Electrochemical reaction catalyzed by carbon dots from computational investigations: functional group, dopant, and defect

M Yang, B Qin, C Si, XY Sun, B Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted increasing attention due to their unique properties.
Consequently, they have been demonstrated to be excellent multi-functional metal-free …

Synergistic effect of carbon-decorated hollow TiN architecture for boosting oxygen reduction reaction activity and durability

M Tang, Y Wang, L Luo, SY Lu, X Liu, J Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of low-cost and high-efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) is a severe challenge for the commercial application of fuel cells. Herein, a …

Hydrogen-bond induced and hetero coupling dual effects in N-doped carbon coated CrN/Ni nanosheets for efficient alkaline freshwater/seawater hydrogen evolution

Z Sun, B Chu, S Wang, L Dong, Q Pang, M Fan… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing efficient and robust non-precious-metal-based hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER) catalysts is highly desirable but remains quite challenging for alkaline …

Understanding the electrocatalysis OER and ORR activity of ultrathin spinel Mn3O4

CC Gowda, A Mathur, A Parui, P Kumbhakar… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid depletion of non-renewable sources has made us look into possible green energy
alternatives to meet energy challenges. Electrocatalytic reactions involving oxygen evolution …

Dandelion-like titanium nitride supported platinum as an efficient oxygen reduction catalyst in acidic media

Z Yuan, Y Cao, Z Zhang, Y Fang, Q Liu, D Dang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The main challenges currently existing in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs)
are (1) the slow chemical reaction kinetics at cathode oxygen reduction with high cost of …

Cr2O3 promotes the catalytic performance of Bi-based catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction to HCOOH

F Kong, C Wen, L Kang, P Gao, L Dong, B Li, H He… - Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) to formic acid is a much-anticipated way
of converting excess CO 2 to high-value-added products. Bismuth (Bi)-based materials are …

Vanadium nitride supported on N-doped carbon as high-performance ORR catalysts for Zn–air batteries

Y Fu, L Han, P Zheng, X Peng, X Xian, J Liu, X Zeng… - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is desirable to prepare low-cost non-noble metal catalysts using a simple and efficient
method. Herein, we display for the first time that nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon …

Grafting of Pd on Covalently and Noncovalently Modified N‐Doped Graphene for Electrocatalysis

KPA Kumar, O Alduhaish, SF Adil… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is considered to be a fundamental solution for procuring
clean energy. Palladium is one of the most catalytically active metals toward HER. Here, an …

Interfacial electron transfer strategy to improve the hydrogen evolution catalysis of CrP heterostructure

B Sarkar, A Parui, D Das, AK Singh, KK Nanda - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Though several Pt‐free hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts have been reported,
their employment for industry is challenging. Here, a facile pyrolysis method to obtain phase …

One-step synthesis of thin-carbon-shell-encapsulated binary cobalt chromium nitrides for oxygen reduction reaction

H Zheng, Z Chen, J Zhang, S Deng, S Shahbazi… - Applied Surface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogen fuel cells are expected to be widely used in transportation and portable power
generation. Unfortunately, sluggish cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics …