Engineering the Coordination Sphere of Isolated Active Sites to Explore the Intrinsic Activity in Single-Atom Catalysts

• Published in: Nano-micro letters Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 136 - 28
• Main Authors: Wu, Xin, Zhang, Huabin, Zuo, Shouwei, Dong, Juncai, Li, Yang, Zhang, Jian, Han, Yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 01.12.2021; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Catalysis; Coordination numbers; Coordination sphere; Energy conversion; Engineering; Intrinsic activity; Isolated atoms; Nanoparticles; Nanoscale Science and Technology; Nanotechnology; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Review; Single atom catalysts; Spheres; Structural analysis; Tuning; Coordination sphere; Single-atom catalysts; Isolated atoms; Intrinsic activity

Highlights All the coordination engineering strategies, such as tuning the coordination species, the coordination number of the active centers, heteroatoms interactions within the support, synergetic interaction between neighboring metal monomers, and spatial microenvironment, have been summarized a...