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ReviewACS catalysis2025

Single Atom Engineering for Electrocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications.

Mario Urso, Xiaohui Ju, Radhika Nittoor-Veedu, Hyesung Lee, Dagmar Zaoralová, Michal Otyepka, Martin Pumera

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Review in ACS catalysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Single-Atom-Enhanced Fully Inkjet-Printed Electrochemical Sensor for Dopamine Detection.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mario UrsoDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana", Università di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Xiaohui JuFuture Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-6003
Radhika Nittoor-VeeduFuture Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
Hyesung LeeFuture Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-3110
Dagmar ZaoralováIT4Innovations, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Michal OtyepkaIT4Innovations, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1066-5677
Martin PumeraFuture Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5846-2951

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global transition to sustainable energy production revolves around innovations in electrocatalysis, the cornerstone of energy conversion technologies. Over the years, catalysts have evolved from bulk materials to nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoclusters (NCs), culminating in single-atom catalysts (SACs), which represent the peak of catalyst engineering. SACs have revolutionized electrocatalytic processes by maximizing atom efficiency and offering tunable electronic properties, lowering the energy barrier associated with the absorption and desorption of key reaction intermediates, thus promoting specific reaction pathways. This review delves into the synthesis, characterization, and theoretical modeling of SACs, offering a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art methodologies. It highlights recent breakthroughs in diverse electrocatalytic reactions, including the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water splitting, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for Zn-air batteries and fuel cells, the CO

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atomically dispersed sitescatalyst engineeringcomputational modelingelectrocatalytic reactionsmetal−support interactionsingle-atom catalysis

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PMID40636740
PMCPMC12235634

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