A comprehensive review on the electrochemical parameters and recent material development of electrochemical water splitting electrocatalysts

A Raveendran, M Chandran, R Dhanusuraman - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical splitting of water is an appealing solution for energy storage and conversion
to overcome the reliance on depleting fossil fuel reserves and prevent severe deterioration …

High-entropy alloys in electrocatalysis: from fundamentals to applications

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprising five or more elements in near-equiatomic
proportions have attracted ever increasing attention for their distinctive properties, such as …

Regulating electronic states of nitride/hydroxide to accelerate kinetics for oxygen evolution at large current density

P Zhai, C Wang, Y Zhao, Y Zhang, J Gao, L Sun… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rational design efficient transition metal-based electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution
reaction (OER) is critical for water splitting. However, industrial water-alkali electrolysis …

Electrocatalytic upcycling of biomass and plastic wastes to biodegradable polymer monomers and hydrogen fuel at high current densities

Y Yan, H Zhou, SM Xu, J Yang, P Hao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transformation of biomass and plastic wastes to value-added chemicals and fuels is
considered an upcycling process that is beneficial to resource utilization. Electrocatalysis …

Unusual Sabatier principle on high entropy alloy catalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions

ZW Chen, J Li, P Ou, JE Huang, Z Wen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Sabatier principle is widely explored in heterogeneous catalysis, graphically depicted in
volcano plots. The most desirable activity is located at the peak of the volcano, and further …

Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on Pt

P Li, Y Jiang, Y Hu, Y Men, Y Liu, W Cai, S Chen - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the large kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis, that is, the
approximately two orders of magnitude decrease in reaction kinetics when moving from acid …

Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting

J Chen, C Chen, M Qin, B Li, B Lin, Q Mao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Noble metal electrocatalysts (eg, Pt, Ru, etc.) suffer from sluggish kinetics of water
dissociation for the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen in alkaline and …

Anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzers and fuel cells

Y Yang, P Li, X Zheng, W Sun, SX Dou, T Ma… - Chemical society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Anion-exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyzers (AEMWEs) and fuel cells (AEMFCs)
are technologies that, respectively, achieve transformation and utilization of renewable …

Arming Ru with Oxygen‐Vacancy‐Enriched RuO2 Sub‐Nanometer Skin Activates Superior Bifunctionality for pH‐Universal Overall Water Splitting

Y Li, W Wang, M Cheng, Y Feng, X Han… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water electrolysis has been expected to assimilate the renewable yet intermediate energy‐
derived electricity for green H2 production. However, current benchmark anodic catalysts of …

Local reaction environment in electrocatalysis

C Chen, H **, P Wang, X Sun, M Jaroniec… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Beyond conventional electrocatalyst engineering, recent studies have unveiled the
effectiveness of manipulating the local reaction environment in enhancing the performance …