Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Strong metal-support interaction promoted scalable production of thermally stable single-atom catalysts

  • Kaipeng Liu,
  • Xintian Zhao,
  • Guoqing Ren,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Yujing Ren,
  • Adam Fraser Lee,
  • Yang Su,
  • Xiaoli Pan,
  • Jingcai Zhang,
  • Zhiqiang Chen,
  • Jingyi Yang,
  • Xiaoyan Liu,
  • Tong Zhou,
  • Wei Xi,
  • Jun Luo,
  • Chaobin Zeng,
  • Hiroaki Matsumoto,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Qike Jiang,
  • Karen Wilson,
  • Aiqin Wang,
  • Botao Qiao,
  • Weizhen Li,
  • Tao Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14984-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Large scale production of thermally stable single-atom catalysts (SACs) remains challenging. Here, the authors report scalable synthesis of Ru SACs by heating physical mixture of commercial RuO2 and Fe-containing support, which is significantly promoted by strong metal-support interaction.