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 …

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 …

Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Seawater electrolysis for fuels and chemicals production: fundamentals, achievements, and perspectives

L Chen, C Yu, J Dong, Y Han, H Huang, W Li… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Seawater electrolysis for the production of fuels and chemicals involved in onshore and
offshore plants powered by renewable energies offers a promising avenue and unique …

Hexagonal Cobalt Nanosheets for High-Performance Electrocatalytic NO Reduction to NH3

D Wang, ZW Chen, K Gu, C Chen, Y Liu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic nitric oxide (NO) reduction not only provides an extremely promising strategy
for ambient NH3 generation but also alleviates the artificially disrupted N-cycle balance …

[HTML][HTML] Construction of amorphous/crystalline heterointerfaces for enhanced electrochemical processes

B Jia, B Zhang, Z Cai, X Yang, L Li, L Guo - EScience, 2023 - Elsevier
Amorphous nanomaterials have emerged as potential candidates for energy storage and
conversion owing to their amazing physicochemical properties. Recent studies have proved …

Recent advances in interface engineering strategy for highly‐efficient electrocatalytic water splitting

Y Du, B Li, G Xu, L Wang - InfoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrogen energy generated by the electrocatalytic water splitting reaction has been
established as a renewable and clean energy carrier with ultra‐high energy density, which …

Energy-saving hydrogen production by chlorine-free hybrid seawater splitting coupling hydrazine degradation

F Sun, J Qin, Z Wang, M Yu, X Wu, X Sun… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Seawater electrolysis represents a potential solution to grid-scale production of carbon-
neutral hydrogen energy without reliance on freshwater. However, it is challenged by high …

Nanostructured metal phosphides: from controllable synthesis to sustainable catalysis

SH Li, MY Qi, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal phosphides (MPs) with unique and desirable physicochemical properties provide
promising potential in practical applications, such as the catalysis, gas/humidity sensor …

Active site recovery and NN bond breakage during hydrazine oxidation boosting the electrochemical hydrogen production

L Zhu, J Huang, G Meng, T Wu, C Chen, H Tian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Substituting hydrazine oxidation reaction for oxygen evolution reaction can result in greatly
reduced energy consumption for hydrogen production, however, the mechanism and the …