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ReviewNature chemistry2025

Progress and pitfalls in designing heterogeneous catalysts with molecular precision.

Jason S Bates

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Review in Nature chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Atomically precise AuNature communications · 2026
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  4. Bioinspired periodic mesoporous tin oxides enable steady nonequilibrium chemical sensing for enhanced gas discrimination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jason S BatesDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. jsb9vw@virginia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-9687

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atomically dispersed heterogeneous catalysts offer the opportunity to design active sites with molecular precision. A recent proliferation of synthetic strategies and advanced characterization tools has propelled broad interest in leveraging these catalysts in diverse areas of chemistry beyond thermal heterogeneous catalysis, including but not limited to organic synthesis, electrochemistry, photochemistry and environmental chemistry. This Perspective aims to arm researchers in this area with the methodological framework and fundamental principles to accurately assess the degree of uniformity of heterogeneous catalyst active sites, and to link the synthesis, structure and function of atomically dispersed catalysts to one another. A paedagogical discussion of catalyst structural dynamics and active-site-specific characterization is supplemented with recent case studies that illustrate these fundamentals. This analysis shows how progress can be guided by requiring that the characterization of active sites is connected to their kinetic behaviour in the form of turnover rates and by leveraging the thermokinetic factors that control active site structures and their dynamics.

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