Recent advances on carbon‐based metal‐free electrocatalysts for energy and chemical conversions

Q Zhai, H Huang, T Lawson, Z Xia, P Giusto… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, carbon‐based metal‐free electrocatalysts (C‐MFECs) have become
important in electrocatalysis. This field is started thanks to the initial discovery that nitrogen …

Oxygen reduction electrocatalysis: From conventional to single-atomic platinum-based catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

C Yuan, S Zhang, J Zhang - Frontiers in Energy, 2024 - Springer
Platinum (Pt)-based materials are still the most efficient and practical catalysts to drive the
sluggish kinetics of cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange …

Manipulating Pt-skin of porous network Pt-Cu alloy nanospheres toward efficient oxygen reduction

Y Chen, X Zhao, H Yan, L Sun, S Chen, S Zhang… - Journal of colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Designing Pt-skin on the catalyst surface is critical to developing efficient and stable
electrocatalysts toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton exchange membrane fuel …

MEA Cost Reduction through Manufacturing Approaches and Material‐Level Innovation

D Banham, Y Peng, K Bai, JY Choi… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, the demand for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) has been
growing exponentially. For this growth to continue, it is imperative that the cost of PEMFC …

Effectively Controlling the Nanostructures and Active Sites of Non-Noble Carbon Catalysts for Improving Oxygen Reduction Reaction

X Rao, S Zhang, J Zhang - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-noble carbon catalysts have emerged as the potential alternatives of precious platinum
(Pt)-based catalysts to catalyze the cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells …

Unraveling the Tandem Effect of Nitrogen Configuration Promoting Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Seawater

S Wu, X Liu, H Mao, J Zhu, G Zhou, J Chi… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Developing seawater‐based high‐performance oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
electrocatalysts is meaningful to renewable energy storage and conversion, and the Fe …

Progress of Pt and iron-group transition metal alloy catalysts with high ORR activity for PEMFCs

Z Zhou, HJ Zhang, X Feng, Z Ma, ZF Ma… - Journal of Electroanalytical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The performances of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are affected by the
cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Platinum (Pt)-based catalysts can effectively …

Bimetallic NiCoP catalysts anchored on phosphorus-doped lignin-based carbon for robust oxygen evolution performance

LYZ Xiong, BW Liu, L Du, YK Zhou, XL Lin, H Wang - Rare Metals, 2024 - Springer
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts are the key core materials that determine the
performance of fuel cells, metal-air batteries, electrolytic water decomposition, and other …

Hierarchical pore engineering of MOF-5 derived electrocatalysts with high mass transfer for zinc-air flow batteries

Q Han, Y Leng, L Zhai, C Bao, J Zhang, J Hou… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
From micro to macro level, the performance of zinc-air flow battery (ZAFB) hinges on two
crucial factors: the effective oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts, and the …

Enhanced learning loop framework accelerates screening of bimetallic catalysts with high oxygen reduction properties in different coordination environments

P Song, Z Jia, S Lu, Z Wang, T Peng, Z Gao… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we used density functional theory and machine learning (DFT-ML) to predict
and screen the first coordination environment (FCE) and second coordination environment …