Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications

L Ðorđević, F Arcudi, M Cacioppo, M Prato - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Photoluminescent carbon nanoparticles, or carbon dots, are an emerging class of materials
that has recently attracted considerable attention for biomedical and energy applications …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon dots enhance ruthenium nanoparticles for efficient hydrogen production in alkaline

Y Liu, W Li, H Wu, S Lu - Acta Phys-Chim Sin, 2021 - academia.edu
In the 21st century, hydrogen energy is a novel energy source. Its use is expected to mitigate
the problems of environmental pollution and global warming caused by the excessive use of …

Revealing the role of interfacial water and key intermediates at ruthenium surfaces in the alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

X Chen, XT Wang, JB Le, SM Li, X Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ruthenium exhibits comparable or even better alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction activity
than platinum, however, the mechanistic aspects are yet to be settled, which are elucidated …

Rhodium nanocrystals on porous graphdiyne for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution from saline water

Y Gao, Y Xue, L Qi, C Xing, X Zheng, F He… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The realization of the efficient hydrogen conversion with large current densities at low
overpotentials represents the development trend of this field. Here we report the atomic …

The reformation of catalyst: From a trial-and-error synthesis to rational design

L Wang, J Wu, S Wang, H Liu, Y Wang, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
The appropriate catalysts can accelerate the reaction rate and effectively boost the efficient
conversion of various molecules, which is of great importance in the study of chemistry …

Biomass-based carbon dots: current development and future perspectives

TC Wareing, P Gentile, AN Phan - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots have been considered as a solution to the challenges that semiconductor
quantum dots have encountered because they are more biocompatible and can be …

The synergistic effect of Hf-O-Ru bonds and oxygen vacancies in Ru/HfO2 for enhanced hydrogen evolution

G Li, H Jang, S Liu, Z Li, MG Kim, Q Qin, X Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ru nanoparticles have been demonstrated to be highly active electrocatalysts for the
hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). At present, most of Ru nanoparticles-based HER …

The development of carbon dots: From the perspective of materials chemistry

S Li, L Li, H Tu, H Zhang, DS Silvester, CE Banks… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The advance of materials chemistry has influenced significantly the lifestyle of mankind. By
virtue of their fascinating physicochemical nature–including ultrasmall size (< 10 nm), rich …

Recent progress on the long‐term stability of hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts

W Zhai, Y Ma, D Chen, JC Ho, Z Dai, Y Qu - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developing new methodologies to produce clean and renewable energy resources is
pivotal for carbon‐neutral initiatives. Hydrogen (H2) is considered as an ideal energy …