The development of clean sustainable energy conversion technologies to deal with energy
shortage and environmental pollution has aroused a widespread concern. To improve the …

Ternary Pt-based nanostructures are deemed as promising anode electrocatalysts for low-
temperature and green direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) due to their bifunctional …

Vacancy defects of catalysts have been extensively studied and proven to be beneficial to
various electrocatalytic reactions. Herein, an ultra‐stable three‐dimensional PtCu nanowire …

PtRu bimetal is of particularly attractive in various electrocatalytic reactions owing to its
synergistic effect, ligand effect and strain effect. Here, PtRu nanoalloy supported on porous …

Concave nanostructures with the high-index facets and highly exposed active sites are
desirable in energy conversion technology, whereas the current synthetic strategies still …

Driven by the quest for future energy solution, faceted metal nanoparticles are being
pursued as the next generation electrocatalysts for renewable energy applications. Thanks …

Insufficient activity and instability (poisoning) of Pt-based electrocatalysts for methanol
oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions (MOR/ORR) impede the development of direct …

Over the past decades, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been greatly
developed. The oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) catalyzed by Pt-based alloys are …

Engineering the composition and/or morphology of noble metal nanocrystals is a highly
effective strategy for enhancing their electrocatalytic performance. Recently, metallenes with …

Li–O2 batteries (LOBs) operating via LiOH chemistry have attracted increasing interest
because of the higher stability of LiOH in organic electrolytes, compared to Li2O2. Several …