Encapsulated metal nanoparticles for catalysis

C Gao, F Lyu, Y Yin - Chemical Reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Metal nanoparticles have drawn great attention in heterogeneous catalysis. One challenge
is that they are easily deactivated by migration-coalescence during the catalysis process …

Metal Alloys‐Structured Electrocatalysts: Metal–Metal Interactions, Coordination Microenvironments, and Structural Property–Reactivity Relationships

C Yang, Y Gao, T Ma, M Bai, C He, X Ren… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metal alloys‐structured electrocatalysts (MAECs) have made essential contributions to
accelerating the practical applications of electrocatalytic devices in renewable energy …

Construction of Co4 Atomic Clusters to Enable Fe−N4 Motifs with Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction Performance

A Han, W Sun, X Wan, D Cai, X Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fe− N− C catalysts with single‐atom Fe− N4 configurations are highly needed owing to the
high activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, the limited intrinsic activity and …

Alloying Co species into ordered and interconnected macroporous carbon polyhedra for efficient oxygen reduction reaction in rechargeable zinc–air batteries

W Li, B Liu, D Liu, P Guo, J Liu, R Wang… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Engineering non‐precious transition metal (TM)‐based electrocatalysts to simultaneously
achieve an optimal intrinsic activity, high density of active sites, and rapid mass transfer …

Single atoms and clusters based nanomaterials for hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution reactions, and full water splitting

S Sultan, JN Tiwari, AN Singh… - Advanced Energy …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The sustainable and scalable production of hydrogen through hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER) and oxygen through oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water splitting demands …

Heteroatom‐do** of non‐noble metal‐based catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: an electronic structure tuning strategy

J Wang, T Liao, Z Wei, J Sun, J Guo, Z Sun - Small Methods, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production is an appealing way to reduce carbon
emissions and generate renewable fuels. This promising process, however, is limited by its …

Single‐Atom Cr−N4 Sites Designed for Durable Oxygen Reduction Catalysis in Acid Media

E Luo, H Zhang, X Wang, L Gao, L Gong… - Angewandte …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) are attracting widespread interest for the catalytic oxygen
reduction reaction (ORR), with Fe− Nx SACs exhibiting the most promising activity. However …

Trifunctional Co nanoparticle confined in defect-rich nitrogen-doped graphene for rechargeable Zn-air battery with a long lifetime

A Wang, C Zhao, M Yu, W Wang - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Rationally designing an efficient and stable multifunctional electrocatalyst to replace the
noble metal catalysts is extremely demanding but challenging. Herein, we develop a facile …

High-performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for zinc-air batteries over mesoporous Fe/Co-NC nanofibers with embedding FeCo alloy nanoparticles

C Li, M Wu, R Liu - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Mesoporous Fe/Co-NC nanofibers with embedding FeCo nanoparticles (denote as
FeCo@ MNC) have been prepared from electrospun Fe/Co-N coordination compounds with …

Fast‐Charging Zn–Air Batteries with Long Lifetime Enabled by Reconstructed Amorphous Multi‐Metallic Sulfide

A Wang, X Zhang, S Gao, C Zhao, S Kuang… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Develo** fast‐charging Zn–air batteries is crucial for widening their application but
remains challenging owing to the limitation of sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) …