Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis

H Hu, X Wang, JP Attfield, M Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic high-throughput seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production is a
promising green energy technology that offers possibilities for environmental and energy …

Nanoarchitectonics of metallene materials for electrocatalysis

B Jiang, Y Guo, F Sun, S Wang, Y Kang, X Xu, J Zhao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlling the synthesis of metal nanostructures is one approach for catalyst engineering
and performance optimization in electrocatalysis. As an emerging class of unconventional …

Electronic modulation of non‐van der waals 2D electrocatalysts for efficient energy conversion

H Wang, J Chen, Y Lin, X Wang, J Li, Y Li… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of efficient electrocatalysts for energy conversion is important for green
energy development. Owing to their high surface areas and unusual electronic structure, 2D …

Metal alloys‐structured electrocatalysts: metal–metal interactions, coordination microenvironments, and structural property–reactivity relationships

C Yang, Y Gao, T Ma, M Bai, C He, X Ren… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metal alloys‐structured electrocatalysts (MAECs) have made essential contributions to
accelerating the practical applications of electrocatalytic devices in renewable energy …

Strain and surface engineering of multicomponent metallic nanomaterials with unconventional phases

Q Yao, Z Yu, L Li, X Huang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multicomponent metallic nanomaterials with unconventional phases show great prospects in
electrochemical energy storage and conversion, owing to unique crystal structures and …

Atomically reconstructed palladium metallene by intercalation-induced lattice expansion and amorphization for highly efficient electrocatalysis

M **e, B Zhang, Z **, P Li, G Yu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
As an emerging class of materials with distinctive physicochemical properties, metallenes
are deemed as efficient catalysts for energy-related electrocatalytic reactions. Engineering …

Phase engineering of nanomaterials

Y Chen, Z Lai, X Zhang, Z Fan, Q He, C Tan… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Phase has emerged as an important structural parameter—in addition to composition,
morphology, architecture, facet, size and dimensionality—that determines the properties and …

Noble-metal based random alloy and intermetallic nanocrystals: syntheses and applications

M Zhou, C Li, J Fang - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Precise control over the size, shape, composition, structure, and crystal phase of random
alloy and intermetallic nanocrystals has been intensively explored in technologically …

Crystal-phase engineering in heterogeneous catalysis

JW Zhao, HY Wang, L Feng, JZ Zhu, JX Liu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The performance of a chemical reaction is critically dependent on the electronic and/or
geometric structures of a material in heterogeneous catalysis. Over the past century, the …