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 …

Synthesis of atomically thin sheets by the intercalation-based exfoliation of layered materials

R Yang, Y Fan, L Mei, HS Shin, D Voiry, Q Lu, J Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The intercalation-based exfoliation of layered materials is a broadly applicable strategy for
the scalable production of atomically thin (from mono-to few-layer) sheets, including …

Synergizing Hydrogen Spillover and Deprotonation by the Internal Polarization Field in a MoS2/NiPS3 Vertical Heterostructure for Boosted Water Electrolysis

Y Liu, Y Chen, Y Tian, T Sakthivel, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen spillover (HSo) has emerged to upgrade the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
activity of Pt‐support electrocatalysts, but it is not applicable to the deprotonated oxygen …

Single-site Pt-doped RuO2 hollow nanospheres with interstitial C for high-performance acidic overall water splitting

J Wang, H Yang, F Li, L Li, J Wu, S Liu, T Cheng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Realizing stable and efficient overall water splitting is highly desirable for sustainable and
efficient hydrogen production yet challenging because of the rapid deactivation of …

Amorphous Mo‐doped NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanosheets@Crystalline NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanorods for High Current‐density Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Neutral Media

Y Wang, X Li, Z Huang, H Wang, Z Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is vitally important to develop highly active, robust and low‐cost transition metal‐based
electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in neutral solution especially at large current …

Efficient acidic hydrogen evolution in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers over a sulfur-doped marcasite-type electrocatalyst

XL Zhang, PC Yu, XZ Su, SJ Hu, L Shi, YH Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Large-scale deployment of proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzers has to
overcome a cost barrier resulting from the exclusive adoption of platinum group metal (PGM) …

Nickel–molybdenum–niobium metallic glass for efficient hydrogen oxidation in hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

FY Gao, SN Liu, JC Ge, XL Zhang, L Zhu, YR Zheng… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The cost of fuel cell systems can be largely reduced by developing hydroxide exchange
membrane fuel cells (HEMFCs) based on platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts …

Sub-2 nm ultrasmall high-entropy alloy nanoparticles for extremely superior electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

G Feng, F Ning, J Song, H Shang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of sufficiently effective catalysts with extremely superior performance for
electrocatalytic hydrogen production still remains a formidable challenge, especially in …

Recent advances in carbon‐supported noble‐metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction: syntheses, structures, and properties

Y Liu, Q Wang, J Zhang, J Ding… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) that converts renewable electricity
into storable hydrogen, a sustainable and clean energy carrier, provides a promising …

Atomically reconstructed palladium metallene by intercalation-induced lattice expansion and amorphization for highly efficient electrocatalysis

M Xie, B Zhang, Z Jin, P Li, G Yu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
As an emerging class of materials with distinctive physicochemical properties, metallenes
are deemed as efficient catalysts for energy-related electrocatalytic reactions. Engineering …