Principles of designing electrocatalyst to boost reactivity for seawater splitting

X Liu, J Chi, H Mao, L Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Directly seawater electrolysis would be a transformative technology for large‐scale carbon‐
neutral hydrogenproduction without relying on pure water. However, current seawater …

High-entropy nanoparticles: Synthesis-structure-property relationships and data-driven discovery

Y Yao, Q Dong, A Brozena, J Luo, J Miao, M Chi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
High-entropy nanoparticles have become a rapidly growing area of research in recent years.
Because of their multielemental compositions and unique high-entropy mixing states (ie …

Mesoporous multimetallic nanospheres with exposed highly entropic alloy sites

Y Kang, O Cretu, J Kikkawa, K Kimoto, H Nara… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multimetallic alloys (MMAs) with various compositions enrich the materials library with
increasing diversity and have received much attention in catalysis applications. However …

A high-entropy atomic environment converts inactive to active sites for electrocatalysis

H Zhu, S Sun, J Hao, Z Zhuang, S Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To understand the mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by high-entropy-alloy (HEA)
electrocatalysts, it has become increasingly crucial to investigate the chemical nature of the …

Toward electrocatalytic methanol oxidation reaction: longstanding debates and emerging catalysts

J Wang, B Zhang, W Guo, L Wang, J Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) has lasted around 70 years, since the first
investigation in the early 1950s. Though enormous effort has been devoted in this field, it is …

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 …

High‐Entropy Prussian Blue Analogues and Their Oxide Family as Sulfur Hosts for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries

M Du, P Geng, C Pei, X Jiang, Y Shan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of high‐entropy into Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) has yet to attract
attention in the field of lithium‐sulfur battery materials. Herein, we systematically synthesize …

Electrochemical nitrate reduction: ammonia synthesis and the beyond

Y **ong, Y Wang, J Zhou, F Liu, F Hao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Natural nitrogen cycle has been severely disrupted by anthropogenic activities. The overuse
of N‐containing fertilizers induces the increase of nitrate level in surface and ground waters …

Ultrahigh stable methanol oxidation enabled by a high hydroxyl concentration on Pt clusters/MXene interfaces

J Zhu, L **a, R Yu, R Lu, J Li, R He, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Anchoring platinum catalysts on appropriate supports, eg, MXenes, is a feasible pathway to
achieve a desirable anode for direct methanol fuel cells. The authentic performance of Pt is …

Intermetallic nanocrystals for fuel-cells-based electrocatalysis

F Lin, M Li, L Zeng, M Luo, S Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis underpins the renewable electrochemical conversions for sustainability,
which further replies on metallic nanocrystals as vital electrocatalysts. Intermetallic …