Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Integrating single-cobalt-site and electric field of boron nitride in dechlorination electrocatalysts by bioinspired design

  • Yuan Min,
  • Xiao Zhou,
  • Jie-Jie Chen,
  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Fangyao Zhou,
  • Zhiyuan Wang,
  • Jia Yang,
  • Can Xiong,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Fengting Li,
  • Han-Qing Yu,
  • Yuen Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20619-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Bridging the biocatalytic repertoire and the effective environmental remediation remains a great challenge. Here, inspired by the dehalogenases, the authors designed a single atom Co catalyst on carbon doped boron nitride that exhibits high stability and selectivity in dechlorination.