Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Single-atom alloy catalysts designed by first-principles calculations and artificial intelligence

  • Zhong-Kang Han,
  • Debalaya Sarker,
  • Runhai Ouyang,
  • Aliaksei Mazheika,
  • Yi Gao,
  • Sergey V. Levchenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22048-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single-atom metal alloys attract considerable interest as alternative metal hydrogenation catalysts. Here the authors combine first-principles calculations with compressed-sensing data-analytics approaches to develop stability and activity’s descriptors for screening single atom alloy catalysts.