Unlocking the door to highly active ORR catalysts for PEMFC applications: polyhedron-engineered Pt-based nanocrystals

YJ Wang, W Long, L Wang, R Yuan… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are considered to be an important low-
carbon energy conversion technology, which has shown impressive performance …

Metal–organic framework composites as electrocatalysts for electrochemical sensing applications

S Kempahanumakkagari, K Vellingiri, A Deep… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous coordination polymers linked by metal ions
and ligands. With the progress of MOF research, many redox active MOFs have been …

Grain-Boundary-Dependent CO2 Electroreduction Activity

X Feng, K Jiang, S Fan, MW Kanan - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Uncovering new structure–activity relationships for metal nanoparticle (NP) electrocatalysts
is crucial for advancing many energy conversion technologies. Grain boundaries (GBs) …

Electrocatalysis of formic acid on palladium and platinum surfaces: from fundamental mechanisms to fuel cell applications

K Jiang, HX Zhang, S Zou, WB Cai - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Formic acid as a natural biomass and a CO2 reduction product has attracted considerable
interest in renewable energy exploitation, serving as both a promising candidate for …

Universality in oxygen reduction electrocatalysis on metal surfaces

V Viswanathan, HA Hansen, J Rossmeisl… - Acs …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In this work, we extend the activity volcano for oxygen reduction from the face-centered cubic
(fcc) metal (111) facet to the (100) facet. Using density functional theory calculations, we …

Pt–Ni octahedra as electrocatalysts for the ethanol electro-oxidation reaction

JE Sulaiman, S Zhu, Z Xing, Q Chang, M Shao - ACS Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Alloying Pt electrocatalysts with late transition metals (eg, Ni, Co, and Fe) is an effective
strategy to lower the catalyst cost and improve their tolerance toward CO in the anode of …

Operando insights into nanoparticle transformations during catalysis

A Bergmann, B Roldan Cuenya - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured materials play an important role in today's chemical industry, acting as
catalysts in heterogeneous thermal and electrocatalytic processes for chemical energy …

Electrochemical characterization of shape-controlled Pt nanoparticles in different supporting electrolytes

FJ Vidal-Iglesias, RM Arán-Ais, J Solla-Gullón… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The voltammetric profile of preferentially shaped platinum nanoparticles has been used to
analyze the different sites present on the surface. For the first time, this analysis has been …

Electrochemical processes on solid shaped nanoparticles with defined facets

P Strasser, M Gliech, S Kuehl, T Moeller - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This 2007 Chemistry Nobel prize update covers scientific advances of the past decade in
our understanding of electrocatalytic processes on surfaces of nanoscale shape-controlled …

Cathodic catalysts in bioelectrochemical systems for energy recovery from wastewater

XW Liu, WW Li, HQ Yu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), in which microorganisms are utilized as a self-
regenerable catalyst at the anode of an electrochemical cell to directly extract electrical …