Recent advances of noble-metal-free bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution electrocatalysts

CX Zhao, JN Liu, J Wang, D Ren, BQ Li… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen reduction and evolution reactions constitute the core process of many vital energy
storage or conversion techniques. However, the kinetic sluggishness of the oxygen redox …

Recent development of oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in acidic environment

L An, C Wei, M Lu, H Liu, Y Chen… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is one of the most promising
hydrogen production techniques. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) occurring at the …

Understanding the inter-site distance effect in single-atom catalysts for oxygen electroreduction

Z **, P Li, Y Meng, Z Fang, D **ao, G Yu - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Regulating the site density of single-atom catalysts (SACs) promotes the potential to
remarkably improve the performance of electrocatalysis, such as the oxygen reduction …

Continuous Modulation of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Activities of Single‐Atom Catalysts through p‐n Junction Rectification

Z Zhuang, L **a, J Huang, P Zhu, Y Li, C Ye… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐tuning single‐atom catalysts (SACs) to surpass their activity limit remains challenging
at their atomic scale. Herein, we exploit p‐type semiconducting character of SACs having a …

Synergistic effect of multiple vacancies to induce lattice oxygen redox in NiFe-layered double hydroxide OER catalysts

Y Zhai, X Ren, Y Sun, D Li, B Wang, SF Liu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of multiple vacancies containing cation and anion defects in NiFe layered double
hydroxide (LDH) is still worth pursuing in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) …

Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts

W Wan, Y Zhao, S Wei, CA Triana, J Li, A Arcifa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts with maximum metal utilization efficiency show great potential for
sustainable catalytic applications and fundamental mechanistic studies. We here provide a …

Long‐term stability challenges and opportunities in acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysis

Q Wang, Y Cheng, HB Tao, Y Liu, X Ma… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) has been regarded as a
promising technology for renewable hydrogen production. However, acidic oxygen evolution …

Engineering 3d–2p–4f gradient orbital coupling to enhance electrocatalytic oxygen reduction

X Wang, J Wang, P Wang, L Li, X Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of highly efficient and economical materials for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) plays a key role in practical energy conversion technologies. However, the …

Spin-Polarized Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction of Mn-Doped Perovskite Nanoplates

CC Lin, TR Liu, SR Lin, KM Boopathi… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
“Spin” has been recently reported as an important degree of electronic freedom to improve
the performance of electrocatalysts and photocatalysts. This work demonstrates the …

Regulating the Spin State of FeIII Enhances the Magnetic Effect of the Molecular Catalysis Mechanism

Z Sun, L Lin, J He, D Ding, T Wang, J Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous-phase oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the bottleneck of water splitting. The
formation of the O–O bond involves the generation of paramagnetic oxygen molecules from …