Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

A comprehensive review on the electrochemical parameters and recent material development of electrochemical water splitting electrocatalysts

A Raveendran, M Chandran, R Dhanusuraman - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical splitting of water is an appealing solution for energy storage and conversion
to overcome the reliance on depleting fossil fuel reserves and prevent severe deterioration …

Water electrolysis for hydrogen production: from hybrid systems to self-powered/catalyzed devices

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, WW Tian… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrocatalytic splitting of water holds great promise as a sustainable and
environmentally friendly technology for hydrogen production. However, the sluggish kinetics …

Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites

Y Kang, O Cretu, J Kikkawa, K Kimoto, H Nara… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multimetallic alloys (MMAs) with various compositions enrich the materials library with
increasing diversity and have received much attention in catalysis applications. However …

Interfacial Engineering of Ni3N/Mo2N Heterojunctions for Urea-Assisted Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

T Wang, L Miao, S Zheng, H Qin, X Cao, L Yang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The urea oxidation reaction (UOR) is considered as an alternative to the oxygen evolution
reaction for high-efficiency hydrogen production. However, an urea molecule is relatively …

Revealing the role of interfacial water and key intermediates at ruthenium surfaces in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

X Chen, XT Wang, JB Le, SM Li, X Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ruthenium exhibits comparable or even better alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction activity
than platinum, however, the mechanistic aspects are yet to be settled, which are elucidated …

Anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzers and fuel cells

Y Yang, P Li, X Zheng, W Sun, SX Dou, T Ma… - Chemical society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Anion-exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyzers (AEMWEs) and fuel cells (AEMFCs)
are technologies that, respectively, achieve transformation and utilization of renewable …

Tailoring a local acid-like microenvironment for efficient neutral hydrogen evolution

X Zheng, X Shi, H Ning, R Yang, B Lu, Q Luo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction in neutral media is listed as the most difficult
challenges of energy catalysis due to the sluggish kinetics. Herein, the Ir-HxWO3 catalyst is …

Unraveling the electronegativity-dominated intermediate adsorption on high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts

J Hao, Z Zhuang, K Cao, G Gao, C Wang, F Lai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-entropy alloys have received considerable attention in the field of catalysis due to their
exceptional properties. However, few studies hitherto focus on the origin of their outstanding …

Long‐range interactions in diatomic catalysts boosting electrocatalysis

WH Li, J Yang, D Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous presence of two active metal centres in diatomic catalysts (DACs) leads to
the occurrence of specific interactions between active sites. Such interactions, referred to as …