Applications of 2D MXenes in energy conversion and storage systems

J Pang, RG Mendes, A Bachmatiuk, L Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), a family of two-dimensional (2D) inorganic
compounds, are materials composed of a few atomic layers of transition metal carbides …

MOF-derived single-atom catalysts: The next frontier in advanced oxidation for water treatment

P Xia, C Wang, Q He, Z Ye, I Sirés - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have emerged as a new frontier in the
field of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), since they allow combining the advantages of …

Generation of subnanometric platinum with high stability during transformation of a 2D zeolite into 3D

L Liu, U Diaz, R Arenal, G Agostini, P Concepcion… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Single metal atoms and metal clusters have attracted much attention thanks to their
advantageous capabilities as heterogeneous catalysts. However, the generation of stable …

Earth‐rich transition metal phosphide for energy conversion and storage

M Sun, H Liu, J Qu, J Li - Advanced Energy Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐cost and resourceful transition metal phosphides (TMPs) have gradually received wide
acceptance in the energy industry through exhibiting comparable catalytic activity and long …

Functional role of single-atom catalysts in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: current developments and future challenges

P Aggarwal, D Sarkar, K Awasthi… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are currently regarded as the next generation of
heterogeneous catalysts for electrochemical applications due to their distinct benefits of …

Environmental materials beyond and below the nanoscale: Single-atom catalysts

S Weon, D Huang, K Rigby, C Chu, X Wu… - Acs Es&T …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has driven scientific advances in catalytic materials and processes over the
past few decades. Unique physicochemical and electronic properties that emerge when …

Electron Microscopy of Solid Catalysts Transforming from a Challenge to a Toolbox

DS Su, B Zhang, R Schlögl - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nanoscience is a cross-sectional interdisciplinary field of research that can hardly be
overestimated in its enabling character for technologies in many application areas. A …

Complete miscibility of immiscible elements at the nanometre scale

PC Chen, M Gao, CA McCandler, C Song, J Jin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the mixing behaviour of elements in a multielement material is important to
control its structure and property. When the size of a multielement material is decreased to …

Plasmonic photoelectrocatalysis in copper–platinum core–shell nanoparticle lattices

S Deng, B Zhang, P Choo, PJM Smeets, TW Odom - Nano letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
This paper reports that strongly coupled bimetallic core–shell nanoparticle arrays show
photoelectrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reactions (HER). We fabricated large …

Single Co‐Atoms as Electrocatalysts for Efficient Hydrazine Oxidation Reaction

RG Kadam, T Zhang, D Zaoralová, M Medveď… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom catalysts (SACs) have aroused great attention due to their high atom efficiency
and unprecedented catalytic properties. A remaining challenge is to anchor the single atoms …