Issue 35, 2021

Designing the electronic and geometric structures of single-atom and nanocluster catalysts

Abstract

This article highlights some recent advances in the electronic and geometric structures of single-atom and nanocluster catalysts, which play an inevitably important role in modern catalysis. The combined use of modern characterisation techniques enables surface, solid-state and coordination chemists to develop more extensive, more cohesive and more appropriate frameworks to rationalise the structure–reactivity functions of these atomically dispersed entities, which further provides the necessary details for the identification of chemical trends and benchmark quantum sciences. We also offer an outlook on the challenges and opportunities of this research area.

Graphical abstract: Designing the electronic and geometric structures of single-atom and nanocluster catalysts

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
01 4 2021
Accepted
07 6 2021
First published
07 6 2021

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021,9, 18773-18784

Designing the electronic and geometric structures of single-atom and nanocluster catalysts

T. Chen, L. Ye and T. W. B. Lo, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 18773 DOI: 10.1039/D1TA02723A

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