Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

Dynamic rhenium dopant boosts ruthenium oxide for durable oxygen evolution

H **, X Liu, P An, C Tang, H Yu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Heteroatom-do** is a practical means to boost RuO2 for acidic oxygen evolution reaction
(OER). However, a major drawback is conventional dopants have static electron …

Enhancing the d/p‐band center proximity with amorphous‐crystalline interface coupling for boosted pH‐robust water electrolysis

Y Liu, T Sakthivel, F Hu, Y Tian, D Wu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Rationalizing non‐precious pH‐robust electrocatalysts is a crucial priority and required for
multi‐scenario hydrogen production customization. Herein, an amorphous–crystalline …

Stable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide

W Zhu, X Song, F Liao, H Huang, Q Shao… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The oxygen evolution reactions in acid play an important role in multiple energy storage
devices. The practical promising Ru-Ir based catalysts need both the stable high oxidation …

In-situ reconstructed Ru atom array on α-MnO2 with enhanced performance for acidic water oxidation

C Lin, JL Li, X Li, S Yang, W Luo, Y Zhang, SH Kim… - Nature Catalysis, 2021‏ - nature.com
The development of acid-stable oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts is essential for
high-performance water splitting. Here, we report an electrocatalyst with Ru-atom-array …

Amorphous Mo‐doped NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanosheets@Crystalline NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanorods for High Current‐density Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Neutral Media

Y Wang, X Li, Z Huang, H Wang, Z Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
It is vitally important to develop highly active, robust and low‐cost transition metal‐based
electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in neutral solution especially at large current …

2D MOFs and their derivatives for electrocatalytic applications: Recent advances and new challenges

L **ao, Z Wang, J Guan - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising electrocatalysts due to their high porosity,
large specific surface area and adjustable structure. Especially, two-dimensional (2D) MOFs …

Marriage of Ultralow Platinum and Single-Atom MnN4 Moiety for Augmented ORR and HER Catalysis

L Gong, J Zhu, F **a, Y Zhang, W Shi, L Chen… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Hitherto, Pt-based catalysts still are state of the art for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but high dosage, low atom-utilization efficiency, and …

Single-site Pt-doped RuO2 hollow nanospheres with interstitial C for high-performance acidic overall water splitting

J Wang, H Yang, F Li, L Li, J Wu, S Liu, T Cheng… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Realizing stable and efficient overall water splitting is highly desirable for sustainable and
efficient hydrogen production yet challenging because of the rapid deactivation of …