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Shuting Xiang¹, Peipei Huang², Junying Li¹

¹Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA. anatoly.frenkel@stonybrook.edu.

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This study introduces a novel cobalt single-atom catalyst (SAC) on carbon nitride for CO2 reduction. Machine learning analysis of X-ray data reveals atomic-level structural insights crucial for understanding catalytic mechanisms.

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Area of Science:

Catalysis
Materials Science
Nanotechnology

Background:

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) show promise for CO2 reduction.
Understanding SAC structure at the atomic level is key for mechanism elucidation.
In situ characterization is vital for studying catalysts under reaction conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

To prepare and characterize a cobalt SAC on carbon nitride for photocatalytic CO2 reduction.
To apply machine learning methods for analyzing in situ X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) data.
To gain quantitative structural information about the SAC's atomic environment during reactions.

Main Methods:

Grafting a molecular cobalt catalyst onto a carbon nitride support.
Utilizing in situ X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy.
Applying machine learning techniques: principal component analysis, K-means clustering, and neural networks (NN).

Main Results:

Successful preparation of a cobalt SAC on a carbon nitride surface.
Demonstrated sensitivity of XANES spectra to structural variations under reaction conditions.
Quantitative structural information of the SAC's nearest atomic environment was obtained using ML-XANES.

Conclusions:

The study successfully extended the NN-XANES approach for analyzing SACs.
Machine learning analysis of in situ XANES provides valuable atomic-level structural insights.
This work advances the understanding of SACs in photocatalytic CO2 reduction.