Megha A. Deshmukh1, Aristides Bakandritsos1,2,*, and Radek Zbořil1,2,**
Author Affiliations
1Nanotechnology Centre, Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies, VŠB–Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic2Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 241/27, 783 71 Olomouc – Holice, Czech Republicshow less
【AIGC One Sentence Reading】:BimSACs enhance water splitting for green hydrogen production, offering unique metal-support interactions & electronic tuning.
【AIGC Short Abstract】:Bimetallic single-atom catalysts (bimSACs) are gaining attention for water splitting, offering rich cooperativity and addressing SAC limitations. This review highlights advancements in bimSACs, focusing on their role in hydrogen generation. It discusses experimental methodologies, electronic properties, and coordination environment, exploring their deployment in hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions.
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Abstract
Green hydrogen from water splitting has emerged as a critical energy vector with the potential to spearhead the global transition to a fossil fuel-independent society. The field of catalysis has been revolutionized by single-atom catalysts (SACs), which exhibit unique and intricate interactions between atomically dispersed metal atoms and their supports. Recently, bimetallic SACs (bimSACs) have garnered significant attention for leveraging the synergistic functions of two metal ions coordinated on appropriately designed supports. BimSACs offer an avenue for rich metal–metal and metal–support cooperativity, potentially addressing current limitations of SACs in effectively furnishing transformations which involve synchronous proton–electron exchanges, substrate activation with reversible redox cycles, simultaneous multi-electron transfer, regulation of spin states, tuning of electronic properties, and cyclic transition states with low activation energies. This review aims to encapsulate the growing advancements in bimSACs, with an emphasis on their pivotal role in hydrogen generation via water splitting. We subsequently delve into advanced experimental methodologies for the elaborate characterization of SACs, elucidate their electronic properties, and discuss their local coordination environment. Overall, we present comprehensive discussion on the deployment of bimSACs in both hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction, the two half-reactions of the water electrolysis process.