Carbon‐based metal‐free ORR electrocatalysts for fuel cells: past, present, and future

L Yang, J Shui, L Du, Y Shao, J Liu, L Dai… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Replacing precious platinum with earth‐abundant materials for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) in fuel cells has been the objective worldwide for several decades. In the last …

Density functional theory for electrocatalysis

X Liao, R Lu, L **a, Q Liu, H Wang… - Energy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is a considerably promising strategy to produce fuels and high‐value chemicals through
an electrochemical conversion process in the green and sustainable energy systems …

Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries

X Hai, S **, S Mitchell, K Harrath, H Xu, DF Akl… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The stabilization of transition metals as isolated centres with high areal density on suitably
tailored carriers is crucial for maximizing the industrial potential of single-atom …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasmall Fe-doped carbon dots nanozymes for photoenhanced antibacterial therapy and wound healing

Y Liu, B Xu, M Lu, S Li, J Guo, F Chen, X **ong, Z Yin… - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogenic bacteria pose a devastating threat to public health. However, because of the
growing bacterial antibiotic resistance, there is an urgent need to develop alternative …

Deconvoluting the XPS spectra for nitrogen-doped chars: An analysis from first principles

M Ayiania, M Smith, AJR Hensley, L Scudiero… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantifying the content of surface nitrogen and oxygen containing functional groups in
amorphous nitrogen doped carbons via deconvolution of C 1s x-ray photoelectron (XPS) …

Large-scale and highly selective CO2 electrocatalytic reduction on nickel single-atom catalyst

T Zheng, K Jiang, N Ta, Y Hu, J Zeng, J Liu, H Wang - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
The scaling up of electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction for practical applications is still hindered by
a few challenges: low selectivity, small current density to maintain a reasonable selectivity …

Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction

HB Yang, SF Hung, S Liu, K Yuan, S Miao, L Zhang… - Nature energy, 2018 - nature.com
Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to chemical fuel offers a promising strategy for managing
the global carbon balance, but presents challenges for chemistry due to the lack of effective …

Template-Sacrificing Synthesis of Well-Defined Asymmetrically Coordinated Single-Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient CO2 Electrocatalytic Reduction

M Huang, B Deng, X Zhao, Z Zhang, F Li, K Li, Z Cui… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although various single-atom catalysts have been designed, atomically engineering their
coordination environment remains a great challenge. Herein, a one-pot template-sacrificing …

Establishing reactivity descriptors for platinum group metal (PGM)-free Fe–N–C catalysts for PEM fuel cells

M Primbs, Y Sun, A Roy, D Malko… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a comprehensive analysis of the catalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
reactivity of four of today's most active benchmark platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) …

Sequential co-reduction of nitrate and carbon dioxide enables selective urea electrosynthesis

Y Li, S Zheng, H Liu, Q **ong, H Yi, H Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the recent achievements in urea electrosynthesis from co-reduction of nitrogen
wastes (such as NO3−) and CO2, the product selectivity remains fairly mediocre due to the …