Emerging materials and technologies for electrocatalytic seawater splitting

H Jin, J Xu, H Liu, H Shen, H Yu, M Jaroniec… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The limited availability of freshwater in renewable energy-rich areas has led to the
exploration of seawater electrolysis for green hydrogen production. However, the complex …

Principles of designing electrocatalyst to boost reactivity for seawater splitting

X Liu, J Chi, H Mao, L Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Directly seawater electrolysis would be a transformative technology for large‐scale carbon‐
neutral hydrogenproduction without relying on pure water. However, current seawater …

Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst

J Guo, Y Zheng, Z Hu, C Zheng, J Mao, K Du… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the
shortage of freshwater resources. Seawater is abundant but must be desalinated before use …

A review of transition metal boride, carbide, pnictide, and chalcogenide water oxidation electrocatalysts

K Kawashima, RA Márquez, LA Smith… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transition metal borides, carbides, pnictides, and chalcogenides (X-ides) have emerged as
a class of materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Because of their high earth …

Electrocatalytic seawater splitting: Nice designs, advanced strategies, challenges and perspectives

J Liang, Z Li, X He, Y Luo, D Zheng, Y Wang, T Li… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
H 2 has a sufficiently high energy density and a combustion process that emits no carbon,
therefore being an appealing storable alternative to fossil fuels. With evident advantages of …

Monolayer NiIr-layered double hydroxide as a long-lived efficient oxygen evolution catalyst for seawater splitting

H You, D Wu, D Si, M Cao, F Sun… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Promoting the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with saline water is highly desired to realize
seawater splitting. This requires OER catalysts to resist serious corrosion and undesirable …

Rationally designing efficient electrocatalysts for direct seawater splitting: challenges, achievements, and promises

J Liu, S Duan, H Shi, T Wang, X Yang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Directly splitting seawater to produce hydrogen provides a promising pathway for energy
and environmental sustainability. However, current seawater splitting faces many …

Dual-doping NiMoO4 with multi-channel structure enable urea-assisted energy-saving H2 production at large current density in alkaline seawater

L Guo, J Chi, J Zhu, T Cui, J Lai, L Wang - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seawater electrolysis is an efficient method for producing carbon-neutral hydrogen;
however, it is hindered by high energy cost and chlorine evolution reaction. In this study, we …

Self‐supported electrocatalysts for practical water electrolysis

H Yang, M Driess, PW Menezes - Advanced energy materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the years, significant advances have been made to boost the efficiency of water
splitting by carefully designing economic electrocatalysts with augmented conductivity, more …

Energy-saving hydrogen production by chlorine-free hybrid seawater splitting coupling hydrazine degradation

F Sun, J Qin, Z Wang, M Yu, X Wu, X Sun… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Seawater electrolysis represents a potential solution to grid-scale production of carbon-
neutral hydrogen energy without reliance on freshwater. However, it is challenged by high …