General synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high metal loading using graphene quantum dots.

This work was supported by Rice University and the Welch Foundation Research Grant C-2051-20200401. H.W. is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Bio-inspired Solar Energy Program. C.X. acknowledges support from a J. Evans Attwell-Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship. C.X. acknowledges the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China for startup funding (A1098531023601264). This work was performed in part at the Shared Equipment Authority at Rice University. H.N.A. acknowledges support from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. XAS and PDF measurements were conducted at the Canadian Light Source, which is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), National Research Council Canada (NRC) and University of Saskatchewan. Electron microscopy was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.