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Designing single-atom catalysts for enhanced selenium utilization in Li/Na–Se batteries: Overcoming challenges for advanced energy storage solutions

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Orbital coupling of Pt single crystal via decoration of hetero-diatomic nickel-cobalt for efficient hydrogen evolution

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Scale Differentiation Tuning of Electronic Metal–Support Interactions to Construct a Robust Ruthenium‐Based Catalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

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Revolutionizing air pollution control: The role of single atom catalysts in mitigating emissions

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Review of Nanocatalysts Comprising Single Atoms and Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Water Splitting

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Cascade‐Welding Strategy to Anchor Atomic Iron Metal Sites on Superstructured Porous Carbons for both Organic Oxidation Transformation and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Reaction

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Single-Atom Catalysts at the Crossroads: Navigating the Path from Laboratory Synthesis to Real-World Devices

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Single‑Atom‑Induced Electronic Polarization at Adjacent Cluster Promotes Efficient Hydrogen Storage in Magnesium Hydride

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Design of Atomically Dispersed CoN4 Sites and Co Clusters for Synergistically Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis

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The Synergistic Effect of Iron Triatomic Clusters and Fe3C Nanoparticles Enhances Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance in Zinc–Air Batteries

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Heteroatom-doped titanium carbide MXene synthesized using mild etching route as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting

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Engineering First Coordination Shell of Dual‐Atom Sites via Nitrogen Vacancy for Enhanced Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis

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Regulating the location relationship between Cu nanoparticles and Pt atoms to enhance the catalytic hydroisomerization performance: Together or apart?

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Atomic-level engineering on carbon-metal interfaces for high-efficiency oxygen evolution catalysis

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Engineering Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer to Break Activity‐Stability Trade‐Off of Oxygen Electroreduction Catalysts for Temperature‐Adaptive Zn–Air Battery

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Understanding the Three-Shell Coordination Structure–Performance Relationship of Single-Atom Sites for Oxygen Reduction Using Molecular Model Catalysts

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Stabilizing Silver Single‐Atom Site via A Pore‐Confined Triphenylphosphine for CO2 Conversion With High Substrate‐Specificity

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Boosting the Performance and Durability of Fe–N–C Fuel Cell Catalysts via Integrating Mo2C Clusters

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Bifunctional electrode materials: Enhancing microbial fuel cell efficiency with 3D hierarchical porous Fe3O4/Fe-N-C structures

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Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction-Coupled Dechlorination Promoting Acylation Reaction for Aromatic Ester Synthesis

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Engineering single-atom catalysts and Co-catalysts for hydrogen evolution: Design strategies, atomic-level synergies, and stability mechanisms

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Layered double hydroxide-based single-atom catalysts: precise catalyst design on a two-dimensional ‘atomic canvas’

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