen et al.   Nano Energy

Atomic Fe-Doped MOF-Derived Carbon Polyhedrons with High Active-Center Density and Ultra-High Performance toward PEM Fuel Cells

(2019) Yijie Deng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe–N4 Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells

(2019) Zhengkun Yang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Cascade anchoring strategy for general mass production of high-loading single-atomic metal-nitrogen catalysts

(2019) Lu Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Versatile Strategy for Tuning ORR Activity of a Single Fe-N4 Site by Controlling Electron Withdrawing/Donating Properties of Carbon Plane

(2019) Yeongdong Mun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Recent advances in active sites identification and regulation of M-N/C electro-catalysts towards ORR

(2019) Jie Liu et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Densely Populated Isolated Single CoN Site for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis

(2019) Jiabin Wu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction

(2019) Mengjie Chen et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Leaf-like 2D nanosheet as efficient oxygen reduction reaction catalyst for Zn-air battery

(2019) Yong Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

A Cobalt–Iron Double-Atom Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

(2019) Lichen Bai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

2D Electrocatalysts for Converting Earth‐Abundant Simple Molecules into Value‐Added Commodity Chemicals: Recent Progress and Perspectives

(2019) Huajie Yin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon with Atomically Dispersed FeN4 for Ultra-efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in PEMFC

(2019) Shuangyin Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Atomically dispersed manganese-based catalysts for efficient catalysis of oxygen reduction reaction

(2019) Lu Bai et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Insights into the role of active site density in the fuel cell performance of Co-N-C catalysts

(2019) Linyun Chen et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Cage-confinement pyrolysis route to size-controlled molybdenum-based oxygen electrode catalysts: From isolated atoms to clusters and nanoparticles

(2019) Zongkui Kou et al.   Nano Energy

Boosting the activity of Fe-Nx moieties in Fe-N-C electrocatalysts via phosphorus doping for oxygen reduction reaction

(2019) Jin-Cheng Li et al.   Science China-Materials

Boosting defective carbon by anchoring well-defined atomically dispersed metal-N4 sites for ORR, OER, and Zn-air batteries

(2019) Wenzheng Cheng et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Evolution Pathway from Iron Compounds to Fe1(II)–N4 Sites through Gas-Phase Iron during Pyrolysis

(2019) Jingkun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Engineering Local Coordination Environments of Atomically Dispersed and Heteroatom‐Coordinated Single Metal Site Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy‐Conversion

(2019) Yuanzhi Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Single-Site Active Iron-Based Bifunctional Oxygen Catalyst for a Compressible and Rechargeable Zinc–Air Battery

(2018) Longtao Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Atomically Dispersed Transition Metals on Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Loading for Selective Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction

(2018) Yi Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ordered Porous N-Doping Carbon Matrix with Atomically Dispersed Co Sites as an Efficient Catalyst for Dehydrogenation/Transfer Hydrogenation of N-Heterocycles

(2018) Yadong Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

SiO2-protected shell mediated templating synthesis of Fe–N-doped carbon nanofibers and their enhanced oxygen reduction reaction performance

(2018) Bi-Cheng Hu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

In situ trapped high-density single metal atoms within graphene: Iron-containing hybrids as representatives for efficient oxygen reduction

(2018) Daobin Liu et al.   Nano Research

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

Atomically Dispersed Fe-N x /C Electrocatalyst Boosts Oxygen Catalysis via a New Metal-Organic Polymer Supramolecule Strategy

(2018) Zhengpei Miao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Construction of a hierarchical 3D Co/N-carbon electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction and overall water splitting

(2018) Zengxia Pei et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

(2018) Liu Yang et al.   Nano Energy

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

Highly Dispersed Cu-NX Moieties Embedded in Graphene: A Promising Electrocatalyst towards Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2018) Xiangyu Lu et al.   ChemElectroChem

In-situ Thermal atomization to Transfer Supported Metal Nanoparticles to Surface Enriched Ni Single atom catalyst

(2018) Jian Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

Bio-inspired FeN5 moieties anchored on a three-dimensional graphene aerogel to improve oxygen reduction catalytic performance

(2018) Jianshe Huang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Metal-Organic-Framework-Derived Hollow N-Doped Porous Carbon with Ultrahigh Concentrations of Single Zn Atoms for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Conversion

(2018) Hai-Long Jiang 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

Bimetallic−organic framework-derived hierarchically porous Co-Zn-N-C as efficient catalyst for acidic oxygen reduction reaction

(2018) Zihan Meng et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

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

Discriminating Catalytically Active FeNx Species of Atomically Dispersed Fe–N–C Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of the C–H Bond

(2017) Wengang Liu 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

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

(2017) Hoon T. Chung et al.   SCIENCE

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

Single-Atom Catalysts: Emerging Multifunctional Materials in Heterogeneous Catalysis

(2017) Huabin Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Metal–organic framework-induced construction of actiniae-like carbon nanotube assembly as advanced multifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting and Zn-air batteries

(2017) Shuguang Wang et al.   Nano Energy

Atomically FeN 2 moieties dispersed on mesoporous carbon: A new atomic catalyst for efficient oxygen reduction catalysis

(2017) Hangjia Shen et al.   Nano Energy

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

Two-dimensional iron-porphyrin sheet as a promising catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction: a computational study

(2017) Gan Luo et al.   Science Bulletin

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

(2016) Pengzuo Chen 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

A General Approach to Preferential Formation of Active Fe–Nx Sites in Fe–N/C Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2016) Young Jin Sa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of nanoporous structured iron carbide/Fe–N–carbon composites for efficient oxygen reduction reaction in Zn–air batteries

(2016) Zheng Kun Yang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Activity of N-coordinated multi-metal-atom active site structures for Pt-free oxygen reduction reaction catalysis: Role of *OH ligands

(2015) Edward F. Holby et al.   Scientific Reports

Covalent Grafting of Carbon Nanotubes with a Biomimetic Heme Model Compound To Enhance Oxygen Reduction Reactions

(2014) Ping-Jie Wei 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

Promotion of oxygen reduction by a bio-inspired tethered iron phthalocyanine carbon nanotube-based catalyst

(2013) Ruiguo Cao et al.   Nature Communications

Iron-based cathode catalyst with enhanced power density in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

(2011) Eric Proietti et al.   Nature Communications