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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Superatoms as Superior Catalysts: ZrO versus Pd.

Mehmet Emin Kilic, Puru Jena

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Superatoms as Superior Catalysts: ZrO versus Pd.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mehmet Emin KilicDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2000, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1814-5104
Puru JenaDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2000, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2316-859X

Funding

Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award DE-FG02-96ER45579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-atom catalysts are the focus of studies for over a decade due to their enhanced reactivity at smaller sizes. However, they have limitations as they offer only one active site, which may not be sufficient for reactions requiring the co-adsorption of multiple reactants. Additionally, atoms can migrate on a substrate and coalesce, resulting in decreased reactivity. Here, an alternate path, a single-superatom catalyst is provided. Superatoms are clusters of atoms that mimic the chemistry of atoms even if they do not contain a single atom whose chemistry they mimic. Motivated by an experimental paper on the photoelectron-spectroscopy of negatively charged ions where ZrO is found to mimic properties of a Pd atom, first the reaction of Pd and ZrO with small molecules in the gas-phase is studied and found that ZrO not only mimics the chemistry of Pd, but is able to activate these molecules more strongly than Pd. A detailed first-principles study of CO

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single‐atom catalystssingle‐superatom catalystssuperatomsZrO

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PMID39757507
PMCPMC11855260

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