State-of-the-art and developmental trends in platinum group metal-free cathode catalyst for anion exchange membrane fuel cell (AEMFC)

MM Hossen, MS Hasan, MRI Sardar… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
AEMFC is becoming a prominent technology in portable energy sources. In an attempt to
make it economical, non-platinum catalysts are necessary to recruit in the application …

Carbon-based electrocatalysts for sustainable energy applications

J Wang, H Kong, J Zhang, Y Hao, Z Shao… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon-based materials have multiple advantages including abundant sources, tunable
molecular structures, high electronic conductivity, and environmental compatibility. Rapidly …

Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: from the perspective of nanoarchitectonics

M Kim, KL Firestein, JFS Fernando, X Xu, H Lim… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we present microporous carbon (MPC), hollow microporous carbon (HMC) and
hierarchically porous carbon (HPC) to demonstrate the importance of strategical designing …

Probing the oxygen reduction reaction intermediates and dynamic active site structures of molecular and pyrolyzed Fe–N–C electrocatalysts by in situ Raman …

J Wei, D **a, Y Wei, X Zhu, J Li, L Gan - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
While FeN4 species are widely suggested as the active sites of noble-metal-free Fe–N–C
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts, the ORR mechanism, particularly the rate …

N-doped catalysts built by iron-based metal–organic framework efficiently activated peroxymonosulfate for the tetracycline degradation

Y Yang, B Jie, J Ye, F Gan, S Yu, H Lin… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tetracycline, one of the most commonly used antibiotics, has emerged as a critical concern
in water pollution treatment. N-doped iron-based catalysts were prepared by one-step …

P-block single-metal-site tin/nitrogen-doped carbon fuel cell cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

F Luo, A Roy, L Silvioli, DA Cullen, A Zitolo… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
This contribution reports the discovery and analysis of ap-block Sn-based catalyst for the
electroreduction of molecular oxygen in acidic conditions at fuel cell cathodes; the catalyst is …

Carbon‐based metal‐free ORR electrocatalysts for fuel cells: past, present, and future

L Yang, J Shui, L Du, Y Shao, J Liu, L Dai… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Replacing precious platinum with earth‐abundant materials for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) in fuel cells has been the objective worldwide for several decades. In the last …

Oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis in neutral media for bioelectrochemical systems

C Santoro, P Bollella, B Erable, P Atanassov, D Pant - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is an electrochemical process of the utmost
importance in energy conversion and storage, corrosion and chemical technologies. The …

Elucidating electrochemical nitrate and nitrite reduction over atomically-dispersed transition metal sites

E Murphy, Y Liu, I Matanovic, M Rüscher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic reduction of waste nitrates (NO3−) enables the synthesis of ammonia (NH3)
in a carbon neutral and decentralized manner. Atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon …

Heterogeneous MNC Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation Reactions: Lessons from Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts: Focus Review

JS Bates, MR Johnson, F Khamespanah… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonprecious metal heterogeneous catalysts composed of first-row transition metals
incorporated into nitrogen-doped carbon matrices (MN-Cs) have been studied for decades …