“…EPR, also named as electron spin resonance (ESR), is a technique to detect paramagnetic species that contain unpaired electrons, and it has long been used in the field of surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis since the 1960s. , It is a powerful tool to extract information very sensitively, on the nature, symmetry, electronic structure, and changes in the valence states of the paramagnetic center and interactions with each other as well as with reactants. − The common research objects that involve EPR comprise transition metal ions in paramagnetic valence states, radicals, and radical ions being intrinsic constituents of oxides (such as oxygen vacancies) or formed in reaction and electrons present in metals or in organic polymers. − Information related to these aspects is also indeed a key issue in the research of metal oxide supported single metal atom catalysts, leading to the inevitably use of EPR technology. ,,,,,,,,,, …”