A paper titled "Little do more: a highly effective Pt₁/FeO_x single-atom catalyst for the reduction of NO by H₂" delivered by Dr. Jian Lin was published in Chemical Communications.

Article link：http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/CC/C5CC00714C.

Supported Pt-group-metal (PGM) catalysts are effective for the reduction of NO_x by H₂ at temperatures lower than 300 ^oC, which has attracted great attention as an alternative deNO_x route. One problem with Pt-based catalysts is that a high selectivity toward N₂O is typically observed, resulting in a low N₂ selectivity. In this work, we found that a Pt-SAC catalyst, even with approximately 20 times lower Pt loading when compared with the Pt-Nano catalyst, exhibited higher NO conversion and selectivity toward N₂ at a wide temperature range (200-280^oC). It was suggested that stronger adsorption of NO and higher amount of oxygen vacancies on Pt-SAC than that on Pt-Nano may favour the dissociation of NO to N_(ad) and O_(ad), thus consequently giving rise to higher N₂ selectivity. This work will help to design more active deNO_x catalyst, especially the single-atom catalyst and also indicates the advantage of single atom sites in control of targeted products.