Clarifying the four core effects of high-entropy materials

WL Hsu, CW Tsai, AC Yeh, JW Yeh - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
High-entropy materials emerged as a field of research in 2004, when the first research on
high-entropy alloys was published. The scope was soon expanded from high-entropy alloys …

High-entropy alloys in electrocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprising five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions have attracted ever increasing attention for their distinctive properties, such as …

A high-entropy atomic environment converts inactive to active sites for electrocatalysis

H Zhu, S Sun, J Hao, Z Zhuang, S Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To understand the mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by high-entropy-alloy (HEA)
electrocatalysts, it has become increasingly crucial to investigate the chemical nature of the …

Single-atom Mo-tailored high-entropy-alloy ultrathin nanosheets with intrinsic tensile strain enhance electrocatalysis

L He, M Li, L Qiu, S Geng, Y Liu, F Tian, M Luo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The precise structural integration of single-atom and high-entropy-alloy features for energy
electrocatalysis is highly appealing for energy conversion, yet remains a grand challenge …

The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

Intermetallic nanocrystals for fuel-cells-based electrocatalysis

F Lin, M Li, L Zeng, M Luo, S Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis underpins the renewable electrochemical conversions for sustainability,
which further replies on metallic nanocrystals as vital electrocatalysts. Intermetallic …

Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites

Y Kang, O Cretu, J Kikkawa, K Kimoto, H Nara… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multimetallic alloys (MMAs) with various compositions enrich the materials library with
increasing diversity and have received much attention in catalysis applications. However …

Toward electrocatalytic methanol oxidation reaction: longstanding debates and emerging catalysts

J Wang, B Zhang, W Guo, L Wang, J Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) has lasted around 70 years, since the first
investigation in the early 1950s. Though enormous effort has been devoted in this field, it is …

Revealing the potential and challenges of high‐entropy layered cathodes for sodium‐based energy storage

H Gao, J Li, F Zhang, C Li, J **ao, X Nie… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) reflect a strategic move for scalable and sustainable energy
storage. The focus on high‐entropy (HE) cathode materials, particularly layered oxides, has …

In situ reconstruction of high‐entropy heterostructure catalysts for stable oxygen evolution electrocatalysis under industrial conditions

J Hu, T Guo, X Zhong, J Li, Y Mei, C Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite of urgent needs for highly stable and efficient electrochemical water‐splitting
devices, it remains extremely challenging to acquire highly stable oxygen evolution reaction …