Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces important challenges, one of which is controlling the bonding/coordination between the single atoms and the support in order to compensate for the increase in surface energy when the particle size is reduced due to atomic dispersion. Excellent candidates to meet this requirement are carbon nitride (CN)-based materials. Metal atoms can be firmly trapped in nitrogen-rich coordination sites in CN materials, which makes them a unique class of hosts for preparing single-atom catalysts (SACs). As one of the most promising two-dimensional supports…

• FD
  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

  Awards: 2022/04748-9, 2021/11162-8, 2021/14006-7, 2021/13271-9, 2020/14741-6, 2021/12394-0, 2022/14652-9
• CN
  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

  Awards: 403064/2021-0, 423196/2018-9, 405752/2022-9