Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Microenvironment engineering of single/dual‐atom catalysts for electrocatalytic application

Y Gao, B Liu, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single/dual‐metal atoms supported on carbon matrix can be modulated by coordination
structure and neighboring active sites. Precisely designing the geometric and electronic …

Lattice Strain and Schottky Junction Dual Regulation Boosts Ultrafine Ruthenium Nanoparticles Anchored on a N-Modified Carbon Catalyst for H2 Production

Z Jiang, S Song, X Zheng, X Liang, Z Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium-based materials are considered great promising candidates to replace Pt-based
catalysts for hydrogen production in alkaline conditions. Herein, we adopt a facile method to …

Water splitting performance of metal and non-metal-doped transition metal oxide electrocatalysts

AH Al-Naggar, NM Shinde, JS Kim, RS Mane - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transition metal oxide electrocatalysts have received significant research interest toward the
advancement of environmentally acceptable electrochemical applications and systems …

Innovative strategies for overall water splitting using nanostructured transition metal electrocatalysts

A Ali, F Long, PK Shen - Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Electrochemical water splitting is regarded as the most auspicious technology for renewable
sources, transport, and storage of hydrogen energy. Currently, noble Pt metal and noble …

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 …

CeO2 as an “electron pump” to boost the performance of Co4N in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution and biomass oxidation valorization

P Zhou, G Hai, G Zhao, R Li, X Huang, Y Lu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing multifunctional electrocatalysts with excellent hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural oxidation reaction …

Schottky heterojunction nanosheet array achieving high‐current‐density oxygen evolution for industrial water splitting electrolyzers

Q Wen, K Yang, D Huang, G Cheng, X Ai… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Versatile catalyst systems with large current density under industrial conditions are pivotal to
give impetus to hydrogen energy from fundamental to practical applications. Herein, a …

Progress and perspectives for solar‐driven water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen

H Zhao, ZY Yuan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven water electrolysis has been considered to be a promising route to produce
green hydrogen, because the conventional water electrolysis system is not completely …

Carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts: from oxygen reduction to multifunctional electrocatalysis

C Hu, R Paul, Q Dai, L Dai - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the discovery of N-doped carbon nanotubes as the first carbon-based metal-free
electrocatalyst (C-MFEC) for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in 2009, C-MFECs have …