Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

Carbon nitride based materials: more than just a support for single-atom catalysis

GFSR Rocha, MAR da Silva, A Rogolino… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the missing link between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis has been
found and it was named single-atom catalysis (SAC). However, the SAC field still faces …

Understanding the structure-performance relationship of active sites at atomic scale

R Li, D Wang - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Metal-based atomically dispersed catalysts have attracted more attention because of their
excellent catalytic performance and nearly 100% atom utilization. Therefore, it is very …

Arming Ru with Oxygen‐Vacancy‐Enriched RuO2 Sub‐Nanometer Skin Activates Superior Bifunctionality for pH‐Universal Overall Water Splitting

Y Li, W Wang, M Cheng, Y Feng, X Han… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water electrolysis has been expected to assimilate the renewable yet intermediate energy‐
derived electricity for green H2 production. However, current benchmark anodic catalysts of …

Atomically dispersed materials: Ideal catalysts in atomic era

T Gan, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Catalysts can accelerate the chemical reaction rate and effectively promote the molecules
transformation, which is of great significance in the research of chemical industry and …

Insights into the activity of single-atom Fe-NC catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction

K Liu, J Fu, Y Lin, T Luo, G Ni, H Li, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-atom Fe-NC catalysts has attracted widespread attentions in the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR). However, the origin of ORR activity on Fe-NC catalysts is still unclear, which …

Protruding Pt single-sites on hexagonal ZnIn2S4 to accelerate photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

X Shi, C Dai, X Wang, J Hu, J Zhang, L Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-site cocatalysts engineered on supports offer a cost-efficient pathway to utilize
precious metals, yet improving the performance further with minimal catalyst loading is still …

Regulations of active moiety in single atom catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction

P Zhu, X Xiong, D Wang - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Hydrogen production from water splitting using renewable electric energy is an interesting
topic towards the carbon neutral future. Single atom catalysts (SACs) have emerged as a …

Recent advances in design of electrocatalysts for high‐current‐density water splitting

Y Luo, Z Zhang, M Chhowalla, B Liu - Advanced materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical water splitting technology for producing “green hydrogen” is important for
the global mission of carbon neutrality. Electrocatalysts with decent performance at high …

Ultrahigh stable methanol oxidation enabled by a high hydroxyl concentration on Pt clusters/MXene interfaces

J Zhu, L Xia, R Yu, R Lu, J Li, R He, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Anchoring platinum catalysts on appropriate supports, eg, MXenes, is a feasible pathway to
achieve a desirable anode for direct methanol fuel cells. The authentic performance of Pt is …