Nanocasting SiO2 into metal–organic frameworks imparts dual protection to high-loading Fe single-atom electrocatalysts

Long Jiao; Rui Zhang; Gang Wan; Weijie Yang; Xin Wan; Hua Zhou; Jianglan Shui; Shu-Hong Yu; Hai-Long Jiang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16715-6

Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Nanocasting SiO2 into metal–organic frameworks imparts dual protection to high-loading Fe single-atom electrocatalysts

Long Jiao,
Rui Zhang,
Gang Wan,
Weijie Yang,
Xin Wan,
Hua Zhou,
Jianglan Shui,
Shu-Hong Yu,
Hai-Long Jiang

Affiliations

Long Jiao: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
Rui Zhang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
Gang Wan: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Weijie Yang: School of Energy and Power Engineering, North China Electric Power University
Xin Wan: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University
Hua Zhou: X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
Jianglan Shui: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University
Shu-Hong Yu: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
Hai-Long Jiang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16715-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with high metal loading are highly desired to improve catalytic performance. Here, the authors report a dual protection strategy by nanocasting SiO2 into metal–organic frameworks to prepare high-loading SACs with excellent catalytic performance toward oxygen reduction.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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