Importance of broken geometric symmetry of single-atom Pt sites for efficient electrocatalysis.

ABSTRACT: Platinum single-atom catalysts hold promise as a new frontier in heterogeneous electrocatalysis. However, the exact chemical nature of active Pt sites is highly elusive, arousing many hypotheses to compensate for the significant discrepancies between experiments and theories. Here, we identify the stabilization of low-coordinated Pt^II species on carbon-based Pt single-atom catalysts, which have rarely been found as reaction intermediates of homogeneous Pt^II catalysts but have often been proposed as catalytic sites for Pt single-atom catalysts from theory. Advanced online spectroscopic studies reveal multiple identities of Pt^II moieties on the single-atom catalysts beyond ideally four-coordinated Pt^II-N₄. Notably, decreasing Pt content

SUBMITTER: Cho J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10239452 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature