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Wenxin Guo1,2, Zhiyuan Wang1,2, Xiaoqian Wang1,2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.

Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|July 8, 2021
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Summary

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) offer high efficiency and tunable active sites for catalysis. This review covers their precise synthesis, diverse applications, and challenges for industrial-scale production.

Keywords:
active siteselectrocatalysis and photocatalysislarge-scale preparationprecise synthesissingle-atom catalysts

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