Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

Rational design of better hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts for water splitting: a review

F Liu, C Shi, X Guo, Z He, L Pan, ZF Huang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The excessive dependence on fossil fuels contributes to the majority of CO2 emissions,
influencing on the climate change. One promising alternative to fossil fuels is green …

Synergizing Hydrogen Spillover and Deprotonation by the Internal Polarization Field in a MoS2/NiPS3 Vertical Heterostructure for Boosted Water Electrolysis

Y Liu, Y Chen, Y Tian, T Sakthivel, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen spillover (HSo) has emerged to upgrade the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
activity of Pt‐support electrocatalysts, but it is not applicable to the deprotonated oxygen …

Frenkel-defected monolayer MoS2 catalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution

J Xu, G Shao, X Tang, F Lv, H Xiang, C Jing… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Defect engineering is an effective strategy to improve the activity of two-dimensional
molybdenum disulfide base planes toward electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction …

Single-atom yttrium engineering janus electrode for rechargeable Na–S batteries

E Zhang, X Hu, L Meng, M Qiu, J Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of rechargeable Na–S batteries is very promising, thanks to their
considerably high energy density, abundance of elements, and low costs and yet faces the …

Supports promote single-atom catalysts toward advanced electrocatalysis

H Xu, Y Zhao, Q Wang, G He, H Chen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) offer high reactivity and selectivity toward catalytic reaction
while maximizing the utilization of active components. Unfortunately, single-atom sites are …

Recent developments on iron and nickel-based transition metal nitrides for overall water splitting: A critical review

M Batool, A Hameed, MA Nadeem - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Transition metal nitrides (TMNs) have gained substantial interest to generate hydrogen from
direct dissociation of water via catalytic strategy. Due to the unique noble metal like …

Charge self-regulation in 1T'''-MoS2 structure with rich S vacancies for enhanced hydrogen evolution activity

X Guo, E Song, W Zhao, S Xu, W Zhao, Y Lei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Active electronic states in transition metal dichalcogenides are able to prompt hydrogen
evolution by improving hydrogen absorption. However, the development of …

Isolating single and few atoms for enhanced catalysis

Y Chen, J Lin, B Jia, X Wang, S Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically dispersed metal catalysts have triggered great interest in the field of catalysis
owing to their unique features. Isolated single or few metal atoms can be anchored on …

Engineering active sites on hierarchical transition bimetal oxides/sulfides heterostructure array enabling robust overall water splitting

P Zhai, Y Zhang, Y Wu, J Gao, B Zhang, S Cao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rational design of the catalysts is impressive for sustainable energy conversion. However,
there is a grand challenge to engineer active sites at the interface. Herein, hierarchical …