Carbon‐based metal‐free ORR electrocatalysts for fuel cells: past, present, and future

L Yang, J Shui, L Du, Y Shao, J Liu, L Dai… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Replacing precious platinum with earth‐abundant materials for the oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) in fuel cells has been the objective worldwide for several decades. In the last …

Recent Advances in Non‐Precious Metal Single‐Atom Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Low‐Temperature Polymer‐Electrolyte Fuel Cells

A Sarapuu, J Lilloja, S Akula, JH Zagal… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fuel cells have emerged as a promising clean electrochemical energy technology with a
great potential in various sectors, including transportation and power generation. However …

d‐Orbital Electron Delocalization Realized by Axial Fe4C Atomic Clusters Delivers High‐Performance Fe–N–C Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

LJ Yuan, B Liu, L Shen, YK Dai, Q Li, C Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fe–N–C catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been considered as the most
promising nonprecious metal catalyst due to its comparable catalytic performance to Pt in …

Multilayer stabilization for fabricating high-loading single-atom catalysts

Y Zhou, X Tao, G Chen, R Lu, D Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Metal single-atom catalysts (M-SACs) have emerged as an attractive concept for promoting
heterogeneous reactions, but the synthesis of high-loading M-SACs remains a challenge …

Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN4 Sites for Oxygen Reduction

J Li, H Zhang, W Samarakoon, W Shan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
FeN4 moieties embedded in partially graphitized carbon are the most efficient platinum
group metal free active sites for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic proton‐exchange …

Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon with Atomically Dispersed FeN4 for Ultraefficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

M Qiao, Y Wang, Q Wang, G Hu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The low catalytic activity and poor mass transport capacity of platinum group metal free
(PGM‐free) catalysts seriously restrict the application of proton‐exchange membrane fuel …

FeNC Electrocatalysts with Densely Accessible FeN4 Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Y Zhou, G Chen, Q Wang, D Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of iron and nitrogen co‐doped carbon (Fe N C) electrocatalysts for the
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton‐exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is a …

Establishing reactivity descriptors for platinum group metal (PGM)-free Fe–N–C catalysts for PEM fuel cells

M Primbs, Y Sun, A Roy, D Malko… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a comprehensive analysis of the catalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
reactivity of four of today's most active benchmark platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) …

Preparation of Fe–N–C catalysts with FeN x (x= 1, 3, 4) active sites and comparison of their activities for the oxygen reduction reaction and performances in proton …

Y Li, X Liu, L Zheng, J Shang, X Wan, R Hu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The active sites of Fe–N–C catalysts are nitrogen coordinated iron atoms, FeNx (x= 1–5),
that have five possible coordination numbers. FeN4 active sites are commonly reported, but …

Interfacial-confined coordination to single-atom nanotherapeutics

L Qin, J Gan, D Niu, Y Cao, X Duan, X Qin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pursuing and developing effective methodologies to construct highly active catalytic sites to
maximize the atomic and energy efficiency by material engineering are attractive. Relative to …