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Heterogeneous catalysis involves a catalyst in a different phase from the reactants. It is a process where the catalyst and the reactants are in distinct phases, typically solid and gas or liquid.Most heterogeneous catalysts are metals, metal oxides, or acids. The list includes transition metals like iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), tungsten (W), silver (Ag), and copper (Cu). These metals possess partially vacant d orbitals that...

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Function-Oriented and Waste-Derived Single-Atom Catalysts for Water Purification.

Xiao Zhou¹, Yuen Wu², Han-Qing Yu¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

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Single-atom catalysts (SACs) offer advanced water purification by enabling selective pollutant removal. This review frames SAC design for robust, sustainable water treatment in complex environments.

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Area of Science:

Environmental Catalysis
Materials Science
Water Treatment Technologies

Background:

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) offer unique advantages in environmental catalysis due to maximized atom utilization and controlled interfacial chemistry.
Effective water purification demands catalysts with selective reactivity, matrix interference tolerance, durability, and system compatibility.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unified framework linking atomic-level SAC design to the functional requirements of water purification.
To explore SACs as a platform for selective pollutant removal in complex water matrices.
To consider waste-derived SACs for environmental homology, circularity, and sustainable deployment.

Main Methods:

Reviewing literature on atomic-level SAC design principles for water purification.
Analyzing SACs' capacity for reactive-species pathway regulation and pollutant-oriented site design.
Surveying waste-derived supports, metal sources, and coderived systems for SAC synthesis.

Main Results:

SACs provide site-specific control over reactive species and interfacial microenvironments for selective pollutant removal.
Waste-derived SACs offer a pathway toward circular economy principles in water remediation.
Data-driven design and automation can accelerate the optimization of SACs for environmental catalysis.

Conclusions:

SACs represent a versatile platform for developing selective, robust, and sustainable water treatment technologies.
Integrating waste management with catalyst synthesis advances closed-loop remediation strategies.
Future research should focus on intelligent and adaptive environmental catalysis for multiobjective optimization.