Defect engineering for fuel‐cell electrocatalysts

W Li, D Wang, Y Zhang, L Tao, T Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The commercialization of fuel cells, such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells and direct
methanol/formic acid fuel cells, is hampered by their poor stability, high cost, fuel crossover …

Confinement engineering of electrocatalyst surfaces and interfaces

W Li, L Zhao, X Jiang, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The electrocatalytic performance of nanomaterials can be enhanced by fine‐tuning the
coordination environment and number of low‐coordination atoms. Confinement engineering …

Water electrolysis for hydrogen production: from hybrid systems to self-powered/catalyzed devices

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, WW Tian… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrocatalytic splitting of water holds great promise as a sustainable and
environmentally friendly technology for hydrogen production. However, the sluggish kinetics …

Methanol upgrading coupled with hydrogen product at large current density promoted by strong interfacial interactions

Y Hao, D Yu, S Zhu, CH Kuo, YM Chang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Anodic organic upgrading offers a promising strategy to produce value-added chemicals
and to facilitate coupled hydrogen production but it is still challenging in terms of long-term …

Coordination environment tuning of nickel sites by oxyanions to optimize methanol electro-oxidation activity

S Li, R Ma, J Hu, Z Li, L Liu, X Wang, Y Lu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To achieve zero-carbon economy, advanced anode catalysts are desirable for hydrogen
production and biomass upgrading powered by renewable energy. Ni-based non-precious …

Identification and manipulation of dynamic active site deficiency-induced competing reactions in electrocatalytic oxidation processes

R Lin, L Kang, T Zhao, J Feng, V Celorrio… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic organic compound oxidation reactions (OCORs) have been intensively
studied for energy and environmentally benign applications. However, relatively little effort …

Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis

H Hu, X Wang, JP Attfield, M Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrocatalytic high-throughput seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production is a
promising green energy technology that offers possibilities for environmental and energy …

Fluorination-enabled reconstruction of NiFe electrocatalysts for efficient water oxidation

Q Xu, H Jiang, X Duan, Z Jiang, Y Hu, SW Boettcher… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Developing low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts to accelerate oxygen evolution reaction
(OER) kinetics is vital for water and carbon-dioxide electrolyzers. The fastest-known water …

Selective ethylene glycol oxidation to formate on nickel selenide with simultaneous evolution of hydrogen

J Li, L Li, X Ma, X Han, C Xing, X Qi, R He… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need for cost‐effective strategies to produce hydrogen from renewable
net‐zero carbon sources using renewable energies. In this context, the electrochemical …

Boosting hydrogen evolution by methanol oxidation reaction on Ni-based electrocatalysts: from fundamental electrochemistry to perspectives

J Li, L Li, J Wang, A Cabot, Y Zhu - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen production via electrocatalytic water splitting is hampered by the slow kinetics of
the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). To address this limitation, the electrochemical …