Present and future of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

J Langer, D Jimenez de Aberasturi, J Aizpurua… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Recent advances in the understanding of the surface reconstruction of oxygen evolution electrocatalysts and materials development

J Chen, H Chen, T Yu, R Li, Y Wang, Z Shao… - Electrochemical Energy …, 2021 - Springer
The electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays an important role in many clean
electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems, such as electrochemical water …

Role of Transition Metals in Pt Alloy Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

C Lim, AR Fairhurst, BJ Ransom, D Haering… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In pursuit of higher activity and stability of electrocatalysts toward the oxygen reduction
reaction, it has become standard practice to alloy platinum in various structural …

Core–shell nanostructure-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for surface catalysis

H Zhang, S Duan, PM Radjenovic… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The rational design of highly efficient catalysts relies on understanding their
structure–activity relationships and reaction mechanisms at a molecular level. Such an …

In situ spectroscopic insight into the origin of the enhanced performance of bimetallic nanocatalysts towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)

YH Wang, JB Le, WQ Li, J Wei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is vital to understand the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) mechanism at the molecular
level for the rational design and synthesis of high activity fuel‐cell catalysts. Surface …

Tuning the electronic properties of platinum in hybrid‐nanoparticle assemblies for use in hydrogen evolution reaction

L Yang, R Grzeschik, P Jiang, L Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Platinum is the best electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Here, we
demonstrate that by contact electrification of Pt nanoparticle satellites on a gold or silver …

Plasmonic core–shell nanomaterials and their applications in spectroscopies

YJ Zhang, PM Radjenovic, XS Zhou… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic core–shell nanostructures have attracted considerable attention in the scientific
community recently due to their highly tunable optical properties. Plasmon‐enhanced …

Recent advances in formic acid electro-oxidation: From the fundamental mechanism to electrocatalysts

Z Fang, W Chen - Nanoscale Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct formic acid fuel cells have attracted significant attention because of their low fuel
crossover, high safety, and high theoretical power density among all the proton-exchange …

Probing single‐atom catalysts and catalytic reaction processes by shell‐isolated nanoparticle‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy

J Wei, SN Qin, J Yang, HL Ya… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** advanced characterization techniques for single‐atom catalysts (SACs) is of
great significance to identify their structural and catalytic properties. Raman spectroscopy …

SERS for probing highly reactive Pd sites with elongated Pd–Pd bonds on the Au surface

H Zhao, W Ran, G He, H Wei, J Sun, X Zhou, S Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bond length is an important structural parameter that can affect the activity of catalysts. In
core–shell gold–palladium (Au@ Pd) nanocatalysts, sites with elongated Pd–Pd bonds …