{"id":184294,"date":"2024-03-03T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/synergy-palladium-single-atoms-and-twinned-nanoparticles-for-efficient-co%e2%82%82-photoreduction"},"modified":"2024-03-03T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:26:14","slug":"synergy-palladium-single-atoms-and-twinned-nanoparticles-for-efficient-co%e2%82%82-photoreduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/synergy-palladium-single-atoms-and-twinned-nanoparticles-for-efficient-co%e2%82%82-photoreduction","title":{"rendered":"Synergy palladium single atoms and twinned nanoparticles for efficient CO\u2082 photoreduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synergy-palladium-single-atoms-and-twinned-nanoparticles-for-efficient-coe28282-photoreduction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenge of regulating the electronic structures of metal single-atoms (M-SAs) with metal nanoparticles (M-NPs) lies in the synthesis of a definite architecture. Such a structure has strong electronic metal-support interactions and maintains electron transport channels to facilitate carbon dioxide photoreduction (CO<sub>2<\/sub>PR).<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2772834X24000010\">published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Powder Materials<\/i>, a group of researchers from Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang A&amp;F University and Dalian University of Technology, revealed the engineering of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+density\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron density<\/a> of Pd single atoms with twinned Pd nanoparticles assisted by strong electronic interaction of the atomic metal with the support and unveiled the underlying mechanism for expedited CO<sub>2<\/sub>PR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of the most promising CO<sub>2<\/sub>PR semiconductors, polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3<\/sub>N<sub>4<\/sub>) featured with sp<sup>2<\/sup> \u03c0-conjugated lamellar structures can offer electronegative nitrogen atoms to anchor M-SAs, forming active metal-nitrogen moieties (M\u2013N<sub>x<\/sub>),\u201d explained Lei Li, lead author of the study. \u201cHowever, stable M\u2013N<sub>x<\/sub> configurations forbid tunability of electronic structures of M-SA sites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge of regulating the electronic structures of metal single-atoms (M-SAs) with metal nanoparticles (M-NPs) lies in the synthesis of a definite architecture. Such a structure has strong electronic metal-support interactions and maintains electron transport channels to facilitate carbon dioxide photoreduction (CO2PR). In a study published in Advanced Powder Materials, a group of researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}