Carbon-based electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries: design concepts, recent progress and future perspectives

X Zou, M Tang, Q Lu, Y Wang, Z Shao… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With increasing interest in energy storage solutions, rapid progress has been made by
researchers in the area of rechargeable Zn–air batteries (R-ZABs), which offer multiple …

An overview of silicon-air batteries: Principle, current state and future perspectives

S Hu, Z Wang, J Wang, S Pang, B Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to the increasing demand for sustainable and durable energy sources, various
novel energy conversion and storage systems have emerged and experienced rapid …

High-coordination Fe–N 4 SP single-atom catalysts via the multi-shell synergistic effect for the enhanced oxygen reduction reaction of rechargeable Zn–air battery …

J Liu, W Chen, S Yuan, T Liu, Q Wang - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomically dispersed iron–nitrogen–carbon (Fe–N–C) catalysts are immensely promising
alternatives to noble metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), while their …

Terbium-induced cobalt valence-band narrowing boosts electrocatalytic oxygen reduction

X Wang, J Zhang, P Wang, L Li, H Wang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Rare-earth (RE)-based materials are evolving as a promising paradigm for the
electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to lead the practical application in energy …

Modulating coordination of iron atom clusters on N, P, S triply‐doped hollow carbon support towards enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen reduction

X Guo, J Shi, M Li, J Zhang, X Zheng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing atom‐clusters (ACs) with in situ modulation of coordination environment and
simultaneously hollowing carbon support are critical yet challenging for improving …

Modulating electronic structures of iron clusters through orbital rehybridization by adjacent single copper sites for efficient oxygen reduction

C Qi, H Yang, Z Sun, H Wang, N Xu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The atom‐cluster interaction has recently been exploited as an effective way to increase the
performance of metal‐nitrogen‐carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Tailoring first coordination sphere of dual‐metal atom sites boosts oxygen reduction and evolution activities

Z Wang, R Xu, Q Ye, X **, Z Lu, Z Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
It is important to tune the coordination configuration of dual‐atom catalyst (DAC), especially
in the first coordination sphere, to render high intrinsic catalytic activities for oxygen …

Atomically dispersed multi-site catalysts: bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts boost flexible zinc–air battery performance

S Wang, M Zhang, X Mu, S Liu, D Wang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of efficient bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during charge–discharge cycling is crucial to the …

Surface engineered single‐atom systems for energy conversion

Y Yu, Z Zhu, H Huang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) are demonstrated to show exceptional reactivity and
selectivity in catalytic reactions by effectively utilizing metal species, making them a …

Unraveling the tandem effect of nitrogen configuration promoting oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline seawater

S Wu, X Liu, H Mao, J Zhu, G Zhou, J Chi… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** seawater‐based high‐performance oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
electrocatalysts is meaningful to renewable energy storage and conversion, and the Fe …