Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement

Y He, S Liu, C Priest, Q Shi, G Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The urgent need to address the high-cost issue of proton-exchange membrane fuel cell
(PEMFC) technologies, particularly for transportation applications, drives the development of …

Achievements, challenges and perspectives on cathode catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells for transportation

XX Wang, MT Swihart, G Wu - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells can use hydrogen and air to power clean electric
vehicles. However, technical barriers including high cost, limited lifetime and insufficient …

Atomically dispersed manganese catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells

J Li, M Chen, DA Cullen, S Hwang, M Wang, B Li… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Platinum group metal (PGM)-free catalysts that are also iron free are highly desirable for the
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells, as they avoid …

High-performance fuel cell cathodes exclusively containing atomically dispersed iron active sites

H Zhang, HT Chung, DA Cullen, S Wagner… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with
atomically dispersed FeN4 sites have emerged as a potential replacement for low-PGM …

Low‐PGM and PGM‐free catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: stability challenges and material solutions

L Du, V Prabhakaran, X Xie, S Park, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fuel cells as an attractive clean energy technology have recently regained popularity in
academia, government, and industry. In a mainstream proton exchange membrane (PEM) …

Engineering local coordination environments of atomically dispersed and heteroatom‐coordinated single metal site electrocatalysts for clean energy‐conversion

Y Zhu, J Sokolowski, X Song, Y He… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon‐based heteroatom‐coordinated single‐atom catalysts (SACs) are promising
candidates for energy‐related electrocatalysts because of their low‐cost, tunable catalytic …

Metal-organic framework-derived nitrogen-doped highly disordered carbon for electrochemical ammonia synthesis using N2 and H2O in alkaline electrolytes

S Mukherjee, DA Cullen, S Karakalos, K Liu, H Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is considered an important chemical for both agriculture fertilizer and
renewable energy. The conventional Haber-Bosh process to produce NH 3 is energy …

A general carboxylate‐assisted approach to boost the ORR performance of ZIF‐derived Fe/N/C catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Y Li, P Zhang, L Wan, Y Zheng, X Qu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An Fe/N/C catalyst derived from the pyrolysis of metal–organic frameworks, for
example, a zeolitic‐imidazolate‐framework‐8 (ZIF‐8), has been regarded as one of the most …

Atomically dispersed metal catalysts for oxygen reduction

M Chen, Y He, JS Spendelow, G Wu - ACS Energy Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of atomically dispersed and
nitrogen-coordinated metal site (eg, Fe, Co, or Mn) catalysts makes them promising low-cost …

3D porous graphitic nanocarbon for enhancing the performance and durability of Pt catalysts: a balance between graphitization and hierarchical porosity

Z Qiao, S Hwang, X Li, C Wang… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon supports used in oxygen-reduction cathode catalysts for proton exchange
membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are vulnerable to corrosion under harsh operating …