Microenvironment engineering of single/dual‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic application

Y Gao, B Liu, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single/dual‐metal atoms supported on carbon matrix can be modulated by coordination
structure and neighboring active sites. Precisely designing the geometric and electronic …

Atomic-level reactive sites for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia under ambient conditions

Y Yang, W Zhang, X Tan, K Jiang, S Zhai, Z Li - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is an integral part to modern agriculture and industry. As an economical
and sustainable process to convert nitrogen to NH 3 under ambient conditions, the …

Carbon‐nanotube‐bridging strategy for integrating single fe atoms and NiCo nanoparticles in a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst toward high‐efficiency and long …

S Ding, L He, L Fang, Y Zhu, T Li, Z Lyu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of highly efficient and robust bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen
reduction (ORR) and evolution reactions (OER) is the key issue for realizing high …

Enhancing interfacial electric field in WO3-C3N4 through fermi level modulation for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction

X Wang, J **e, S Li, Z Yuan, Y Sun, X Gao… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (ENRR) has been identified as a promising
method for environmentally friendly NH 3 production under ambient conditions. The …

Novel (Pt‐Ox)‐(Co‐Oy) Nonbonding Active Structures on Defective Carbon from Oxygen‐Rich Coal Tar Pitch for Efficient HER and ORR

J Zhang, M Wang, T Wan, H Shi, A Lv… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic‐scale utilization and coordination structure of Pt electrocatalyst is extremely crucial to
decrease loading mass and maximize activity for hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) and …

Biaxially‐Strained Phthalocyanine at Polyoxometalate@ Carbon Nanotube Heterostructure Boosts Oxygen Reduction Catalysis

S Zhu, L Ding, X Zhang, K Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) with unique FeN4 site has attracted increasing interests as a
promising non‐precious catalyst. However, the plane symmetric structure endows FePc with …

Progress of experimental and computational catalyst design for electrochemical nitrogen fixation

Z Chen, C Liu, L Sun, T Wang - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Large-scale ammonia synthesis via the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (eNRR)
under mild reaction conditions represents a green prospect for agriculture, industry, and …

One-step formation of urea from carbon dioxide and nitrogen using water microdroplets

X Song, C Basheer, Y **a, J Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Water (H2O) microdroplets are sprayed onto a graphite mesh covered with a CuBi2O4
coating using a 1: 1 mixture of N2 and CO2 as the nebulizing gas. The resulting …

Diatomic iron with a pseudo-phthalocyanine coordination environment for highly efficient oxygen reduction over 150,000 cycles

Z Huang, M Li, X Yang, T Zhang, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atomically dispersed Fe–N–C catalysts emerged as promising alternatives to commercial
Pt/C for the oxygen reduction reaction. However, the majority of Fe–N–C catalysts showed …

Boosting electrochemical nitrogen reduction via axial coordination engineering on single‐iron‐atom catalysts

Y Yang, H Wang, X Tan, K Jiang, S Zhai… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic nitrogen (N2) reduction reaction (NRR) presents a sustainable alternative to
the Haber–Bosch process for ammonia (NH3) synthesis. Iron phthalocyanine (FePc) is …