Unifying views on catalyst deactivation

AJ Martín, S Mitchell, C Mondelli, S Jaydev… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Berzelius stated that catalysts remain unaltered in their reaction environment. However,
catalyst deactivation always becomes noticeable at certain timescales, frequently hindering …

Recent advances in electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and alkaline membrane fuel cells

F **ao, YC Wang, ZP Wu, G Chen, F Yang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid progress of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and alkaline
exchange membrane fuel cells (AMFCs) has boosted the hydrogen economy concept via …

Regulating the FeN4 Moiety by Constructing Fe–Mo Dual-Metal Atom Sites for Efficient Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction

P Zhu, X **ong, X Wang, C Ye, J Li, W Sun, X Sun… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
An Fe–N–C catalyst with an FeN4 active moiety has gained ever-increasing attention for the
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR); however, the catalytic performance is sluggish in acidic …

Activity trends and mechanisms in peroxymonosulfate‐assisted catalytic production of singlet oxygen over atomic metal‐N‐C catalysts

Y Gao, T Wu, C Yang, C Ma, Z Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesized a series of carbon‐supported atomic metal‐N‐C catalysts (M‐SACs: M= Mn,
Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) with similar structural and physicochemical properties to uncover their …

Recent advances in electrocatalysis with phthalocyanines

S Yang, Y Yu, X Gao, Z Zhang, F Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Applications of phthalocyanines (Pcs) in electrocatalysis—including the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR), the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), the oxygen evolution …

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 …

Strategic modulation of target-specific isolated Fe, Co single-atom active sites for oxygen electrocatalysis impacting high power Zn–air battery

S Sarkar, A Biswas, EE Siddharthan, R Thapa… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
An effective modulation of the active sites in a bifunctional electrocatalyst is essentially
desired, and it is a challenge to outperform the state-of-the-art catalysts toward oxygen …

Carbon quantum dots for energy applications: a review

AS Rasal, S Yadav, A Yadav, AA Kashale… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are a class of carbon nanomaterials that have recently gained
recognition as current entrants to traditional semiconductor quantum dots. CQDs have the …

Intrinsic electrocatalytic activity regulation of M–N–C single‐atom catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

CX Zhao, BQ Li, JN Liu, Q Zhang - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) with highly active sites atomically dispersed on substrates
exhibit unique advantages regarding maximum atomic efficiency, abundant chemical …

Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond

S Chandrasekaran, L Yao, L Deng, C Bowen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …