Microenvironment engineering of single/dual‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic application

Y Gao, B Liu, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single/dual‐metal atoms supported on carbon matrix can be modulated by coordination
structure and neighboring active sites. Precisely designing the geometric and electronic …

Long‐range interactions in diatomic catalysts boosting electrocatalysis

WH Li, J Yang, D Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous presence of two active metal centres in diatomic catalysts (DACs) leads to
the occurrence of specific interactions between active sites. Such interactions, referred to as …

Stabilizing low‐valence single atoms by constructing metalloid tungsten carbide supports for efficient hydrogen oxidation and evolution

L Wang, Z Xu, CH Kuo, J Peng, F Hu, L Li… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Designing novel single‐atom catalysts (SACs) supports to modulate the electronic structure
is crucial to optimize the catalytic activity, but rather challenging. Herein, a general strategy …

Electrocatalytic urea synthesis with 63.5% Faradaic efficiency and 100% N‐selectivity via one‐step C− N coupling

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, K Cheng… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis via coupling N2 and CO2 provides an effective route to
mitigate energy crisis and close carbon footprint. However, the difficulty on breaking N≡ N is …

2D MOF‐assisted pyrolysis‐displacement‐alloying synthesis of high‐entropy alloy nanoparticles library for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen oxidation

Z Qiu, Y Li, Y Gao, Z Meng, Y Sun, Y Bai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multimetallic alloy nanoparticles (NPs) have received considerable attention in various
applications due to their compositional variability and exceptional properties. However, the …

Multi-atom cluster catalysts for efficient electrocatalysis

L Sun, V Reddu, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-atom cluster catalysts have turned out to be novel heterogeneous catalysts with atomic
dispersion for electrochemical energy applications. Beyond a simple combination of single …

Photo-induced synthesis of heteronuclear dual-atom catalysts

QP Zhao, WX Shi, J Zhang, ZY Tian, ZM Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dual-atom catalysts (DACs) have garnered significant interest due to their high atom
utilization and synergistic catalysis. However, there is no universal synthetic method to …

Carbon nanocage with maximum utilization of atomically dispersed iron as efficient oxygen electroreduction nanoreactor

X Tang, Y Wei, W Zhai, Y Wu, T Hu, K Yuan… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As key parameters of electrocatalysts, the density and utilization of active sites determine the
electrocatalytic performance toward oxygen reduction reaction. Unfortunately, prevalent …

Atomically dispersed Iridium on Mo2C as an efficient and stable alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst

J Fang, H Wang, Q Dang, H Wang, X Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells (HEMFCs) have the advantages of using cost-
effective materials, but hindered by the sluggish anodic hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) …

Unconventional bilateral compressive strained Ni–Ir interface synergistically accelerates alkaline hydrogen oxidation

T Tang, XZ Liu, X Luo, Z Xue, HR Pan… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) involves the coupling of adsorbed
hydrogen (Had) and hydroxyl (OHad) species and is thus orders of magnitude slower than …