Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis

Studying, Promoting, Exploiting, and Predicting Catalyst Dynamics: the Next Frontier in Heterogeneous Catalysis

(2023) Steven Chavez et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Atomically Dispersed Co2MnN8 Triatomic Sites Anchored in N‐Doped Carbon Enabling Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2023) Xiaoxiao Yan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Triggering Pt Active Sites in Basal Plane of Van der Waals PtTe2 Materials by Amorphization Engineering for Hydrogen Evolution

(2023) Wen Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalyst for boosting water splitting

(2023) Tao Sun et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Geminal-atom catalysis for cross-coupling

(2023) Xiao Hai et al.   NATURE

Precisely Constructing Orbital Coupling-Modulated Dual-Atom Fe Pair Sites for Synergistic CO2 Electroreduction

(2022) Ying Wang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Atomically Precise Single Metal Oxide Cluster Catalyst with Oxygen‐Controlled Activity

(2022) Xinzhe Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Atomistic Understanding of Two-dimensional Electrocatalysts from First Principles

(2022) Xunhua Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Automated Image Analysis for Single-Atom Detection in Catalytic Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2022) Sharon Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quasi-Covalently Coupled Ni–Cu Atomic Pair for Synergistic Electroreduction of CO2

(2022) Jianbing Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Controlled Formation of Dimers and Spatially Isolated Atoms in Bimetallic Au‐Ru Catalysts via Carbon‐Host Functionalization

(2022) Vera Giulimondi et al.   Small

Dual‐Atom Nickel Moieties of Ni(II) 2 N 4 (µ 2 ‐N) 2 Anchored on Alfalfa‐Derived Developed Porous N‐Doped Carbon for High‐Performance Li–S Battery

(2022) Tengfei Zhang et al.   Small

Catalytically Active Atomically Thin Cuprate with Periodic Cu Single Sites

(2022) Huimin Yang et al.   National Science Review

Interpretable machine learning for knowledge generation in heterogeneous catalysis

(2022) Jacques A. Esterhuizen et al.   Nature Catalysis

Computational Prediction of Graphdiyne-Supported Three-Atom Single-Cluster Catalysts

(2022) Jin-Cheng Liu et al.   CCS Chemistry

Tuning the Site-to-Site Interaction in Ru–M (M = Co, Fe, Ni) Diatomic Electrocatalysts to Climb up the Volcano Plot of Oxygen Electroreduction

(2022) Mengjie Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Asymmetric Coupled Dual‐Atom Sites for Selective Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Acetic Acid

(2022) Guangri Jia et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Atomically Dispersed Indium‐Copper Dual‐Metal Active Sites Promoting C–C Coupling for CO2 Photoreduction to Ethanol

(2022) Hainan Shi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Adsorption Energy in Oxygen Electrocatalysis

(2022) Junming Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Metal Affinity of Support Dictates Sintering of Gold Catalysts

(2022) Jin-Cheng Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ensemble effect for single-atom, small cluster and nanoparticle catalysts

(2022) Yu Guo et al.   Nature Catalysis

Photocatalytic CO 2 ‐to‐Syngas Evolution with Molecular Catalyst Metal‐organic Framework Nanozymes

(2022) Philip M. Stanley et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Graphite-Supported Ptn Cluster Electrocatalysts: Major Change of Active Sites as a Function of the Applied Potential

(2022) Julen Munarriz et al.   ACS Catalysis

Atomistic Insights into the Oxidation of Flat and Stepped Platinum Surfaces Using Large-Scale Machine Learning Potential-Based Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo

(2022) Jiayan Xu et al.   ACS Catalysis

Categorization of Quantum Dots, Clusters, Nanoclusters, and Nanodots

(2021) Hyung Jun Park et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

Co and Pt Dual‐Single‐Atoms with Oxygen‐Coordinated Co–O–Pt Dimer Sites for Ultrahigh Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Efficiency

(2021) Cong Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Supported Pd 2 Dual‐Atom Site Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction

(2021) Ningqiang Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ordered clustering of single atomic Te vacancies in atomically thin PtTe2 promotes hydrogen evolution catalysis

(2021) Xinzhe Li et al.   Nature Communications

Heterogeneous Two-Atom Single-Cluster Catalysts for the Nitrogen Electroreduction Reaction

(2021) Jun-Chi Chen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Atomically Precise Dinuclear Site Active toward Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

(2021) Tao Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synergizing metal–support interactions and spatial confinement boosts dynamics of atomic nickel for hydrogenations

(2021) Jian Gu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dual-atom Pt heterogeneous catalyst with excellent catalytic performances for the selective hydrogenation and epoxidation

(2021) Shubo Tian et al.   Nature Communications

Atomically precise control in the design of low-nuclearity supported metal catalysts

(2021) Sharon Mitchell et al.   Nature Reviews 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

Singly Dispersed Bimetallic Sites as Stable and Efficient Single-Cluster Catalysts for Activating N2 and CO2

(2021) Ning Liu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Moving beyond bimetallic-alloy to single-atom dimer atomic-interface for all-pH hydrogen evolution

(2021) Ashwani Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Atomistic and electronic structure of metal clusters supported on transition metal carbides: implications for catalysis

(2021) Hector Prats et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Rationalization on high-loading iron and cobalt dual metal single atoms and mechanistic insight into the oxygen reduction reaction

(2021) Min Jiang et al.   Nano Energy

Revealing of Active Sites and Catalytic Mechanism in N-Coordinated Fe, Ni Dual-Doped Carbon with Superior Acidic Oxygen Reduction than Single-Atom Catalyst

(2020) Yaodan Zhou et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Constructing High-Loading Single-Atom/Cluster Catalysts via an Electrochemical Potential Window Strategy

(2020) Jin-Cheng Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanotuning via Local Work Function Control: Ethylene Hydrogenation on Supported Pt Nanoclusters

(2020) Marian D. Rötzer et al.   ACS Catalysis

N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Single-Site Catalyst for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation

(2020) Jing Wang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Unravelling the Role of Fe–Mn Binary Active Sites Electrocatalyst for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries

(2020) Subhajit Sarkar et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Harnessing the interplay of Fe–Ni atom pairs embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis

(2020) Xiaofeng Zhu et al.   Nano Energy

Fabricating Dual‐Atom Iron Catalysts for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Heteroatom Modulator Approach

(2020) Yong‐Sheng Wei et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

O-coordinated W-Mo dual-atom catalyst for pH-universal electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

(2020) Yang Yang et al.   Science Advances

Confined Fe–Cu Clusters as Sub‐Nanometer Reactors for Efficiently Regulating the Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Xiaowei Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Modulating single‐atom Pd sites with Cu for enhanced ambient ammonia electrosynthesis

(2020) Lili Han et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Using nature’s blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals

(2020) R. Morris Bullock et al.   SCIENCE

Atomically-precise dopant-controlled single cluster catalysis for electrochemical nitrogen reduction

(2020) Chuanhao Yao et al.   Nature Communications

Immobilized trimeric metal clusters: A family of the smallest catalysts for selective CO2 reduction toward multi-carbon products

(2020) Wei Pei et al.   Nano Energy

Confining isolated atoms and clusters in crystalline porous materials for catalysis

(2020) Lichen Liu et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Microenvironment modulation of single-atom catalysts and their roles in electrochemical energy conversion

(2020) Xuning Li et al.   Science Advances

Nanoscale engineering of catalytic materials for sustainable technologies

(2020) Sharon Mitchell et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Synthetic strategies of supported atomic clusters for heterogeneous catalysis

(2020) Hongpan Rong et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Copper atom-pair catalyst anchored on alloy nanowires for selective and efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2

(2019) Jiqing Jiao et al.   Nature Chemistry

Distinguished Zn,Co-Nx-C-Sy Active Sites Confined in Dentric Carbon for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Flexible Zn-Air Batteries

(2019) Yufeng Zhao et al.   Nano Energy

Platinum-trimer decorated cobalt-palladium core-shell nanocatalyst with promising performance for oxygen reduction reaction

(2019) Sheng Dai et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2019) Wenhao Ren et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Atomically Dispersed Ruthenium Species Inside Metal-Organic Frameworks: Combining the High Activity of Atomic Sites and the Molecular Sieving Effect of MOFs

(2019) Shufang Ji et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Atom-by-Atom Resolution of Structure-Function Relations over Low-Nuclearity Metal Catalysts

(2019) Evgeniya Vorobyeva et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Atomically Precise Noble Metal Nanoclusters as Efficient Catalysts: A Bridge between Structure and Properties

(2019) Yuanxin Du et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Heterogeneous Single-Cluster Catalysts for Selective Semihydrogenation of Acetylene with Graphdiyne-Supported Triatomic Clusters

(2019) Deng-Hui Xing et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Insight into the design of defect electrocatalysts: From electronic structure to adsorption energy

(2019) Chao Xie et al.   Materials Today

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

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

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

(2019) Wei Ye et al.   Chem

Atomically Dispersed Binary Co‐Ni Sites in Nitrogen‐Doped Hollow Carbon Nanocubes for Reversible Oxygen Reduction and Evolution

(2019) Xiaopeng Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Surface and Interface Control in Nanoparticle Catalysis

(2019) Chenlu Xie et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

Planar three-coordinate iron sulfide in a synthetic [4Fe-3S] cluster with biomimetic reactivity

(2019) Daniel E. DeRosha et al.   Nature Chemistry

Atomic layer deposited Pt-Ru dual-metal dimers and identifying their active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction

(2019) Lei Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Theory-guided design of catalytic materials using scaling relationships and reactivity descriptors

(2019) Zhi-Jian Zhao et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Strategies to break linear scaling relationships

(2019) Javier Pérez-Ramírez et al.   Nature Catalysis

Computational Design of Clusters for Catalysis

(2018) Elisa Jimenez-Izal et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Metal Catalysts for Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Single Atoms to Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles

(2018) Lichen Liu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Water Oxidation Catalysis via Size-Selected Iridium Clusters

(2018) Avik Halder et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Synergetic interaction between neighbouring platinum monomers in CO2 hydrogenation

(2018) Hongliang Li et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Stable iridium dinuclear heterogeneous catalysts supported on metal-oxide substrate for solar water oxidation

(2018) Yanyan Zhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heterogeneous Fe3 single-cluster catalyst for ammonia synthesis via an associative mechanism

(2018) Jin-Cheng Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Carbon nitride supported Fe2 cluster catalysts with superior performance for alkene epoxidation

(2018) Shubo Tian et al.   Nature Communications

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

Copper Dimer Supported on a C2N Layer as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction Reaction: A Computational Study

(2018) Jia Zhao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Single Cobalt Atoms Anchored on Porous N-Doped Graphene with Dual Reaction Sites for Efficient Fenton-like Catalysis

(2018) Xuning Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single-atom catalyst: a rising star for green synthesis of fine chemicals

(2018) Leilei Zhang et al.   National Science Review

Copper Cluster Size Effect in Methanol Synthesis from CO2

(2017) Bing Yang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Surface Single-Cluster Catalyst for N2-to-NH3 Thermal Conversion

(2017) Xue-Lu Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Confined Pyrolysis within Metal–Organic Frameworks To Form Uniform Ru3 Clusters for Efficient Oxidation of Alcohols

(2017) Shufang Ji 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

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

(2017) Jin-Cheng Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The MOF-driven synthesis of supported palladium clusters with catalytic activity for carbene-mediated chemistry

(2017) Francisco R. Fortea-Pérez et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Methanogenic heterodisulfide reductase (HdrABC-MvhAGD) uses two noncubane [4Fe-4S] clusters for reduction

(2017) Tristan Wagner et al.   SCIENCE

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

(2017) Zhi Wei Seh et al.   SCIENCE

Platinum clusters with precise numbers of atoms for preparative-scale catalysis

(2017) Takane Imaoka et al.   Nature Communications

Bottom-up precise synthesis of stable platinum dimers on graphene

(2017) Huan Yan et al.   Nature Communications

Ethylene Dehydrogenation on Pt4,7,8 Clusters on Al2O3: Strong Cluster Size Dependence Linked to Preferred Catalyst Morphologies

(2017) Eric T. Baxter et al.   ACS Catalysis

Single-Atom to Single-Atom Grafting of Pt1 onto FeN4 Center: Pt1 @FeNC Multifunctional Electrocatalyst with Significantly Enhanced Properties

(2017) Xiaojun Zeng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Ligand effects in catalysis by atomically precise gold nanoclusters

(2017) Xian-Kai Wan et al.   Science Advances

Atomically Precise Colloidal Metal Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Opportunities

(2016) Rongchao Jin et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Design of Efficient Catalysts with Double Transition Metal Atoms on C2N Layer

(2016) Xiyu Li et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Reversible Transformation of Pt Nanoparticles into Single Atoms inside High-Silica Chabazite Zeolite

(2016) Manuel Moliner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The methanogenic CO2 reducing-and-fixing enzyme is bifunctional and contains 46 [4Fe-4S] clusters

(2016) T. Wagner et al.   SCIENCE

Chemistry and properties at a sub-nanometer scale

(2016) Bing Ni et al.   Chemical Science

Nanostructured electrocatalysts with tunable activity and selectivity

(2016) Hemma Mistry et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

From the Sabatier principle to a predictive theory of transition-metal heterogeneous catalysis

(2015) Andrew J. Medford et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Pt–Zn Clusters on Stoichiometric MgO(100) and TiO2(110): Dramatically Different Sintering Behavior

(2015) Jonny Dadras et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol over Size-Selected Cu4 Clusters at Low Pressures

(2015) Cong Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Visualizing reacting single atoms in chemical reactions: Advancing the frontiers of materials research

(2015) Edward D. Boyes et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Catalysis by clusters with precise numbers of atoms

(2015) Eric C. Tyo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

The effect of the morphology of supported subnanometer Pt clusters on the first and key step of CO2 photoreduction

(2015) Chi-Ta Yang et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Dynamic formation of single-atom catalytic active sites on ceria-supported gold nanoparticles

(2015) Yang-Gang Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Catalysis on singly dispersed bimetallic sites

(2015) Shiran Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

CO2 Electroreduction Performance of Transition Metal Dimers Supported on Graphene: A Theoretical Study

(2015) Yawei Li et al.   ACS Catalysis

Catalysis Applications of Size-Selected Cluster Deposition

(2015) Stefan Vajda et al.   ACS Catalysis

Size- and Structure-specificity in Catalysis by Gold Clusters

(2014) Ayako Taketoshi et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Pure and Zn-doped Pt clusters go flat and upright on MgO(100)

(2014) Lu Shen et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Atomically precise cluster catalysis towards quantum controlled catalysts

(2014) Yoshihide Watanabe   SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS

Effect of the size-selective silver clusters on lithium peroxide morphology in lithium–oxygen batteries

(2014) Jun Lu et al.   Nature Communications

Nanoparticles for Catalysis

(2013) Younan Xia et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Size-Dependent Subnanometer Pd Cluster (Pd4, Pd6, and Pd17) Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis

(2013) Gihan Kwon et al.   ACS Nano

Visualisation of single atom dynamics and their role in nanocatalysts under controlled reaction environments

(2013) Pratibha L. Gai et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

The Role of Reducible Oxide–Metal Cluster Charge Transfer in Catalytic Processes: New Insights on the Catalytic Mechanism of CO Oxidation on Au/TiO2 from ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

(2013) Yang-Gang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exceptional oxidation activity with size-controlled supported gold clusters of low atomicity

(2013) Avelino Corma et al.   Nature Chemistry

Carbon monoxide-induced adatom sintering in a Pd–Fe3O4 model catalyst

(2013) Gareth S. Parkinson et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Quantum Sized Gold Nanoclusters with Atomic Precision

(2012) Huifeng Qian et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Electrocatalytic Activity and Stability of Pt clusters on State-of-the-Art Supports: A Review

(2011) Sujan Shrestha et al.   CATALYSIS REVIEWS-SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Size-dependent catalytic activity and geometries of size-selected Pt clusters on TiO2(110) surfaces

(2011) Yoshihide Watanabe et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Increased Silver Activity for Direct Propylene Epoxidation via Subnanometer Size Effects

(2010) Y. Lei et al.   SCIENCE

Atomic Layer Deposition: An Overview

(2009) Steven M. George   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Advances in atomic resolution in situ environmental transmission electron microscopy and 1Å aberration corrected in situ electron microscopy

(2009) Pratibha L. Gai et al.   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

Towards the computational design of solid catalysts

(2009) J. K. Nørskov et al.   Nature Chemistry

Electronic Structure Controls Reactivity of Size-Selected Pd Clusters Adsorbed on TiO2 Surfaces

(2009) W. E. Kaden et al.   SCIENCE