Transition-Metal Single Atoms in a Graphene Shell as Active Centers for Highly Efficient Artificial Photosynthesis

Chem

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 950-960

  Jiang, Kun ^a   Siahrostami, Samira ^b   Akey, Austin J ^c   Li, Yanbin ^b   Lu, Zhiyi ^b   Lattimer, Judith ^d   Hu, Yongfeng ^e   Stokes, Chris ^a   Gangishetty, Mahesh ^a   Chen, Guangxu ^b   Zhou, Yawei ^f   Hill, Winfield ^a   Cai, Wen Bin ^f   Bell, David ^c,g   Chan, Karen ^h   Nørskov, Jens K ^b,h   Cui, Yi ^c,h   Wang, Haotian ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^f FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial photosynthesis; carbon dioxide reduction; graphene; nickel single atoms; oxygen evolution reaction; renewable energy; single atom catalysis; solar to fuel conversion; three dimensional atom probe tomography; transition metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038255176     PISSN: 24519308     EISSN: 24519294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2017.09.014     Document Type: Article

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