Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally
benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic …

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 …

The Sabatier principle, which states that the binding energy between the catalyst and the
reactant should be neither too strong nor too weak, has been widely used as the key …

Electrocatalytic water splitting allows storing excess energy from renewable energy sources
such as wind and solar in chemical bonds of hydrogen molecules. So far, only polymer …

The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) supplies the protons and electrons
needed to transform renewable electricity into chemicals and fuels. However, the OER is …

Metal borides/borates have been considered promising as oxygen evolution reaction
catalysts; however, to date, there is a dearth of evidence of long-term stability at practical …

To move from fossil-based energy resources to a society based on renewables, electrode
materials free of precious noble metals are required to efficiently catalyze electrochemical …

Traditional trial and error approaches to search for hydrogen/oxygen redox catalysts with
high activity and stability are typically tedious and inefficient. There is an urgent need to …

The influence of electrolyte ions on the catalytic activity of electrode/electrolyte interfaces is a
controversial topic for many electrocatalytic reactions. Herein, we focus on an effect that is …

Renewable energy storage via water electrolysis strongly depends on the design of
electrified electrode–electrolyte interfaces at which electricity is converted into chemical …