Recent progress of vacancy engineering for electrochemical energy conversion related applications

Z Wu, Y Zhao, W Jin, B Jia, J Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient electrocatalysts are key requirements for the development of ecofriendly
electrochemical energy‐related technologies and devices. It is widely recognized that the …

Recent progress in the development of biomass-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon

BM Matsagar, RX Yang, S Dutta, YS Ok… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review offers a focused discussion on the recent progress of biomass-derived nitrogen-
doped porous carbon (NPC) and its applications. Various synthesis methods for biomass …

High loading of single atomic iron sites in Fe–NC oxygen reduction catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

A Mehmood, M Gong, F Jaouen, A Roy, A Zitolo… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Non-precious iron-based catalysts (Fe–NCs) require high active site density to meet the
performance targets as cathode catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Site …

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

Z Jin, P Li, Y Meng, Z Fang, D Xiao, 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 …

Chemical vapour deposition of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction catalysts with full utilization of dense Fe–N4 sites

L Jiao, J Li, LLR Richard, Q Sun, T Stracensky, E Liu… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Replacing scarce and expensive platinum (Pt) with metal–nitrogen–carbon (M–N–C)
catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells has …

Activity–selectivity trends in the electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide over single-site metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts

Y Sun, L Silvioli, NR Sahraie, W Ju, J Li… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-doped carbon materials featuring atomically dispersed metal cations (M–N–C) are
an emerging family of materials with potential applications for electrocatalysis. The …

Quantifying the electrochemical active site density of precious metal-free catalysts in situ in fuel cells

RZ Snitkoff-Sol, A Friedman, HC Honig, Y Yurko… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in the development of precious-group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts for the
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cell cathodes have produced active catalysts that …

Suppressing Thermal Migration by Fine‐Tuned Metal‐Support Interaction of Iron Single‐Atom Catalyst for Efficient ORR

J Wang, C Hu, L Wang, Y Yuan, K Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically dispersed iron–nitrogen–carbon (Fe N C) catalysts have sparked great
interest by virtue of the highly active isolated FeN4 sites. The catalysts with pyrolysis …

Heterogeneous MNC Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation Reactions: Lessons from Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts: Focus Review

JS Bates, MR Johnson, F Khamespanah… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonprecious metal heterogeneous catalysts composed of first-row transition metals
incorporated into nitrogen-doped carbon matrices (MN-Cs) have been studied for decades …

Construction of Highly Active Metal‐Containing Nanoparticles and FeCo‐N4 Composite Sites for the Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

SH Yin, J Yang, Y Han, G Li, LY Wan… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐containing nanoparticles (M‐NPs) in metal/nitrogen‐doped carbon (M‐N‐C) catalysts
have been considered hostile to the acidic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The relation …