The ’ten electron rule’ provides guidance for the design of single-atom alloy catalysts for targeted chemical reactions.
Dehydrogenation of propane (black) on a single-atom alloy (purple) which is diluted in an inert metal (red) made by Michail Stamatakis from Julia Schumann’s figures courtesy University of Cambridge.ehmigung der University of Cambridge) A collaborative team from three British universities and from Humboldt-Universität have discovered a very simple rule to design single-atom alloy catalysts for chemical reactions. The ’ten electron rule’ helps scientists identify promising catalysts for their experiments very rapidly. Instead of extensive trial and error experiments of computationally demanding computer simulations, catalysts’ composition can be proposed simply looking at the periodic table. ...
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