Critical review of Pd-catalyzed reduction process for treatment of waterborne pollutants

W Ran, H Zhao, X Zhang, S Li, JF Sun… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Catalyzed reduction processes have been recognized as important and supplementary
technologies for water treatment, with the specific aims of resource recovery, enhancement …

Tuning electrode reactivity through organometallic complexes

Y Shen, Y Mu, D Wang, C Liu… - ACS applied materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of molecularly modified electrodes in catalysis heralds a new paradigm in
designing chemical transformations by allowing control of catalytic activity. Herein, we …

Free-standing membrane incorporating single-atom catalysts for ultrafast electroreduction of low-concentration nitrate

X Wang, X Wu, W Ma, X Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The release of wastewaters containing relatively low levels of nitrate (NO3−) results in
sufficient contamination to induce harmful algal blooms and to elevate drinking water NO3 …

Active Sites of Cobalt Phthalocyanine in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol

CL Rooney, M Lyons, Y Wu, G Hu, M Wang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many metal coordination compounds catalyze CO2 electroreduction to CO, but cobalt
phthalocyanine hybridized with conductive carbon such as carbon nanotubes is currently …

Titanium oxide electrocatalytic membrane filtration:“two faces” of oxygen vacancies in generation and transformation of reactive oxygen species

Y Sun, D Lu, H Zhang, G Liu, Y Hu… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Oxygen vacancies are crucial to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the
metal oxide electrocatalytic membrane (MO x EM) process. Here, using cathodic TiO x EM …

Enhanced hydrosaturation selectivity and electron transfer for electrocatalytic chlorophenols hydrogenation on Ru sites

Z Gu, N Ni, G He, Y Shan, K Wu, C Hu… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation is acknowledged as a promising strategy for chlorophenol
dechlorination. However, the widely used Pd catalysts exhibit drawbacks, such as high costs …

Nanocurvature-induced field effects enable control over the activity of single-atom electrocatalysts

B Wang, M Wang, Z Fan, C Ma, S Xi, LY Chang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tuning interfacial electric fields provides a powerful means to control electrocatalyst activity.
Importantly, electric fields can modify adsorbate binding energies based on their …

[HTML][HTML] Catalytic dechlorination of three organochlorides by recyclable nano-palladium-engineered natural sponge with formic acid

M Liu, G Chen, Z Song, Z He, A Zhong, M Cui - Catalysts, 2024 - mdpi.com
Catalytic dechlorination of organic chlorides by palladium (Pd) with HCOOH represents one
of the most effective and promising techniques for environmental remediation. In this study …

Electrocatalytic membrane with p-block bismuth atoms for selective oxygen activation to hydroxyl radicals for effective water decontamination

L Jin, M Liu, S You, H Zhao, Y Liu - Applied Catalysis B: Environment and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Herein, individual p-block bismuth (Bi) atoms are dispersed onto N-doped Ti 3 C 2 T x
MXene (BiN 3/MXene) to enhance the 3e− oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), for the …

Synergistic effect of interface and defect engineering of MoC/MoO2 nano dot encapsulated N-doped carbon nanoflowers for highly durable dye-sensitized solar cells

H Xu, N Liang, L Cui, H Zhang, B Yang, Z Jin - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The design and fabrication of advanced counter electrodes (CEs) for dye-sensitized solar
cells (DSSCs) are limited by the scarcity of active sites and poor durability. Herein, we report …