Transition metal carbides and nitrides in energy storage and conversion

Y Zhong, X **a, F Shi, J Zhan, J Tu, HJ Fan - Advanced science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance electrode materials are the key to advances in the areas of energy
conversion and storage (eg, fuel cells and batteries). In this Review, recent progress in the …

Transition metal carbide catalysts for biomass conversion: A review

J Pang, J Sun, M Zheng, H Li, Y Wang… - Applied catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for sustainable energy resources has initiated the investigation of
biomass conversion over a wide range of catalysts. Among those, transition metal carbides …

Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC catalysts

L Lin, W Zhou, R Gao, S Yao, X Zhang, W Xu, S Zheng… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) running on hydrogen are attractive
alternative power supplies for a range of applications,,, with in situ release of the required …

Carbide-supported Au catalysts for water–gas shift reactions: a new territory for the strong metal–support interaction effect

J Dong, Q Fu, Z Jiang, B Mei, X Bao - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Strong metal–support interaction (SMSI) has been regarded as one of the most important
concepts in heterogeneous catalysis, which has been almost exclusively discussed in …

High‐density and thermally stable palladium single‐atom catalysts for chemoselective hydrogenations

Y Ma, Y Ren, Y Zhou, W Liu, W Baaziz… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have shown superior activity and/or selectivity for many
energy‐and environment‐related reactions, but their stability at high site density and under …

H2 Production from Methane Reforming over Molybdenum Carbide Catalysts: From Surface Properties and Reaction Mechanism to Catalyst Development

H Wang, Y Diao, Z Gao, KJ Smith, X Guo, D Ma… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen, with its high energy content and environmental-friendly properties, is considered
an effective energy carrier in addition to fossil fuels. Methane reforming represents a major …

Preparation and catalytic properties of transition metal carbides and nitrides

ST Oyama - Catalysis today, 1992 - Elsevier
Interstitial alloys are formed by the incorporation of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen into the
lattices of early transition metals to produce a class of compounds with metallic character …

In Situ Investigations on Structural Evolutions during the Facile Synthesis of Cubic α-MoC1–x Catalysts

X Sun, J Yu, S Cao, A Zimina, BB Sarma… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cubic α-phase molybdenum carbides (α-MoC1–x) exhibit great potential in hydrogen
production at low temperatures due to their excellent activity in water dissociation. However …

Impact of the coordination environment on atomically dispersed Pt catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

S Li, J Liu, Z Yin, P Ren, L Lin, Y Gong, C Yang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Because of the structural complexity and inhomogeneity, the effect of the coordination
environment on the catalytic properties is underexplored in heterogeneous catalytic …

New catalysts for the conversion of methane to synthesis gas: molybdenum and tungsten carbide

JB Claridge, APE York, AJ Brungs… - Journal of catalysis, 1998 - Elsevier
High-surface-area molybdenum and tungsten carbide materials, synthesised by the
temperature programming reduction of the relevant metal oxide with methane/hydrogen, are …