The ability to precisely engineer the doping of sub-nanometer bimetallic clusters offers exciting opportunities for tailoring their catalytic performance with atomic accuracy. However, the fabrication of singly dispersed bimetallic cluster catalysts with atomic-level control of dopants has been a long-standing challenge. Herein, we report a strategy for the controllable synthesis of a precisely doped single cluster catalyst consisting of partially ligand-enveloped AuPt clusters supported on defective graphene. This creates a bimetal single cluster catalyst (AuPt/G) with exceptional activity for electrochemical nitrogen (N) reduction. Our mechanistic study reveals that each N molecule is activated in the confined region between cluster and graphene. The heteroatom dopant plays an indispensable role in the activation of N via an enhanced back donation of electrons to the N LUMO. Moreover, besides the heteroatom Pt, the catalytic performance of single cluster catalyst can be further tuned by using Pd in place of Pt as the dopant.
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