Frontiers in Single-Atom Alloy Catalysis
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 626
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 2D nanomaterials; electrocatalytic/photocatalytic energy conversion; single-atom catalysts; p-block catalysts
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Interests: 2D nanomaterials; visible–light photocatalysis; electrocatalytic energy conversion
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Interests: 2D layered materials; metal–organic frameworks; heterogeneous catalysis; electrocatalytic energy conversion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heterogeneous single-site catalysts comprising isolated single atoms immobilized on various supports exhibit promising potential as superior catalysts for energy conversion applications due to their extremely high atom utilization efficiency, unique atomic structure, and exceptional catalytic selectivity. Emerging as a new class of single-site catalysts, single-atom alloy catalysts play an increasingly significant role in industrially important catalytic reactions, such as electro-, photo-, and thermal catalysis, which can be constructed by the introduction of reactive single metal atoms anchored onto more inert host metals. Understanding the atomic structures, electronic properties, and active site stability and evolution is key to the rational design of efficient and robust single-atom alloy catalysts, but remains challenging.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in emerging single-atom alloy catalysts for a wide variety of catalytic applications, as well as experimental and computational studies on the bonding in single-atom alloy catalysts and the relationship between the isolated metal atoms and their catalytic performance. Papers related to the industrial scale-up of single-atom alloys are of interest as well. We welcome the submission of rapid communications, original research articles, and review articles.
Dr. Liang Wang
Prof. Dr. Li Wang
Prof. Dr. Dongdong Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- single-site catalysis
- single-atom alloys
- photocatalysis
- electrocatalysis
- thermal catalysis
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