Carbon nanotubes and related nanomaterials: critical advances and challenges for synthesis toward mainstream commercial applications

R Rao, CL Pint, AE Islam, RS Weatherup, S Hofmann… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Advances in the synthesis and scalable manufacturing of single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) remain critical to realizing many important commercial applications. Here we …

Single‐atom catalysts: emerging multifunctional materials in heterogeneous catalysis

H Zhang, G Liu, L Shi, J Ye - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Supported metal nanoparticles are the most widely investigated heterogeneous catalysts in
catalysis community. The size of metal nanostructures is an important parameter in …

Ligand Modulation of Active Sites to Promote Cobalt‐Doped 1T‐MoS2 Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Media

HJ Liu, S Zhang, YM Chai, B Dong - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalyst will determine the mass
distributions of hydrogen‐powered clean technologies, while still faces grand challenges. In …

Direct and oxidative dehydrogenation of propane: from catalyst design to industrial application

JH Carter, T Bere, JR Pitchers, DG Hewes… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct formation of propene from propane is a well-established commercial process,
which on the basis of energy consumption, is environmentally preferred to the current large …

In situ exfoliated, N‐doped, and edge‐rich ultrathin layered double hydroxides nanosheets for oxygen evolution reaction

Y Wang, C **e, Z Zhang, D Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The number of catalytically reactive sites and their intrinsic electrocatalytic activity strongly
affect the performance of electrocatalysts. Recently, there are growing concerns about …

Atomically-thin two-dimensional sheets for understanding active sites in catalysis

Y Sun, S Gao, F Lei, Y **e - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalysis can speed up chemical reactions and it usually occurs on the low coordinated
steps, edges, terraces, kinks and corner atoms that are often called “active sites”. However …

Two-Dimensional MoS2 Confined Co(OH)2 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Electrolytes

Y Luo, X Li, X Cai, X Zou, F Kang, HM Cheng, B Liu - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of abundant and cheap electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER) has attracted increasing attention over recent years. However, to achieve low …

Creating single-atom Pt-ceria catalysts by surface step decoration

F Dvořák, M Farnesi Camellone, A Tovt… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts maximize the utilization of supported precious metals by exposing
every single metal atom to reactants. To avoid sintering and deactivation at realistic reaction …

Platinum-based oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

J Wu, H Yang - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
An efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) offers the potential for clean energy generation
in low-temperature, proton-exchange membrane fuel cells running on hydrogen fuel and air …

Unveiling Active Sites for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Monolayer MoS2

J Zhang, J Wu, H Guo, W Chen, J Yuan… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Here, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activities at the edge and basal‐plane sites of
monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) …