Oxygen Evolution/Reduction Reaction Catalysts: From In Situ Monitoring and Reaction Mechanisms to Rational Design

Y Zhao, DP Adiyeri Saseendran, C Huang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are core steps of
various energy conversion and storage systems. However, their sluggish reaction kinetics …

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 …

High carbon utilization in CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products in acidic media

Y Xie, P Ou, X Wang, Z Xu, YC Li, Z Wang, JE Huang… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Renewable electricity-powered CO2 reduction to multi-carbon (C2+) products offers a
promising route to realization of low-carbon-footprint fuels and chemicals. However, a major …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and tailoring C–N coupling site for efficient urea synthesis over diatomic Fe–Ni catalyst

X Zhang, X Zhu, S Bo, C Chen, M Qiu, X Wei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis emerged as the promising alternative of Haber–Bosch
process and industrial urea synthetic protocol. Here, we report that a diatomic catalyst with …

Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate–a step towards a sustainable nitrogen cycle

H Xu, Y Ma, J Chen, W Zhang, J Yang - Chemical society reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrate enrichment, which is mainly caused by the over-utilization of fertilisers and industrial
sewage discharge, is a major global engineering challenge because of its negative …

Oxygen vacancy-mediated selective C–N coupling toward electrocatalytic urea synthesis

X Wei, X Wen, Y Liu, C Chen, C Xie… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electrocatalytic C–N coupling for one-step urea synthesis under ambient conditions
serves as the promising alternative to the traditional urea synthetic protocol. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient urea electrosynthesis from carbon dioxide and nitrate via alternating Cu–W bimetallic C–N coupling sites

Y Zhao, Y Ding, W Li, C Liu, Y Li, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic urea synthesis is an emerging alternative technology to the traditional
energy-intensive industrial urea synthesis protocol. Novel strategies are urgently needed to …

Selective electrochemical synthesis of urea from nitrate and CO2 via relay catalysis on hybrid catalysts

Y Luo, K Xie, P Ou, C Lavallais, T Peng, Z Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The nitrogen cycle needed for scaled agriculture relies on energy-and carbon-intensive
processes and generates nitrate-containing wastewater. Here we focus on an alternative …

Dynamic reconstitution between copper single atoms and clusters for electrocatalytic urea synthesis

X Wei, Y Liu, X Zhu, S Bo, L Xiao, C Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Electrocatalytic C N coupling between carbon dioxide and nitrate has emerged to
meet the comprehensive demands of carbon footprint closing, valorization of waste, and …

Atomically dispersed materials: Ideal catalysts in atomic era

T Gan, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Catalysts can accelerate the chemical reaction rate and effectively promote the molecules
transformation, which is of great significance in the research of chemical industry and …