Heteroatom doping: an effective way to boost sodium ion storage

Y Li, M Chen, B Liu, Y Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In response to the change of energy landscape, sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are becoming
one of the most promising power sources for the post‐lithium‐ion battery (LIB) era due to the …

Compositional engineering of sulfides, phosphides, carbides, nitrides, oxides, and hydroxides for water splitting

Y Sun, T Zhang, C Li, K Xu, Y Li - Journal of materials chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Global environmental and energy crises have attracted wide attention and led to ongoing
efforts to search for sustainable energy storage and conversion systems that can meet the …

Bimetallic iron-iridium alloy nanoparticles supported on nickel foam as highly efficient and stable catalyst for overall water splitting at large current density

F Shen, Y Wang, G Qian, W Chen, W Jiang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, FeIr bimetallic alloy self-supported on nickel foam is prepared by hydrothermal
method, with average particle size of 2.17 nm and the Ir-loading is only 0.936 wt.%. It …

Salt template-assisted in situ construction of Ru nanoclusters and porous carbon: excellent catalysts toward hydrogen evolution, ammonia-borane hydrolysis, and 4 …

R Ding, Q Chen, Q Luo, L Zhou, Y Wang, Y Zhang… - Green …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable yet effective manufacture of supported metal nanoclusters (NCs) with high
performance for catalytic applications is worthwhile but remains a big challenge. Here, we …

Controlled colloidal metal nanoparticles and nanoclusters: recent applications as cocatalysts for improving photocatalytic water-splitting activity

T Kawawaki, Y Mori, K Wakamatsu, S Ozaki… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, research on the use of metal nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoclusters (NCs)
synthesized by liquid-phase reduction in water-splitting photocatalysts has been actively …

Trimetallic PtRhCo petal-assembled alloyed nanoflowers as efficient and stable bifunctional electrocatalyst for ethylene glycol oxidation and hydrogen evolution …

Y Chen, XX Zheng, XY Huang, AJ Wang… - Journal of colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Controllable synthesis of multimetal nanocrystals with hierarchical structures and tunable
compositions are feasible to steeply improve the catalytic properties in fuel cells. Herein …

Boron-rich environment boosting ruthenium boride on B, N doped carbon outperforms platinum for hydrogen evolution reaction in a universal pH range

Y Qiao, P Yuan, CW Pao, Y Cheng, Z Pu, Q Xu, S Mu… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing cost-effective and stable electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
in a universal pH range is highly desirable toward renewable energy systems but remains a …

Efficient hydrogen recovery with CoP-NF as cathode in microbial electrolysis cells

D Liang, L Zhang, W He, C Li, J Liu, S Liu, HS Lee… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The emerging microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is of great potential for energy recovery from
wastewater as hydrogen, while the application of MECs required cost-effective, scalable …

Robust non-Pt noble metal-based nanomaterials for electrocatalytic hydrogen generation

J Yu, Y Dai, Q He, C Cheng, Z Shao, M Ni - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Currently, the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) has been a key point of
focus for developing sustainable hydrogen economy, but it is hampered by sluggish reaction …

Urea-assisted enhanced electrocatalytic activity of MoS 2–Ni 3 S 2 for overall water splitting

Y Liu, Y Yu, Z Mu, Y Wang, U Ali, S Jing… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The design and synthesis of non-precious metal-based bifunctional electrocatalysts with low
cost and high performance for hydrogen and oxygen evolution in water are of great …