Clean and affordable hydrogen fuel from alkaline water splitting: past, recent progress, and future prospects

ZY Yu, Y Duan, XY Feng, X Yu, MR Gao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen economy has emerged as a very promising alternative to the current hydrocarbon
economy, which involves the process of harvesting renewable energy to split water into …

Adsorption energy in oxygen electrocatalysis

J Zhang, HB Yang, D Zhou, B Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Adsorption energy (AE) of reactive intermediate is currently the most important descriptor for
electrochemical reactions (eg, water electrolysis, hydrogen fuel cell, electrochemical …

Breaking adsorption-energy scaling limitations of electrocatalytic nitrate reduction on intermetallic CuPd nanocubes by machine-learned insights

Q Gao, HS Pillai, Y Huang, S Liu, Q Mu, X Han… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR) to ammonia is an essential step
toward restoring the globally disrupted nitrogen cycle. In search of highly efficient …

Confined Ir single sites with triggered lattice oxygen redox: Toward boosted and sustained water oxidation catalysis

Z Shi, Y Wang, J Li, X Wang, Y Wang, Y Li, W Xu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acid are critical to the
development of clean energy conversion schemes. Lattice-oxygen-mediated mechanism …

A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

J Song, C Wei, ZF Huang, C Liu, L Zeng… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electricity-driven water splitting can facilitate the storage of electrical energy in the form of
hydrogen gas. As a half-reaction of electricity-driven water splitting, the oxygen evolution …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

The influence of nanoconfinement on electrocatalysis

J Wordsworth, TM Benedetti… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The use of nanoparticles and nanostructured electrodes are abundant in electrocatalysis.
These nanometric systems contain elements of nanoconfinement in different degrees …

Strategies to break the scaling relation toward enhanced oxygen electrocatalysis

ZF Huang, J Song, S Dou, X Li, J Wang, X Wang - Matter, 2019 - cell.com
The vision of a hydrogen economy relies on efficient utilization and production of hydrogen
in a hydrogen fuel cell and a water electrolyzer. In both technologies, the sluggish kinetics of …

Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

ZW Seh, J Kibsgaard, CF Dickens, IB Chorkendorff… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND With a rising global population, increasing energy demands, and
impending climate change, major concerns have been raised over the security of our energy …

Materials for solar fuels and chemicals

JH Montoya, LC Seitz, P Chakthranont, A Vojvodic… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The conversion of sunlight into fuels and chemicals is an attractive prospect for the storage
of renewable energy, and photoelectrocatalytic technologies represent a pathway by which …