Beyond conventional electrocatalyst engineering, recent studies have unveiled the
effectiveness of manipulating the local reaction environment in enhancing the performance …

Heterogeneous electrocatalysis lies at the center of various technologies that could help
enable a sustainable future. However, its complexity makes it challenging to accurately and …

Interfaces between a liquid and a solid (L–S) are the most important surface science in
chemistry, catalysis, energy, and even biology. Formation of an electric double layer (EDL) …

Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) plays an essential role in a wide range of
electrocatalytic processes. A vast array of theoretical and computational methods have been …

Structures and processes at water/metal interfaces play an important technological role in
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photoconversion, sensors, and corrosion …

Electrocatalysis, whose reaction venue locates at the catalyst–electrolyte interface, is
controlled by the electron transfer across the electric double layer, envisaging a mechanistic …

Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations
to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable …

Sustainable energy generation calls for a shift away from centralized, high-temperature,
energy-intensive processes to decentralized, low-temperature conversions that can be …

Structures of the electric double layer (EDL) at electrocatalytic interfaces, which are
modulated by the material properties, the electrolyte characteristics (eg, the pH, the types …

While Fe–N–C materials exhibit great potential for catalyzing the oxygen reduction reaction
(ORR), their activity origin, especially the significant activity difference in acidic and alkaline …