Recent advances in electrocatalysts for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia

D Liu, L Qiao, S Peng, H Bai, C Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia as an irreplaceable chemical has been widely demanded to keep the sustainable
development of the modern society. However, its industrial production consumes huge …

Rational design of flexible Zn-based batteries for wearable electronic devices

X Xiao, Z Zheng, X Zhong, R Gao, Z Piao, M Jiao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The advent of 5G and the Internet of Things has spawned a demand for wearable electronic
devices. However, the lack of a suitable flexible energy storage system has become the …

Synergistic Fe− Se atom pairs as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts boost low‐temperature rechargeable Zn‐air battery

Y Wang, J Wu, S Tang, J Yang, C Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we successfully construct bifunctional electrocatalysts by synthesizing atomically
dispersed Fe− Se atom pairs supported on N‐doped carbon (Fe− Se/NC). The obtained Fe …

Construction of Co4 Atomic Clusters to Enable Fe−N4 Motifs with Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction Performance

A Han, W Sun, X Wan, D Cai, X Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fe− N− C catalysts with single‐atom Fe− N4 configurations are highly needed owing to the
high activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, the limited intrinsic activity and …

Theoretically revealed and experimentally demonstrated synergistic electronic interaction of CoFe dual-metal sites on N-doped carbon for boosting both oxygen …

X Zhou, J Gao, Y Hu, Z Jin, K Hu, KM Reddy… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Heteronuclear double-atom catalysts, unlike single atom catalysts, may change the charge
density of active metal sites by introducing another metal single atom, thereby modifying the …

Flexible Zinc–Air Batteries with Ampere‐Hour Capacities and Wide‐Temperature Adaptabilities

X Zhong, Z Zheng, J Xu, X Xiao, C Sun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Flexible Zn–air batteries (FZABs) have significant potentials as efficient energy
storage devices for wearable electronics because of their safeties and high energy‐to‐cost …

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 …

An adjacent atomic platinum site enables single‐atom iron with high oxygen reduction reaction performance

A Han, X Wang, K Tang, Z Zhang, C Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The modulation effect has been widely investigated to tune the electronic state of single‐
atomic M‐N‐C catalysts to enhance the activity of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Rechargeable zinc–air batteries with an ultralarge discharge capacity per cycle and an ultralong cycle life

X Zhong, Y Shao, B Chen, C Li, J Sheng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A conventional two‐electrode rechargeable zinc–air battery (RZAB) has two major
problems: 1) opposing requirements for the oxygen reduction (ORR) and oxygen evolution …

Graphene‐supported atomically dispersed metals as bifunctional catalysts for next‐generation batteries based on conversion reactions

B Chen, X Zhong, G Zhou, N Zhao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation batteries based on conversion reactions, including aqueous metal–air
batteries, nonaqueous alkali metal‐O2 and‐CO2 batteries, alkali metal‐chalcogen batteries …