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NANOSCALE ADVANCES
Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 1319-1330Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0na00827c
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- Italian MUR [PRIN 2017KFY7XF]
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Advancements in surface science methods have partially bridged the pressure gap between ultra-high vacuum and practical conditions, allowing for better characterization of catalytic systems and tetrapyrroles. The investigation of small ligands at single-metal atom reaction sites has gained attention, particularly in biomimetic 2D metalorganic frameworks. The study of tetrapyrroles at surfaces has opened potential applications in light harvesting, catalysts, chemical sensing, and spintronics.
Recent advances in the development of surface science methods have allowed bridging, at least partially, the pressure gap between the ultra-high vacuum environment and some applicative conditions. This step has been particularly critical for the characterization of heterogenous catalytic systems (solid-liquid, solid-gas interfaces) and, specifically, of the electronic, structural, and chemical properties of tetrapyrroles at surfaces when arranged in 2D networks. Within a biomimetic picture, in which 2D metalorganic frameworks are expected to model and reproduce in a tailored way the activity of their biochemical proteic counterparts, the fundamental investigation of the adsorption and activation of small ligands at the single-metal atom reaction sites has progressively gained increasing attention. Concerning oxygen, biology offers a variety of tetrapyrrole-based transport and reaction pockets, as e.g. in haemoglobin, myoglobin or cytochrome proteins. Binding and activation of O-2 are accomplished thanks to complex charge transfer and spin realignment processes, sometimes requiring cooperative mechanisms. Within the framework of surface science at near-ambient pressure (towards and beyond the mbar regime), recent progress has unveiled novel and interesting properties of 2D metalorganic frameworks and heterostacks based on self-assembled tetrapyrroles, thus opening possible, effective applicative routes in the fields of light harvesting, heterogenous (electro-)catalysts, chemical sensing, and spintronics.
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