Bioresource upgrade for sustainable energy, environment, and biomedicine

F Li, Y Li, KS Novoselov, F Liang, J Meng, SH Ho… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
We conceptualize bioresource upgrade for sustainable energy, environment, and
biomedicine with a focus on circular economy, sustainability, and carbon neutrality using …

Selective oxygen reduction reaction: mechanism understanding, catalyst design and practical application

S Li, L Shi, Y Guo, J Wang, D Liu, S Zhao - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a key component for many clean energy
technologies and other industrial processes. However, the low selectivity and the sluggish …

CoMoP hole transfer layer functionally enhances efficiency and stability of BiVO4 based photoanode for solar water splitting

Y Wang, Y Chen, Y Yun, X Hong, Y Huang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Engineering the hole transfer layer is a promising approach to suppress the bulk charge
recombination of photoanodes for enhancing solar water splitting performance. Herein …

Selective production of ethylene glycol at high rate via cascade catalysis

L Fan, Y Zhao, L Chen, J Chen, J Chen, H Yang… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Ethylene glycol is currently produced via an energy-intensive two-step thermocatalytic
process that results in substantial CO2 emissions. Sustainable ethylene glycol production …

Interfacial electrochemical-chemical reaction coupling for efficient olefin oxidation to glycols

SK Zhang, Y Feng, A Elgazzar, Y **a, C Qiu, Z Adler… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Coupling electrochemical and chemical reactions has been demonstrated in traditional
tandem reactor systems, but their practical applications are still distilled down to individual …

Regulating the electronic structure through charge redistribution in dense single-atom catalysts for enhanced alkene epoxidation

H **, K Zhou, R Zhang, H Cui, Y Yu, P Cui… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inter-site interaction in densely populated single-atom catalysts has been demonstrated to
have a crucial role in regulating the electronic structure of metal atoms, and consequently …

Atomically strained metal sites for highly efficient and selective photooxidation

X Li, Z Zhuang, J Chai, R Shao, J Wang, Z Jiang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Strain engineering is an attractive strategy for improving the intrinsic catalytic performance of
heterogeneous catalysts. Manipulating strain on the short-range atomic scale to the local …

Review on BiVO4-Based Photoanodes for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation: The Main Influencing Factors

D Chen, Z **e, Y Tong, Y Huang - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has been considered as a promising technology
to produce hydrogen clean energy, and the electrode material is one of the main reasons …

Synergistic V–Nb Sites Modulate Selective Alkene Epoxidation with In Situ Photogenerated H2O2 over COF@MXene Heterostructures

Y Huang, H Gu, H Zhang, X Wang, L Gao, Y Cui… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cooperative coupling of alkene epoxidation with in situ H2O2 photosynthesis is a
prospective but challenging strategy for maximizing energy utilization and fabricating value …

Interfacial Micro‐Environment of Electrocatalysis and Its Applications for Organic Electro‐Oxidation Reaction

Y Liu, Z Yang, Y Zou, S Wang, J He - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional designing principal of electrocatalyst is focused on the electronic structure
tuning, on which effectively promotes the electrocatalysis. However, as a typical kind of …