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Cover Picture: Stable Isolated Metal Atoms as Active Sites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution (Chem. Eur. J. 8/2014)
Author(s) -
Xing Jun,
Chen Jian Fu,
Li Yu Hang,
Yuan Wen Tao,
Zhou Ying,
Zheng Li Rong,
Wang Hai Feng,
Hu P.,
Wang Yun,
Zhao Hui Jun,
Wang Yong,
Yang Hua Gui
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201490027
Subject(s) - photocatalysis , catalysis , metal , noble metal , hydrogen , nanoparticle , materials science , cover (algebra) , nanotechnology , water splitting , chemistry , chemical engineering , photochemistry , metallurgy , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
TiO 2 photocatalysts loaded with isolated Pt atoms were successfully synthesized by a simple and convenient technique as described by H. F. Wang and H. G. Yang et al. in their Communication on page 2138 ff. Isolated Pt atoms can stably anchor on TiO 2 and exhibit a high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance compared with Pt nanoparticles or clusters. Moreover, the configurations of the isolated Pt atoms and their catalytic hydrogen evolution activity were calculated by large‐scale periodic DFT analysis. The results obtained for such model catalysts not only opens a door for synthesizing high‐efficiency catalytic materials, but also has a great potential to reduce the high cost of commercial noble metal catalysts in industry.