As environmental pollutants pose a serious threat to socioeconomic and environmental health,the development of simple,efficient,accurate and costeffective methods for pollution monitoring and control remains a major c...As environmental pollutants pose a serious threat to socioeconomic and environmental health,the development of simple,efficient,accurate and costeffective methods for pollution monitoring and control remains a major challenge,but it is an unavoidable issue.In the past decade,the artificial nanozymes have been widely used for environmental pollutant monitoring and control,because of their low cost,high stability,easy mass production,etc.However,the conventional nanozyme technology faces significant challenges in terms of difficulty in regulating the exposed crystal surface,complex composition,low catalytic activity,etc.In contrast,the emerging single-atom nanozymes(SANs)have attracted much attention in the field of environmental monitoring and control,due to their multiple advantages of atomically dispersed active sites,high atom utilization efficiency,tunable coordination environment,etc.To date,the insufficient efforts have been made to comprehensively characterize the applications of SANs in the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.Building on the recent advances in the field,this review systematically summarizes the main synthesis methods of SANs and highlights their advances in the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.Finally,we critically evaluate the limitations and challenges of SANs,and provide the insights into their future prospects for the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22422604,32472435)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1700300)+1 种基金the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS(CAAS-ASTIP-IQSTAP-04)the State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science。
文摘As environmental pollutants pose a serious threat to socioeconomic and environmental health,the development of simple,efficient,accurate and costeffective methods for pollution monitoring and control remains a major challenge,but it is an unavoidable issue.In the past decade,the artificial nanozymes have been widely used for environmental pollutant monitoring and control,because of their low cost,high stability,easy mass production,etc.However,the conventional nanozyme technology faces significant challenges in terms of difficulty in regulating the exposed crystal surface,complex composition,low catalytic activity,etc.In contrast,the emerging single-atom nanozymes(SANs)have attracted much attention in the field of environmental monitoring and control,due to their multiple advantages of atomically dispersed active sites,high atom utilization efficiency,tunable coordination environment,etc.To date,the insufficient efforts have been made to comprehensively characterize the applications of SANs in the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.Building on the recent advances in the field,this review systematically summarizes the main synthesis methods of SANs and highlights their advances in the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.Finally,we critically evaluate the limitations and challenges of SANs,and provide the insights into their future prospects for the monitoring and control of environmental pollutants.