Strain engineering in electrocatalysts: fundamentals, progress, and perspectives

X Yang, Y Wang, X Tong, N Yang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Strain engineering of nanomaterials, namely, designing, tuning, or controlling surface strains
of nanomaterials is an effective strategy to achieve outstanding performance in different …

Surface engineering for stable electrocatalysis

VH Do, JM Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, significant progress has been achieved in rational developments of
electrocatalysts through constructing novel atomistic structures and modulating catalytic …

A percolation theory for designing corrosion-resistant alloys

Y ** new methods that reveal the structure of electrode materials under polarization
is key to constructing robust structure–property relationships. However, many existing …

Dynamics of electrochemical Pt dissolution at atomic and molecular levels

PP Lopes, D Tripkovic, PFBD Martins… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding and controlling electrochemical interfaces at atomic and molecular levels
have transformed electrochemistry into a science with clearly defined fundamental principles …

Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging for In Situ Studies in Electrocatalysis

RA Vicente, IT Neckel, SKRS Sankaranarayanan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis is at the heart of a broad range of physicochemical applications that play an
important role in the present and future of a sustainable economy. Among the myriad of …

Engineering solar cells based on correlative X-ray microscopy

M Stuckelberger, B West, T Nietzold, B Lai… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - cambridge.org
In situ and operando measurement techniques combined with nanoscale resolution have
proven invaluable in multiple fields of study. We argue that evaluating device performance …

Electrochemically induced strain evolution in Pt–Ni alloy nanoparticles observed by bragg coherent diffraction imaging

T Kawaguchi, V Komanicky, V Latyshev, W Cha… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strain is known to enhance the activity of the oxygen reduction reaction in catalytic platinum
alloy nanoparticles, whose inactivity is the primary impediment to efficient fuel cells and …

Oxidation induced strain and defects in magnetite crystals

K Yuan, SS Lee, W Cha, A Ulvestad, H Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Oxidation of magnetite (Fe3O4) has broad implications in geochemistry, environmental
science and materials science. Spatially resolving strain fields and defect evolution during …