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 …

Current and future trends for spinel-type electrocatalysts in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

H Xu, J Yuan, G He, H Chen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Fabricating advanced oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is of vital significance for
the effectiveness of water splitting. Endowed with high catalytic performance toward OER …

Oxygen vacancies in a catalyst for VOCs oxidation: synthesis, characterization, and catalytic effects

Y Zheng, K Fu, Z Yu, Y Su, R Han, Q Liu - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as a significant contributor to atmospheric pollution
such as ozone pollution and PM2. 5, bring about serious harm to the environment and …

Advanced transition metal‐based OER electrocatalysts: current status, opportunities, and challenges

K Zhang, R Zou - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an important half‐reaction involved in many
electrochemical applications, such as water splitting and rechargeable metal–air batteries …

Regulating the electronic structure of manganese-based materials to optimize the performance of zinc-ion batteries

A Zhang, R Zhao, Y Wang, JJ Yang, C Wu… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Manganese-based materials are considered as one of the most promising energy storage
cathode materials for zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs). In order to achieve major breakthroughs in …

Do** regulation in transition metal compounds for electrocatalysis

A Zhang, Y Liang, H Zhang, Z Geng… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In electrocatalysis, do** regulation has been considered as an effective method to
modulate the active sites of catalysts, providing a powerful means for creating a large variety …

Tailoring competitive adsorption sites by oxygen‐vacancy on cobalt oxides to enhance the electrooxidation of biomass

Y Lu, T Liu, CL Dong, C Yang, L Zhou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The electrooxidation of 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) offers a promising green route to
attain high‐value chemicals from biomass. The HMF electrooxidation reaction (HMFOR) is a …

Non-precious-metal catalysts for alkaline water electrolysis: operando characterizations, theoretical calculations, and recent advances

J Wang, Y Gao, H Kong, J Kim, S Choi… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in the development of non-precious catalysts
(NPCs) for alkaline water electrolysis (AWE), especially with the strides made in …

Electronic structure engineering for electrochemical water oxidation

P Babar, J Mahmood, RV Maligal-Ganesh… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the primary challenge in renewable energy storage
technologies, specifically electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generation. The …

In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

J Timoshenko, B Roldan Cuenya - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the last decades, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has become an
indispensable method for probing the structure and composition of heterogeneous catalysts …