Yu-Chen Hao, Li-Wei Chen, Jiani Li, Yu Guo, Xin Su, Miao Shu, Qinghua Zhang, Wen-Yan Gao, Siwu Li, Zi-Long Yu, Lin Gu, Xiao Feng, An-Xiang Yin, Rui Si, Ya-Wen Zhang, Bo Wang, Chun-Hua Yan
The demand for sustainable energy has motivated the development of artificial photosynthesis. Yet the catalyst and reaction interface designs for directly fixing permanent gases (e.g. CO2 , O2 , N2 ) into liquid fuels are still challenged by slow mass transfer and sluggish catalytic kinetics at the gas-liquid-solid boundary. Here, we report that gas-permeable metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes can modify the electronic structures and catalytic properties of metal single-atoms (SAs) to promote the diffusion, activation, and reduction of gas molecules (e...
May 11, 2021: Nature Communications