Recent advancements on designing transition metal-based carbon-supported single atom catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis: Miles to go for sustainable Zn-air …

S Das, A Kundu, T Kuila, NC Murmu - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Metal-air batteries, especially, rechargeable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) have recently
rejuvenated extensive research attention as a promising sustainable energy technology …

Materials Screening by the Descriptor Gmax(η): The Free-Energy Span Model in Electrocatalysis

S Razzaq, KS Exner - ACS catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
To move from fossil-based energy resources to a society based on renewables, electrode
materials free of precious noble metals are required to efficiently catalyze electrochemical …

Asymmetrically coupled Co Single-atom and Co nanoparticle in Double-shelled Carbon-based nanoreactor for enhanced reversible oxygen catalysis

J Hong, M Chen, L Zhang, L Qin, J Hu, X Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Simultaneous construction of size-asymmetric metal single atoms and nanoparticle active
sites in advanced and robust carrier materials is particularly important yet challenging for …

On the mechanistic complexity of oxygen evolution: potential-dependent switching of the mechanism at the volcano apex

KS Exner - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The anodic four-electron oxygen evolution reaction (OER) corresponds to the limiting
process in acidic or alkaline electrolyzers to produce gaseous hydrogen at the cathode of …

Screening of transition metal-based MOF as highly efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution

X Chen, Y Li, X Zhao - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
Designing efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
electrocatalysts is momentous for energy storage and conversion, as well as sustainable …

Importance of the walden inversion for the activity volcano plot of oxygen evolution

KS Exner - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the birth of the computational hydrogen electrode approach, it is considered that
activity trends of electrocatalysts in a homologous series can be quantified by the …

Writing the programs of programmable catalysis

YM Psarellis, ME Kavousanakis, PJ Dauenhauer… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It has long been known that non-steady state and periodic catalytic reactor operation in
terms of temperature, pressure, and composition can lead to higher overall productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of the volcano slope to comprehend activity and selectivity trends in electrocatalysis

KS Exner - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Volcano plots are a powerful tool to comprehend the trends of electrocatalysts from the same
class of materials. While initially, it was considered that the volcano slope is constant and …

On the concept of metal–hydrogen peroxide batteries: improvement over metal–air batteries?

KS Exner - Energy Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
While metal–air batteries (MABs) are considered to outperform lithium-ion batteries for
energy-storage applications, the sluggish bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis at the cathode …

Thermodynamic and kinetic investigation on electrogeneration of hydroxyl radicals for water purification

G Liu, Y Tian, H Zou, N Ren, S You - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2023 - ACS Publications
The water oxidation reaction (WOR) is of fundamental importance for the development of
promising technologies in the field of energy conversion and environmental remediation …