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Tao Zhang’s Team Clarifies the Conceptual Boundary Between Single-Site and Single-Atom Catalysts in Nature Reviews Chemistry

Tao Zhang’s Team Clarifies the Conceptual Boundary Between Single-Site and Single-Atom Catalysts in Nature Reviews ChemistryRecently, a team led by Prof. Tao Zhang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. Graham J. Hutchings from Cardiff University, published a Comment article entitled “Distinguishing single-site from singl...

DICP Researchers Highlight the Role of In Situ/Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Unraveling Dynamic Mechanisms of Single-Atom Catalysis

DICP Researchers Highlight the Role of In Situ/Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Unraveling Dynamic Mechanisms of Single-Atom CatalysisRecently, a research team led by Prof. Tao Zhang, Prof. Yanqiang Huang, and Prof. Xuning Li from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a Perspective article in Chem, entitled "In situ/operando Mössbauer spe...

How single-atom catalysis transformed from a nanoscience curiosity into a new paradigm for heterogeneous catalysis

Nat. Nanotechnol. 21, 1363–1365 (2026)

Academician Tao Zhang Receives the Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award from the Technical University of Munich

Recently, Prof. Tao Zhang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, received the 2025 Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. This marks another important honor for Prof. Zhang following his receipt of the First Prize of the State Natural Science Award...

Warm Congratulations on the "Single-Atom Catalysis" Research Achievement Winning First Prize of the 2025 State Natural Science Award

July 8th，the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards Conference was grandly held in Beijing. The achievement in "Single-Atom Catalysis" and the achievement in "Key Technologies and Applications of a New Generation of Large-Scale All-Vanadium Flow Batteries" from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, were respectively awarded the First Prize of the ...

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Tao Zhang’s Team Clarifies the Conceptual Boundary Between Single-Site and Single-Atom Catalysts in Nature Reviews Chemistry

Tao Zhang’s Team Clarifies the Conceptual Boundary Between Single-Site and Single-Atom Catalysts in Nature Reviews ChemistryRecently, a team led by Prof. Tao Zhang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. Graham J. Hutchings from Cardiff University, published a Comment article entitled “Distinguishing single-site from singl...

Nature Catalysis from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics! “Homologous” Single-Atom Catalyst! In Situ Generation of Unsaturated Ni Single Atoms on the NiO Surface to Form Ni1O1Ni4 Sites!

Partial oxidation of methane (POM) to syngas is an important industrial reaction that converts CH4 and O2 into CO and H2, providing basic feedstocks for processes such as Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, oxygenate production, and ammonia synthesis. Compared with noble-metal catalysts, Ni-based catalysts are less expensive and have high activity potential, and have therefore long been regarded as k...

Academician Tao Zhang Receives the Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award from the Technical University of Munich

Recently, Prof. Tao Zhang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, received the 2025 Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. This marks another important honor for Prof. Zhang following his receipt of the First Prize of the State Natural Science Award...

The 1st China–Europe Single-Atom Catalysis Forum Co-organized by DICP Successfully Held

The 1st China–Europe Single-Atom Catalysis Forum Co-organized by DICP Successfully HeldContributed by: Group 1502From July 19 to 22, the 1st China–Europe Single-Atom Catalysis Forum, jointly organized by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Technical University of Munich, was held at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. The forum was chaired...

Warm Congratulations on the "Single-Atom Catalysis" Research Achievement Winning First Prize of the 2025 State Natural Science Award

July 8th，the 2025 National Science and Technology Awards Conference was grandly held in Beijing. The achievement in "Single-Atom Catalysis" and the achievement in "Key Technologies and Applications of a New Generation of Large-Scale All-Vanadium Flow Batteries" from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, were respectively awarded the First Prize of the ...

Isolated Pd3 Site Catalyst Enables Efficient Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene

Recently, Academician Tao Zhang, Researcher Aiqin Wang, Associate Researcher Leilei Kang and co-workers from our laboratory, in collaboration with Professor Tao Yang’s team at Xi’an Jiaotong University, developed a catalyst featuring isolated Pd3 sites. This work provides a new strategy for the efficient selective hydrogenation of acetylene under ethylene-rich conditions.The selective hydroge...

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Imaging interface-controlled bulk oxygen spillover

Atomic Coordination Editing Achieves Ultraproductive Single-Atom Catalysts with Ultralow Loadings

In situ/operando Mössbauer spectroscopy in single-atom catalysis: From structure-activity relationships to dynamic mechanisms

Charge heterogenized PtFe clusters defy activity–selectivity trade-offs in propane dehydrogenation

Remote allosteric control of single-atom Cu sites in Zr-MOFs enables selective CH4 hydroxylation

Efficient and stable conversion of ethanol/acetaldehyde to 1,3-butadiene over a Zr1/NC@SBA-15 single-atom catalyst

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