Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

Hydrogen society: From present to future

D Guan, B Wang, J Zhang, R Shi, K Jiao, L Li… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen energy is an important cornerstone for realizing net-zero and sustainable
development plans. The successful construction of a hydrogen society requires …

A membrane-based seawater electrolyser for hydrogen generation

H **e, Z Zhao, T Liu, Y Wu, C Lan, W Jiang, L Zhu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical saline water electrolysis using renewable energy as input is a highly
desirable and sustainable method for the mass production of green hydrogen,,,,,–; however …

Integration of Alloy Segregation and Surface Co O Hybridization in Carbon‐Encapsulated CoNiPt Alloy Catalyst for Superior Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution

Y Pan, J Gao, E Lv, T Li, H Xu, L Sun… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing an efficient alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalyst with low
platinum (Pt) consumption is crucial for the cost reduction of energy devices, such as …

Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting

J Chen, C Chen, M Qin, B Li, B Lin, Q Mao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Noble metal electrocatalysts (eg, Pt, Ru, etc.) suffer from sluggish kinetics of water
dissociation for the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen in alkaline and …

Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on Pt

P Li, Y Jiang, Y Hu, Y Men, Y Liu, W Cai, S Chen - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the large kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis, that is, the
approximately two orders of magnitude decrease in reaction kinetics when moving from acid …

Tailoring a local acid-like microenvironment for efficient neutral hydrogen evolution

X Zheng, X Shi, H Ning, R Yang, B Lu, Q Luo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction in neutral media is listed as the most difficult
challenges of energy catalysis due to the sluggish kinetics. Herein, the Ir-HxWO3 catalyst is …

Rapid complete reconfiguration induced actual active species for industrial hydrogen evolution reaction

L Wang, Y Hao, L Deng, F Hu, S Zhao, L Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rational regulation of electrochemical reconfiguration and exploration of activity origin are
important foundations for realizing the optimization of electrocatalyst activity, but rather …

High-entropy alloys in electrocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprising five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions have attracted ever increasing attention for their distinctive properties, such as …