Van der Waals Electrides

J Zhou, JY You, YM Zhao, YP Feng… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Electrides make up a fascinating group of materials with unique physical and
chemical properties. In these materials, excess electrons do not behave like normal …

Transition Metal‐Gallium Intermetallic Compounds with Tailored Active Site Configurations for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis

H Zhang, C Ma, YC Wang, X Zhu, K Qu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium (Ga) with a low melting point can serve as a unique metallic solvent in the synthesis
of intermetallic compounds (IMCs). The negative formation enthalpy of transition metal‐Ga …

Nanoconfined catalytic macrostructures for advanced water remediation: From basic understanding to future application strategies

J Chang, B Yu, X Peng, P Zhang, X Xu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, nanoconfined catalytic macrostructures applied to advanced oxidation
processes (AOPs) have been rapidly developed, effectively solving the problems of …

Discovery of Bimetallic Hexagonal MBene Mo2ErB3T2.5 (T = O, F, and Cl)

Z Wang, J Su, D Feng, Y Yao, Y Yan, Y Cui… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Exfoliation from quaternary hexagonal MAB (h‐MAB) phases has been suggested as a
method for producing 2D in‐plane ordered MBenes (i‐MBenes) with the general formula …

Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange

ML Evans, J Bergsma, A Merkys, CW Andersen… - Digital …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) application
programming interface (API) empowers users with holistic access to a growing federation of …

Assessing the design rules of electrides

Z Yao, Y Zhao, W Zhang, LA Burton - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
There are three heuristic criteria commonly used to identify electrides: an apparent valence
of plus one, empty space in the crystal structure and the presence of a strongly electron …

p–d Orbital coupling in silicon-based dual-atom catalysts for enhanced CO 2 reduction: insight into electron regulation of active center and coordination atoms

M Wang, Y ** efficient scintillators with environmentally friendly compositions, adaptable band
gaps, and robust chemical stability is crucial for modern X‐ray radiography. While copper (I) …

Molten multi-phase catalytic system comprising Li–Zn alloy and LiCl–KCl salt for nitrogen fixation and ammonia synthesis at ambient pressure

X Meng, J Liu, Z Tang, B **, P Yan, X Wang… - Catalysis Science & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most important synthetic inorganic commodities. The current
industrial NH3 production is dominated by the Haber–Bosch process with high energy cost …

Electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction on anchored SnS2 nanosheets with TM2 dimers

R Xu, S Cao, T Bo, N Mu, Y Liu, W Zhou - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2024 - Elsevier
The design of efficient, high-stability nitrogen fixation catalysts remains a great challenge to
achieve electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions …