Single Atom Catalysts on Carbon-Based Materials
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2019) | Viewed by 5690
Special Issue Editor
Interests: carbon (nano)materials; supported catalysis; metallic nanoparticles; surface chemistry; small molecule activation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Most catalytic processes are heterogeneous in nature, and often rely on the use of transition metal particles dispersed on high surface area supports. Faced with the rarefaction of noble metals and, more generally, with the toxicity of certain metals, one approach consists in limiting their use to the strict minimum by using single metal atom catalysts. Such an approach can also induce new reactivity’s in comparison with that of metal particles. A second is to eliminate their use by developing a catalysis without metals. Carbonaceous materials lend themselves perfectly because of their rich surface chemistry to both approaches. They can on the one hand serve as support for isolated metal atoms, but also be doped with a number of heteroatoms, which gives them a catalytic activity.
The aim of this Special Issue is to cover promising recent research and novel trends in the field of single atom catalysts on carbon-based materials, which included both single metal atoms anchored on carbon-based materials (including single site catalysts), and doped carbon (nano)materials. Submissions to this Special Issue on “Single Atom Catalysts on Carbon-Based Materials” are welcome in the form of original research papers that reflect the state of research in the field on the following topics: Preparation of single metal atom catalysts and doped carbon (nano)materials and their characterization, modeling studies related to the stability and/or reactivity of single atom catalysts on carbon (nano)materials, reactivity studies related to single atom catalysts on carbon (nano)materials.
Prof. Dr. Philippe Serp
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Carbon materials
- Single metal atom catalysis
- Doped-carbon materials
- Single site catalysts
- Modeling
