Research
Thermodynamic-guided tailoring of single-atom coordination environments via oxygen chemical potential for efficient C-N coupling
Nature · By Qingna Gong ·
The Brief
- Precise control of single-atom coordination is hindered by thermodynamic and kinetic constraints.
- The authors report tuning Fe-O coordination on CoWO4 by adjusting oxygen chemical potential.
- The work targets more efficient C-N coupling.
Why it matters
It offers a thermodynamic guide for controlling the local coordination environment of single-atom catalysts, which can make such catalysts more predictable to design.
Who’s affected
- catalysis researchers
- materials chemists working on single-atom catalysts
- #single-atom catalysis
- #c-n coupling
- #coordination chemistry
- #thermodynamics
- #cowo4
Nature Communications, Published online: 13 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-79091-7 Precise control of single-atom coordination is hindered by thermodynamic and kinetic constraints. Here, the authors report tuning Fe-O coordination on CoWO4 via oxygen chemical potential…
Timeline
Published online in Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/s41467-026-79091-7)
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Thermodynamic-guided tailoring of single-atom coordination environments via oxygen chemical potential for efficient C-N coupling