Opportunities and challenges of strain engineering for advanced electrocatalyst design

QM Liang, X Wang, XW Wan, LX Lin, BJ Geng, ZQ Tian… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
Electrocatalysis is becoming more and more important in energy conversion and storage
due to rising energy demands, increasing carbon dioxide emissions, and impending climate …

Surface active oxygen engineering of photoanodes to boost photoelectrochemical water and alcohol oxidation coupled with hydrogen production

Y Miao, Z Li, Y Song, K Fan, J Guo, R Li… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photoelectrochemical conversion of solar energy into fuels (or chemicals) is in urgent need
of efficient photoanodes to drive its practical applications. Nevertheless, the development of …

Skeletal nanostructures promoting electrocatalytic reactions with three-dimensional frameworks

HY Kim, M Jun, K Lee, SH Joo - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hollow skeletal nanomaterials, such as nanoframes and nanocages, represent a class of
advanced electrocatalysts and exhibit excellent performance in various electrochemical …

Interfacial Electron Engineering of PdSn‐NbN/C for Highly Efficient Cleavage of the C–C Bonds in Alkaline Ethanol Electrooxidation

N Ye, W Sheng, R Zhang, B Yan, Z Jiang, T Fang - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The splitting of the C–C bonds of ethanol remains a key issue to be addressed, despite
tremendous efforts made over the past several decades. This study highlights the …

Enhanced hydrogen evolution performance by 3D ordered macroporous Ru-CoP@ NC electrocatalysts

CC Zhang, S Wei, LX Sun, YF Ouyang, F Xu, HL Chu… - Rare Metals, 2024 - Springer
Electrocatalytic water splitting coupled with sustainable energies is identified as an
environmentally friendly and renewable strategy to generate high-quality hydrogen for the …

Ru doping induced lattice distortion of Cu nanoparticles for boosting electrochemical nonenzymatic hydrogen peroxide sensing

C Zhang, H Yin, X Bai, Z Yang - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report a new strategy to activate the electrocatalytic activity of Cu to realize
the non-enzymatic detection of hydrogen peroxide. The Ru-doped copper nanoparticles …

Nanoframes as a Resilient Candidate for a Broader Spectra of Catalysis Challenges

F Ahmad, Q Ain, S Zahid, T Akitsu - Symmetry, 2024 - mdpi.com
Metal nanoframes have gained tremendous attention in the domain of modern research and
development due to their distinctive 3D spatial structure, efficient physiochemical properties …

Boosting hydrogen production by selective anodic electrooxidation of ethanol over trimetallic PdSbBi nanoparticles: Composition matters

Q Wang, T Li, S Yan, W Zhang, G Lv, H Xu… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The conventional hydrogen evolution from water electrolysis is severely impeded by the
sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this work, an integrated electrolysis …

Continuous Strain Regulation of Palladium–Gold at the Atomic Level

QM Liang, SK Chen, Z Ding, JC Wang, C Hu, J Shi… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Revealing the effect of surface structure changes on the electrocatalytic performance is
beneficial to the development of highly efficient catalysts. However, precise regulation of the …

Activable Ru-PdRu nanosheets with heterogeneous interface for High-efficiency alcohol oxidation reaction

Y Zhang, J Li, C Wang, D Liu, R Yu, C Ye… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fabricating 2D nanomaterials with heterogeneous structure is a feasible way to improve
catalytic performance owing to its large surface area and tunable electron structure …