Electrocatalysis in alkaline media and alkaline membrane-based energy technologies

Y Yang, CR Peltier, R Zeng, R Schimmenti, Q Li… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen energy-based electrochemical energy conversion technologies offer the promise
of enabling a transition of the global energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewable energy …

Recent advances in electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and alkaline membrane fuel cells

F **ao, YC Wang, ZP Wu, G Chen, F Yang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid progress of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and alkaline
exchange membrane fuel cells (AMFCs) has boosted the hydrogen economy concept via …

Tuning the thermal activation atmosphere breaks the activity–stability trade-off of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts

Y Zeng, C Li, B Li, J Liang, MJ Zachman, DA Cullen… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Fe–N–C catalysts are the most promising platinum group metal-free oxygen-reduction
catalysts, but they suffer from a low density of active metal sites and the so-called activity …

High durability of Fe–N–C single‐atom catalysts with carbon vacancies toward the oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline media

H Tian, A Song, P Zhang, K Sun, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted extensive interest to catalyze the oxygen
reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells and metal–air batteries. However, the development of …

Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen–carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells

S Liu, C Li, MJ Zachman, Y Zeng, H Yu, B Li, M Wang… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen-coordinated single atom iron sites (FeN4) embedded in carbon (Fe–N–C) are the
most active platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction catalysts for proton-exchange …

Interfacial assembly of binary atomic metal-Nx sites for high-performance energy devices

Z Jiang, X Liu, XZ Liu, S Huang, Y Liu, ZC Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells and Zn–air batteries based on non-Pt group metal
catalysts typically suffer from sluggish cathodic oxygen reduction. Designing advanced …

Atomic metal–non-metal catalytic pair drives efficient hydrogen oxidation catalysis in fuel cells

Q Wang, H Wang, H Cao, CW Tung, W Liu, SF Hung… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Rational design of efficient hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) electrocatalysts with
maximum utilization of platinum-group metal sites is critical to hydrogen fuel cells, but …

MIL‐101‐derived mesoporous carbon supporting highly exposed Fe single‐atom sites as efficient oxygen reduction reaction catalysts

X **e, L Peng, H Yang, GIN Waterhouse… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fe single‐atom catalysts (Fe SACs) with atomic FeNx active sites are very promising
alternatives to platinum‐based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The …

Recent advances in electrocatalysis with phthalocyanines

S Yang, Y Yu, X Gao, Z Zhang, F Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Applications of phthalocyanines (Pcs) in electrocatalysis—including the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR), the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), the oxygen evolution …

Probing the oxygen reduction reaction intermediates and dynamic active site structures of molecular and pyrolyzed Fe–N–C electrocatalysts by in situ Raman …

J Wei, D **a, Y Wei, X Zhu, J Li, L Gan - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
While FeN4 species are widely suggested as the active sites of noble-metal-free Fe–N–C
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts, the ORR mechanism, particularly the rate …