Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

High-entropy nanoparticles have become a rapidly growing area of research in recent years.
Because of their multielemental compositions and unique high-entropy mixing states (ie …

Supported single-metal atom catalysts (SACs) are constituted of isolated active metal
centers, which are heterogenized on inert supports such as graphene, porous carbon, and …

The energy efficiency of metal–air batteries and water‐splitting techniques is severely
constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction …

The solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI), a layer formed on the electrode surface, is essential
for electrochemical reactions in batteries and critically governs the battery stability. Active …

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has emerged as a uniquely powerful
tool for structural and functional imaging of materials on the atomic level. Driven by …

Amorphous solids such as glass, plastics and amorphous thin films are ubiquitous in our
daily life and have broad applications ranging from telecommunications to electronics and …

This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

The undesirable shuttling behavior, the sluggish redox kinetics of liquid–solid
transformation, and the large energy barrier for decomposition of Li2S have been the …

Nanostructured catalysts incorporating supported metal atoms or small clusters of defined
size and chemical composition attract considerable attention because of their potential to …