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 …

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 …

Amorphous Mo‐doped NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanosheets@Crystalline NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanorods for High Current‐density Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Neutral Media

Y Wang, X Li, Z Huang, H Wang, Z Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is vitally important to develop highly active, robust and low‐cost transition metal‐based
electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in neutral solution especially at large current …

Vanadium oxides with amorphous‐crystalline heterointerface network for aqueous zinc‐ion batteries

Z Wang, Y Song, J Wang, Y Lin, J Meng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rechargeable aqueous Zn‐VOx batteries are attracting attention in large scale
energy storage applications. Yet, the sluggish Zn2+ diffusion kinetics and ambiguous …

Sodium‐Decorated Amorphous/Crystalline RuO2 with Rich Oxygen Vacancies: A Robust pH‐Universal Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst

L Zhang, H Jang, H Liu, MG Kim, D Yang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key reaction for many electrochemical devices. To
date, many OER electrocatalysts function well in alkaline media, but exhibit poor …

Emerging beyond-graphene elemental 2D materials for energy and catalysis applications

FR Fan, R Wang, H Zhang, W Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as promising candidates for
energy and catalysis applications due to their unique physical, chemical, and electronic …

Single atom Ru monolithic electrode for efficient chlorine evolution and nitrate reduction

Y Yao, L Zhao, J Dai, J Wang, C Fang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fabricating single‐atom electrodes via atomic dispersion of active metal atoms into
monolithic metal supports is of great significance to advancing the lab‐to‐fab translation of …

A 2D/2D heterojunction of ultrathin Pd nanosheet/MXene towards highly efficient methanol oxidation reaction: the significance of 2D material nanoarchitectonics

H Huang, D **ao, Z Zhu, C Zhang, L Yang, H He… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional (2D) Pd nanosheet-based catalysts have recently garnered widespread
attention due to their high atom utilization efficiency. However, their catalytic ability and …

Boosting the sonodynamic cancer therapy performance of 2D layered double hydroxide nanosheet‐based sonosensitizers via crystalline‐to‐amorphous phase …

T Hu, W Shen, F Meng, S Yang, S Yu, H Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) has been a promising therapeutic modality for cancer because
of its superior advantages compared with other therapeutic strategies. However, the current …

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 …