Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Reduction of CO2 to chemicals and Fuels: Thermocatalysis versus electrocatalysis

J Gao, SCS Shiong, Y Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Reducing carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals and fuels such as formic acid, carbon
monoxide, methanol, methane, ethylene, ethanol, and multi-carbon (C2+) products by …

Inter‐Metal Interaction with a Threshold Effect in NiCu Dual‐Atom Catalysts for CO2 Electroreduction

D Yao, C Tang, X Zhi, B Johannessen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dual‐atom catalysts (DACs) have become an emerging platform to provide more flexible
active sites for electrocatalytic reactions with multi‐electron/proton transfer, such as the CO2 …

Molecular tuning for electrochemical CO2 reduction

J Zhang, J Ding, Y Liu, C Su, H Yang, Y Huang, B Liu - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) offers unprecedented
opportunities to alleviate the greenhouse effect and produce valuable chemicals/fuels …

Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO over Transition Metal/N‐Doped Carbon Catalysts: The Active Sites and Reaction Mechanism

S Liang, L Huang, Y Gao, Q Wang, B Liu - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to value‐added chemicals/fuels provides a promising way to
mitigate CO2 emission and alleviate energy shortage. CO2‐to‐CO conversion involves only …

Towards molecular understanding of local chemical environment effects in electro- and photocatalytic CO2 reduction

A Wagner, CD Sahm, E Reisner - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Substantial progress has recently been made in the general understanding of the interfacial
CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) in electro-and photocatalysis, but the influence of the local …

Architectural Design for Enhanced C2 Product Selectivity in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Using Cu-Based Catalysts: A Review

C **ao, J Zhang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to value-added chemicals and fuels is a promising approach
to mitigate the greenhouse effect arising from anthropogenic CO2 emission and energy …

Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts

S Vijay, W Ju, S Brückner, SC Tsang, P Strasser… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO is the simplest product from CO2 electroreduction (CO2R), but the identity and nature of
its rate-limiting step remain controversial. Here we investigate the activity of transition metals …

Heterogeneous Single‐Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

M Li, H Wang, W Luo, PC Sherrell, J Chen… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is of great importance to tackle the
rising CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The CO2RR can be driven by renewable …

In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

J Timoshenko, B Roldan Cuenya - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the last decades, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has become an
indispensable method for probing the structure and composition of heterogeneous catalysts …