Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A cocoon silk chemistry strategy to ultrathin N-doped carbon nanosheet with metal single-site catalysts

  • Youqi Zhu,
  • Wenming Sun,
  • Jun Luo,
  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Tai Cao,
  • Lirong Zheng,
  • Juncai Dong,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Maolin Zhang,
  • Yunhu Han,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Qing Peng,
  • Dingsheng Wang,
  • Yadong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06296-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single-site catalysts supported by ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) porous matrix are desirable for catalytic reactions, yet their synthesis remains a great challenge. Herein the authors report a cocoon silk chemistry strategy to synthesize isolated metal single-site catalysts embedded in ultrathin 2D porous N-doped carbon nanosheets.