Role of oxygen vacancy in metal oxides for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

W Jiang, H Loh, BQL Low, H Zhu, J Low… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic conversion of greenhouse gas CO 2 into valuable solar fuels represents a
promising technology for addressing the global energy crisis and environmental issues …

Oxygen vacancies‐rich metal oxide for electrocatalytic nitrogen cycle

X Wei, C Chen, XZ Fu, S Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of industry and agriculture has been accompanied by an artificially
imbalanced nitrogen cycle, which threatens human health and ecological environments …

Sn Dopants with Synergistic Oxygen Vacancies Boost CO2 Electroreduction on CuO Nanosheets to CO at Low Overpotential

X Zhong, S Liang, T Yang, G Zeng, Z Zhong, H Deng… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Using the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) with Cu-based electrocatalysts
to achieve carbon-neutral cycles remains a significant challenge because of its low …

Facilely tuning the intrinsic catalytic sites of the spinel oxide for peroxymonosulfate activation: From fundamental investigation to pilot-scale demonstration

M Huang, YS Li, CQ Zhang, C Cui… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Heterogeneous peroxymonosulfate (PMS)–based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs)
have shown a great potential for pollutant degradation, but their feasibility for large-scale …

Excited Electron‐Rich Bi(3–x)+ Sites: A Quantum Well‐Like Structure for Highly Promoted Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Performance

B Wang, W Zhang, G Liu, H Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the current research on the photocatalytic mechanism of semiconductors is still on
the simulation and evaluation of ground‐state active sites. Insights into photogenerated …

Vacancy designed 2D materials for electrodes in energy storage devices

R Kumar, S Sahoo, E Joanni, R Pandey… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Vacancies are ubiquitous in nature, usually playing an important role in determining how a
material behaves, both physically and chemically. As a consequence, researchers have …

Defective Metal Oxides: Lessons from CO2RR and Applications in NOxRR

TS Bui, EC Lovell, R Daiyan, R Amal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sluggish reaction kinetics and the undesired side reactions (hydrogen evolution reaction
and self‐reduction) are the main bottlenecks of electrochemical conversion reactions, such …

Defect engineering of electrode materials towards superior reaction kinetics for high-performance supercapacitors

W Lu, L Yan, W Ye, J Ning, Y Zhong… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of high-performance supercapacitors (SCs) highly depends on the
advanced electrode materials, but they are plagued by the sluggish reaction kinetics. With …

Facile synthesis of 2-D rGO based SmSe nanohybrid via hydrothermal route for solid-state supercapacitor

M Hayat, M Abdullah, K Jabbour, N Bibi, S Khan… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrode materials based on transition metal selenide have lately gained much favor in
electrochemical supercapacitor owing to their outstanding capacitive performance …

Oxygen vacancy engineering of zinc oxide for boosting piezo-electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

X Xiong, Y Wang, J Ma, Y He, J Huang, Y Feng… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vibration-driven piezo-electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction has drawn great interest
in the past years as it provides an effective approach to harvest the dispersed and extensive …