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 …

Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction: from Discrete Molecular Catalysts to Their Integrated Catalytic Materials

K Lei, B Yu Xia - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular catalysts (metal complexes), with molecularly defined uniform active sites and
atomically precise structural tailorability allowing for regulating catalytic performance …

Mechanistic insights into CO2 conversion chemistry of copper bis-(terpyridine) molecular electrocatalyst using accessible operando spectrochemistry

H Zhang, C Xu, X Zhan, Y Yu, K Zhang, Q Luo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The implementation of low-cost transition-metal complexes in CO2 reduction reaction
(CO2RR) is hampered by poor mechanistic understanding. Herein, a carbon-supported …

Role‐Specialized Division of Labor in CO2 Reduction with Doubly‐Functionalized Iron Porphyrin Atropisomers

K Guo, X Li, H Lei, H Guo, X Jin, XP Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In enzymes, the active site residues function differently to promote chemical reactions. Such
a role‐specialized division of labor has been rarely realized by synthetic catalysts. We report …

Pulsed electrolysis with a nickel molecular catalyst improves selectivity for carbon dioxide reduction

F Greenwell, B Siritanaratkul, PK Sharma… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pulsed electrolysis can significantly improve carbon dioxide reduction on metal electrodes,
but the effect of short (millisecond to seconds) voltage steps on molecular electrocatalysts is …

Co porphyrin-based metal-organic framework for hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction

Z Liang, H Guo, H Lei, R Cao - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructing molecule@ support composites is an attractive strategy to realize
heterogeneous molecular electrocatalysis. Herein, we synthesized metal-organic framework …

Challenges and opportunities of atomic-scales reactive sites in thriving electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction

P Sun, S Liu, X Zheng, G Hu, Q Zhang, X Liu, G Zheng… - Nano Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (ECO 2 RR) converts CO 2 into value-
added chemicals or fuels to realize carbon recycling as means to solve the problems of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired iron porphyrins with appended poly-pyridine/amine units for boosted electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction

J Han, N Wang, X Li, H Lei, Y Wang, H Guo, X Jin… - eScience, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing highly efficient electrocatalysts for the CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) has
attracted increasing interest in the past decade. Herein, we report on the design and …

Through‐Space Electrostatic Effects of Positively Charged Substituents on the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Q Zhang, H Lei, H Guo, Y Wang, Y Gao… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating the effects of various structural components on energy‐related small molecule
activation is of fundamental and practical significance. Herein the inhibition effect of …

Enhancing CO diffusion for selective acetate production via CO reduction on copper catalyst

J Chen, L Chen, J Chen, D Wang, Y Zhao… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The productivity of multi-carbon products in electrocatalytic CO reduction is greatly
influenced by the local concentration of CO. Herein, we present a facile strategy for …