Atomically dispersed materials: Ideal catalysts in atomic era

T Gan, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Catalysts can accelerate the chemical reaction rate and effectively promote the molecules
transformation, which is of great significance in the research of chemical industry and …

Metal–organic framework supercapacitors: challenges and opportunities

SJ Shin, JW Gittins, CJ Balhatchet… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Supercapacitors offer superior energy storage capabilities than traditional capacitors,
making them useful for applications such as electric vehicles and rapid large‐scale energy …

Molecular understanding of the critical role of alkali metal cations in initiating CO2 electroreduction on Cu(100) surface

Z Zhang, H Li, Y Shao, L Gan, F Kang, W Duan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular understanding of the solid–liquid interface is challenging but essential to
elucidate the role of the environment on the kinetics of electrochemical reactions. Alkali …

Nanometre-resolved observation of electrochemical microenvironment formation at the nanoparticle–ligand interface

Y Shan, X Zhao, M Fonseca Guzman, A Jana… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
The dynamic response of surface ligands on nanoparticles (NPs) to external stimuli critically
determines the functionality of NP–ligand systems. For example, in electrocatalysis the …

Surface-immobilized cross-linked cationic polyelectrolyte enables CO2 reduction with metal cation-free acidic electrolyte

HG Qin, YF Du, YY Bai, FZ Li, X Yue, H Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrochemical CO2 reduction in acidic electrolytes is a promising strategy to achieve high
utilization efficiency of CO2. Although alkali cations in acidic electrolytes play a vital role in …

Understanding cation effects on the hydrogen evolution reaction

JT Bender, AS Petersen, FC Østergaard… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is known to be influenced by the identity of alkali
metal cations in the electrolyte. But a clear understanding of this behavior has not been …

Cation-Coordinated Inner-Sphere CO2 Electroreduction at Au–Water Interfaces

X Qin, T Vegge, HA Hansen - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is a promising technology for the clean
energy economy. Numerous efforts have been devoted to enhancing the mechanistic …

Effects of electrolyte ionic species on electrocatalytic reactions: advances, challenges, and perspectives

X Lu, W Tu, Y Zhou, Z Zou - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrolytes have a profound impact on the chemical environment of electrocatalysis,
influencing the reaction rate and selectivity of products. Experimental and theoretical studies …

Promoting Cu-catalysed CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products by tuning the activity of H2O

H Zhang, J Gao, D Raciti, AS Hall - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The electrochemical reduction of CO2 to valuable C2+ feedstocks is hindered by the
competitive formation of C1 products and H2 evolution. Here we tuned the H2O …

Understanding the complexity in bridging thermal and electrocatalytic methanation of CO 2

H Kang, J Ma, S Perathoner, W Chu, G Centi… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The selective methanation of CO2 is an important research area to meet the net-zero
emission targets. Furthermore, it is crucial to develop solutions to achieve carbon neutrality …