Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X Xiao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline environment: material challenges and solutions

X Xie, L Du, L Yan, S Park, Y Qiu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) generally exists in electrochemistry‐enabled
applications that are coupled with cathodic reactions like hydrogen evolution, carbon …

Carbon‐based electrocatalysts for acidic oxygen reduction reaction

P Cui, L Zhao, Y Long, L Dai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is vital for clean and renewable energy technologies,
which require no fossil fuel but catalysts. Platinum (Pt) is the best‐known catalyst for ORR …

Recent advances of noble-metal-free bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution electrocatalysts

CX Zhao, JN Liu, J Wang, D Ren, BQ Li… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen reduction and evolution reactions constitute the core process of many vital energy
storage or conversion techniques. However, the kinetic sluggishness of the oxygen redox …

Carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts: from oxygen reduction to multifunctional electrocatalysis

C Hu, R Paul, Q Dai, L Dai - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the discovery of N-doped carbon nanotubes as the first carbon-based metal-free
electrocatalyst (C-MFEC) for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in 2009, C-MFECs have …

Atomically dispersed transition metal-nitrogen-carbon bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for zinc-air batteries: recent advances and future perspectives

F Dong, M Wu, Z Chen, X Liu, G Zhang, J Qiao… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are currently receiving extensive attention because
of their extremely high theoretical specific energy density, low manufacturing costs, and …

3D graphene materials: from understanding to design and synthesis control

Z Sun, S Fang, YH Hu - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carbon materials, with their diverse allotropes, have played significant roles in our daily life
and the development of material science. Following 0D C60 and 1D carbon nanotube, 2D …

Covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis, and functions

K Geng, T He, R Liu, S Dalapati, KT Tan, Z Li… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline porous organic polymers with
permanent porosity and highly ordered structures. Unlike other polymers, a significant …

MOF-derived electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions

HF Wang, L Chen, H Pang, S Kaskel… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER) are three key reactions for the development of green and sustainable energy …

Active site engineering in porous electrocatalysts

H Chen, X Liang, Y Liu, X Ai, T Asefa… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalysis is at the center of many sustainable energy conversion technologies that are
being developed to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. The past decade has witnessed …