The rise of Single-Atom Catalysts

TL;DR

This review discusses recent advances in single-atom catalysts, highlighting their synthesis, applications, and reaction mechanisms, emphasizing their high activity, selectivity, stability, and cost-effectiveness in catalytic processes.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress in single-atom catalysis, focusing on synthesis methods, applications, and theoretical understanding of reaction mechanisms.

Findings

Advancements in synthesis techniques for single-atom catalysts

Application of single-atom catalysts in various reactions

Theoretical insights into reaction mechanisms via density functional theory

Abstract

In recent years, single-atom catalysts attracted lots of attention because of their high catalytic activity, selectivity, stability, maximum atom utilization, exceptional performance, and low cost. Single-atom catalyst contains isolated individual atom which are coordinated with the surface atoms of support such as a metal oxide or 2d - materials. In this review article, we present the advancement in single-atom catalysis in recent years with a focus on the various synthesis methods and their application in catalytic reactions. We also demonstrate the reaction mechanism of a single-atom catalyst for different catalytic reactions from theoretical aspects using density functional theory.