Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X **ao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Long‐range interactions in diatomic catalysts boosting electrocatalysis

WH Li, J Yang, D Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous presence of two active metal centres in diatomic catalysts (DACs) leads to
the occurrence of specific interactions between active sites. Such interactions, referred to as …

Interfacial assembly of binary atomic metal-Nx sites for high-performance energy devices

Z Jiang, X Liu, XZ Liu, S Huang, Y Liu, ZC Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells and Zn–air batteries based on non-Pt group metal
catalysts typically suffer from sluggish cathodic oxygen reduction. Designing advanced …

Engineering Single-Atom Active Sites on Covalent Organic Frameworks for Boosting CO2 Photoreduction

L Ran, Z Li, B Ran, J Cao, Y Zhao, T Shao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solar carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion is an emerging solution to meet the challenges of
sustainable energy systems and environmental/climate concerns. However, the construction …

Geometric and Electronic Engineering of Atomically Dispersed Copper‐Cobalt Diatomic Sites for Synergistic Promotion of Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Zinc …

Z Li, S Ji, C Wang, H Liu, L Leng, L Du… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of rechargeable zinc–air batteries is heavily dependent on bifunctional
oxygen electrocatalysts to offer exceptional oxygen reduction/evolution reaction (ORR/OER) …

Promoting surface reconstruction of NiFe layered double hydroxide for enhanced oxygen evolution

H Lei, L Ma, Q Wan, S Tan, B Yang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A dynamic surface reconstruction of oxide electrocatalysts in alkaline media is widely
observed especially for layered double hydroxide (LDH), but little is known about how to …

Engineering dual single‐atom sites on 2D ultrathin N‐doped carbon nanosheets attaining ultra‐low‐temperature zinc‐air battery

T Cui, YP Wang, T Ye, J Wu, Z Chen, J Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, a novel dual single‐atom catalyst comprising adjacent Fe‐N4 and Mn‐N4 sites on
2D ultrathin N‐doped carbon nanosheets with porous structure (FeMn‐DSAC) was …

FeCo alloy entrapped in N-doped graphitic carbon nanotubes-on-nanosheets prepared by coordination-induced pyrolysis for oxygen reduction reaction and …

LL Liu, DH Wu, L Zhang, JJ Feng, AJ Wang - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on cathode severely suffers from sluggish kinetics in zinc-
air batteries. Therefore, substantial efforts have been made to prepare advanced …

Multi-atom cluster catalysts for efficient electrocatalysis

L Sun, V Reddu, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-atom cluster catalysts have turned out to be novel heterogeneous catalysts with atomic
dispersion for electrochemical energy applications. Beyond a simple combination of single …

Dual-atom catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis

J Wang, CX Zhao, JN Liu, YW Song, JQ Huang, BQ Li - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are involved in
various electrochemical devices but are severely sluggish in kinetics. Dual-atom catalysts …