Robust catalysis on 2D materials encapsulating metals: concept, application, and perspective

J Deng, D Deng, X Bao - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Great endeavors are undertaken to search for low‐cost, rich‐reserve, and highly efficient
alternatives to replace precious‐metal catalysts, in order to cut costs and improve the …

The physics and chemistry of graphene-on-surfaces

G Zhao, X Li, M Huang, Z Zhen, Y Zhong… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene has demonstrated great potential in next-generation electronics due to its unique
two-dimensional structure and properties including a zero-gap band structure, high electron …

Emerging core-shell nanostructured catalysts of transition metal encapsulated by two-dimensional carbon materials for electrochemical applications

DT Tran, T Kshetri, ND Chuong, J Gautam, H Van Hien… - Nano Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of cost-effective, rich-reserve, and highly efficient substitutes to
replace the precious metal catalysts is necessary in the field of electro-catalysis to reduce …

CuAg@ Ag core–shell nanostructure encapsulated by N-doped graphene as a high-performance catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

TD Thanh, ND Chuong, HV Hien… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Development of a robust, cost-effective, and efficient catalyst is extremely necessary for
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cell applications. Herein, we reported a well-defined …

DFT Study of the oxygen reduction reaction on carbon-coated iron and iron carbide

M Reda, HA Hansen, T Vegge - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Iron carbide encapsulated in graphitic layers has recently been recognized as an active
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst made of earth-abundant elements. Here, the ORR …

Versatile electrocatalytic processes realized by Ni, Co and Fe alloyed core coordinated carbon shells

X Lu, X Tan, Q Zhang, R Daiyan, J Pan… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The storage and conversion of the surplus electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) cells
call for efficient electrochemical devices, such as water electrolyzers and metal–air batteries …

Regium bonds between M n clusters (M= Cu, Ag, Au and n= 2–6) and nucleophiles NH 3 and HCN

W Zierkiewicz, M Michalczyk, S Scheiner - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The most stable geometries of the coinage metal (or regium) atom (Cu, Ag, Au) clusters Mn
for n up to 6 are all planar, and adopt the lowest possible spin multiplicity. Clusters with even …

Probing the active sites of carbon‐encapsulated cobalt nanoparticles for oxygen reduction

X Yan, CL Dong, YC Huang, Y Jia, L Zhang… - Small …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Great effort has been contributed to exploring efficient and cost‐effective oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) catalysts for fuel cell applications in the past decades. Now various …

High-throughput chainmail catalyst FeCo@ C nanoparticle for oxygen evolution reaction

Q Wu, T Li, W Wang, Y **ao - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key part of water electrolysis for hydrogen production.
Non-noble-metal catalysts with high activity, stability, but low cost are prerequisites for …

Corrosion resistance studies of carbon-encapsulated iron nanoparticles

M Fronczak, O Łabędź, W Kaszuwara… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - Springer
The carbon coating in carbon-encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles is considered as a tight
and impermeable barrier which should perfectly protect the magnetic core material from …