2023/02/15 by Adrian Chun Minh Loy, Sin Yong Teng, Bing Shen How +8
Energy · Materials Science · #Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques #Catalytic Processes in Materials Science #Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
paper · doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2023.101074
openalex publication_date 2023/02/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The emergence of single atom sites as a frontier research area in catalysis has sparked extensive academic and industrial interest, especially for energy, environmental and chemicals production processes. Single atom catalysts (SACs) have shown remarkable performance in a variety of catalytic reactions, demonstrating high selectivity to the products of interest, long lifespan, high stability and more importantly high atomic metal utilization efficiency. In this review, we unveil in depth insights on development and achievements of SACs, including (a) Chronological progress on SACs development, (b) Recent advances in SACs synthesis, (c) Spatial and temporal SACs characterization techniques, (d) Application of SACs in different energy and chemical production, (e) Environmental and economic aspects of SACs, and (f) Current challenges, promising ideas and future prospects for SACs. On a whole, this review serves to enlighten scientists and engineers in developing fundamental catalytic understanding that can be applied into the future, both for academia or valorizing chemical processes.