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 …

Recent progress in defective TiO2 photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications

Z Li, S Wang, J Wu, W Zhou - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent decades, TiO 2 nanomaterial photocatalysts for energy and environmental
applications have attracted extensive research interest. However, the main bottlenecks are …

Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction

K Sun, X Wu, Z Zhuang, L Liu, J Fang, L Zeng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in neutral media is of great practical importance for
sustainable hydrogen production, but generally suffers from low activities, the cause of …

Bimetallic‐based electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

J Jiang, XL Zhou, HG Lv, HQ Yu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a core electrode reaction for the
renewable production of high‐purity hydrogen, carbon‐based fuel, synthetic ammonia, etc …

Periplasmic biomineralization for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Y Lin, J Shi, W Feng, J Yue, Y Luo, S Chen, B Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production

EC Hann, S Overa, M Harland-Dunaway, AF Narvaez… - Nature food, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial photosynthesis systems are proposed as an efficient alternative route to capture
CO2 to produce additional food for growing global demand. Here a two-step CO2 …

A fully conjugated covalent organic framework with oxidative and reductive sites for photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction with water

YZ Cheng, W Ji, PY Hao, XH Qi, X Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing a powerful photocatalytic system that can achieve the carbon dioxide (CO2)
reduction half‐reaction and the water (H2O) oxidation half‐reaction simultaneously is a very …

Manipulating local coordination of copper single atom catalyst enables efficient CO2-to-CH4 conversion

Y Dai, H Li, C Wang, W Xue, M Zhang, D Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical CO2 conversion to methane, powered by intermittent renewable electricity,
provides an entrancing opportunity to both store renewable electric energy and utilize …

Solar-driven methanogenesis with ultrahigh selectivity by turning down H2 production at biotic-abiotic interface

J Ye, C Wang, C Gao, T Fu, C Yang, G Ren… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Integration of methanogens with semiconductors is an effective approach to sustainable
solar-driven methanogenesis. However, the H2 production rate by semiconductors largely …

Unassisted photoelectrochemical cell with multimediator modulation for solar water splitting exceeding 4% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

S Ye, W Shi, Y Liu, D Li, H Yin, H Chi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical overall water splitting has been considered as a promising approach
for producing chemical energy from solar energy. Although many photoelectrochemical cells …