Integrating single-cobalt-site and electric field of boron nitride in dechlorination electrocatalysts by bioinspired design

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 303 - 10
• Main Authors: Min, Yuan, Zhou, Xiao, Chen, Jie-Jie, Chen, Wenxing, Zhou, Fangyao, Wang, Zhiyuan, Yang, Jia, Xiong, Can, Wang, Ying, Li, Fengting, Yu, Han-Qing, Wu, Yuen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 12.01.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 147/143; 639/638/161/886; 639/638/77/887; 704/172/169/896; Biomimetics; Boron; Boron nitride; Carbon; Catalysts; Chloramphenicol; Chloromycetin; Cobalt; Dechlorination; Density functional theory; Electric fields; Electrocatalysts; Environmental cleanup; Enzymes; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydrogen evolution reactions; Microenvironments; multidisciplinary; Organochlorine compounds; Palladium; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Selectivity; Silver chloride; Stability

The construction of enzyme-inspired artificial catalysts with enzyme-like active sites and microenvironment remains a great challenge. Herein, we report a single-atomic-site Co catalyst supported by carbon doped boron nitride (BCN) with locally polarized B–N bonds (Co SAs/BCN) to simulate the reduct...