Bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall and hybrid water splitting

L Quan, H Jiang, G Mei, Y Sun, B You - Chemical Reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic water splitting driven by renewable electricity has been recognized as a
promising approach for green hydrogen production. Different from conventional strategies in …

Nanoscale metal particle modified single‐atom catalyst: synthesis, characterization, and application

R Chen, S Chen, L Wang, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted considerable attention in heterogeneous
catalysis because of their well‐defined active sites, maximum atomic utilization efficiency …

A strongly coupled Ru–CrOx cluster–cluster heterostructure for efficient alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis

B Zhang, J Wang, G Liu, CM Weiss, D Liu, Y Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2024‏ - nature.com
Constructing well-defined heterostructure interfaces in catalysts is an efficient strategy to
break the so-called scaling relationships and to accelerate the reactions involving multiple …

Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting

J Chen, C Chen, M Qin, B Li, B Lin, Q Mao… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Noble metal electrocatalysts (eg, Pt, Ru, etc.) suffer from sluggish kinetics of water
dissociation for the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen in alkaline and …

Arming Ru with Oxygen‐Vacancy‐Enriched RuO2 Sub‐Nanometer Skin Activates Superior Bifunctionality for pH‐Universal Overall Water Splitting

Y Li, W Wang, M Cheng, Y Feng, X Han… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Water electrolysis has been expected to assimilate the renewable yet intermediate energy‐
derived electricity for green H2 production. However, current benchmark anodic catalysts of …

Subnanometric Ru clusters with upshifted D band center improve performance for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

Q Hu, K Gao, X Wang, H Zheng, J Cao, L Mi… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Subnanometric metal clusters usually have unique electronic structures and may display
electrocatalytic performance distinctive from single atoms (SAs) and larger nanoparticles …

Anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzers

N Du, C Roy, R Peach, M Turnbull, S Thiele… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
This Review provides an overview of the emerging concepts of catalysts, membranes, and
membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for water electrolyzers with anion-exchange …

Lattice Strain and Schottky Junction Dual Regulation Boosts Ultrafine Ruthenium Nanoparticles Anchored on a N-Modified Carbon Catalyst for H2 Production

Z Jiang, S Song, X Zheng, X Liang, Z Li… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Ruthenium-based materials are considered great promising candidates to replace Pt-based
catalysts for hydrogen production in alkaline conditions. Herein, we adopt a facile method to …

Electronic structure engineering of single‐atom Ru sites via Co–N4 sites for bifunctional pH‐universal water splitting

C Rong, X Shen, Y Wang, L Thomsen… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of bifunctional water‐splitting electrocatalysts that are efficient and stable
over a wide range of pH is of great significance but challenging. Here, an atomically …

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 …