In Operando Investigation and Prospects of Single-Atom Catalysts
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 291
Special Issue Editor
Interests: single-atom catalysts; electrocatalysts; photocatalysts; energy conversion; operando spectroscopy; separation
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, single-atom catalysis (SACs) has emerged as one of the most active areas in heterogeneous catalysis. Due to the advances in practical methods, characterization techniques, and computational modeling, we now have numerous SACs with unique properties for a wide variety of applications. Nevertheless, the specificity of SACs requires theoretical advances with particularly careful observation. The operando technique is a powerful method for providing information about properties, activity, and selectivity relationships in SACs systems.
This Special Issue therefore focuses on recent progress in SACs for a wide range of catalytic applications, as well as the challenges and prospects of developing in situ/operando technologies for catalysis—that is, the discovery of the unique catalytic mechanism of SACs through operando techniques, the proposal of criteria for theoretically designing SACs, and the extension of the original concept of SACs. This prospect is expected to inspire more in-depth thinking on future research on SACs.
Dr. Imgon Hwang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- single-atom catalysts
- photocatalysts
- electrocatalysts
- heterogeneous catalysts
- operando techniques
- in situ characterization
- energy conversion
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