Oxygen reduction electrocatalysts toward practical fuel cells: progress and perspectives

S Zaman, L Huang, AI Douka, H Yang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fuel cells are an incredibly powerful renewable energy technology, but their broad
applications remains lagging because of the high cost and poor reliability of cathodic …

Progress and challenges in electrochemical energy storage devices: Fabrication, electrode material, and economic aspects

R Sharma, H Kumar, G Kumar, S Sharma… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy storage devices are contributing to reducing CO 2 emissions on the earth's crust.
Lithium-ion batteries are the most commonly used rechargeable batteries in smartphones …

Advanced electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in energy conversion technologies

X Tian, XF Lu, BY **a, XWD Lou - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
The exploration of highly active, durable, and cost-effective electrocatalysts for the oxygen
reduction reaction (ORR) is indispensable for several important energy conversion …

Recent progress of transition metal-based catalysts as cathodes in O 2/H 2 O-involved and pure Li–CO 2 batteries

J Chen, XY Chen, Y Liu, Y Qiao, SY Guan… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of clean energy storage and reducing CO2 emissions is an effective
strategy to meet the growing energy demands and achieve a sustainable route …

Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc–air batteries: progress, mechanism, and opportunities

X Zhu, C Hu, R Amal, L Dai, X Lu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Zinc–air batteries are regarded as promising candidates for next-generation clean and
sustainable energy storage devices, due to their low-cost, safety, eco-friendliness, and high …

Structural design of supported electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries

Q Lu, X Zou, Y Bu, Z Shao - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Rechargeable Zn–air batteries, which combine the key features of secondary batteries and
fuel cells, have been regarded as the next-generation energy storage/conversion device in …

Challenges in zinc electrodes for alkaline zinc–air batteries: obstacles to commercialization

Z Zhao, X Fan, J Ding, W Hu, C Zhong, J Lu - ACS Energy Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Alkaline zinc–air batteries are promising energy storage technologies with the advantages
of low cost, ecological friendliness, and high energy density. However, the rechargeable …

Role of transition metal oxides in g-C3N4-based heterojunctions for photocatalysis and supercapacitors

L Bai, H Huang, S Yu, D Zhang, H Huang… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract gC 3 N 4 emerges as a star 2D photocatalyst due to its unique layered structure,
suitable band structure and low cost. However, its photocatalytic application is limited by the …

A zeolitic‐imidazole frameworks‐derived interconnected macroporous carbon matrix for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis in rechargeable zinc–air batteries

AI Douka, Y Xu, H Yang, S Zaman, Y Yan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanostructures derived from zeolitic‐imidazole frameworks (ZIFs) gain much interest in
bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis. However, they are not satisfied well for long‐life …

Harnessing the interplay of Fe–Ni atom pairs embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis

X Zhu, D Zhang, CJ Chen, Q Zhang, RS Liu, Z **a… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) both have sluggish
kinetics, which normally requires the use of noble metal-based catalysts (eg RuO 2, IrO x …