Single-Atom Alloy Catalysis

Single-atom alloys (SAAs) play an increasingly significant role in the field of single-site catalysis and are typically composed of catalytically active elements atomically dispersed in more inert and catalytically selective host metals. SAAs have been shown to catalyze a range of industrially important reactions in electro-, photo-, and thermal catalysis studies. Due to the unique geometry of SAAs, the location of the transition state and the binding site of reaction intermediates are often decoupled, which can enable both facile dissociation of reactants and weak binding of intermediates, two key factors for efficient and selective catalysis. Often, this results in deviations from transition metal scaling…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: DE-SC 0004738, DE-SC0012573
• OO
  Office of Science

  Awards: DE-SC 0004738, DE-SC0012573
• BE
  Basic Energy Sciences

  Awards: -SC0012573, DE-SC 0004738, DE-SC0012573