Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

A general strategy for preparing pyrrolic-N4 type single-atom catalysts via pre-located isolated atoms

  • Junjie Li,
  • Ya-fei Jiang,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Cong-Qiao Xu,
  • Duojie Wu,
  • Mohammad Norouzi Banis,
  • Keegan R. Adair,
  • Kieran Doyle-Davis,
  • Debora Motta Meira,
  • Y. Zou Finfrock,
  • Weihan Li,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Tsun-Kong Sham,
  • Ruying Li,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Meng Gu,
  • Jun Li,
  • Xueliang Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27143-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Synthesizing single-atom catalysts through a general method presents a great challenge. Here the authors report that Fe, Co and Ni single-atom catalysts can be obtained using pre-located isolated Pt atoms as the catalyst and identify the role of Pt single atoms in the synthesis process.