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 development and future perspectives of amorphous transition metal‐based electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

T Guo, L Li, Z Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER), as a relevant half reaction for water splitting to address the
energy crisis, has captured a great deal of attention. However, this technology has always …

Amorphous NiFe oxide‐based nanoreactors for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation

X Li, H Zhang, Q Hu, W Zhou, J Shao… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synergy engineering is an important way to enhance the kinetic activity of oxygen‐evolution‐
reaction (OER) electrocatalysts. Here, we fabricated NiFe amorphous nanoreactor (NiFe …

Structurally Disordered RuO2 Nanosheets with Rich Oxygen Vacancies for Enhanced Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia

Y Wang, H Li, W Zhou, X Zhang, B Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical reduction of nitrate pollutants to ammonia has emerged as an attractive
alternative for ammonia synthesis. Currently, many strategies have been developed for …

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 …

Parallel nanosheet arrays for industrial oxygen production

J Kang, G Liu, Q Hu, Y Huang, LM Liu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
According to the traditional nucleation theory, crystals in solution nucleate under thermal
fluctuations with random crystal orientation. Thus, nanosheet arrays grown on a substrate …

Recent Advances on Single‐Atom Catalysts for CO2 Reduction

L Liu, M Li, F Chen, H Huang - Small Structures, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous consumption of fossil energy and excessive CO2 emission severely restrict
human society. Sustainable carbon cycle is a promising technology to simultaneously …

Versatile Synthesis of Hollow Metal Sulfides via Reverse Cation Exchange Reactions for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction

R Zeng, K Lian, B Su, L Lu, J Lin, D Tang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we explore a general Cu2− xS nanocube template‐assisted and reverse cation
exchange‐mediated growth strategy for fabricating hollow multinary metal sulfide. Unlike the …

The synthesis and application of crystalline–amorphous hybrid materials

H Lan, J Wang, L Cheng, D Yu, H Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystalline–amorphous hybrid materials (CA-HMs) possess the merits of both pure
crystalline and amorphous phases. Abundant dangling bonds, unsaturated coordination …

Rationally reconstructed metal–organic frameworks as robust oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

C Zhang, Q Qi, Y Mei, J Hu, M Sun, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing metal–organic framework (MOFs) toward a designed framework structure
provides breakthrough opportunities to achieve unprecedented oxygen evolution reaction …