Carbon-supported Pt-based alloy electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: particle size, shape, and composition …

YJ Wang, N Zhao, B Fang, H Li, XT Bi… - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Global energy demands are projected to grow 36% over the current level by the year 2030.
1 Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are among the most promising …

Recent advances in multi-scale design and construction of materials for direct methanol fuel cells

Z Xia, X Zhang, H Sun, S Wang, G Sun - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
As one of the substitute power sources with low environmental impact and high energy
density, direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) show great potentials in applications of portable …

Rational design of septenary high-entropy alloy for direct ethanol fuel cells

J Chang, G Wang, C Li, Y He, Y Zhu, W Zhang, M Sajid… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Promoting C–C bond cleavage of ethanol by a complete 12-electron (12e) ethanol oxidation
reaction (EOR) is a grand challenge for the development of highly efficient direct ethanol fuel …

Copper-on-nitride enhances the stable electrosynthesis of multi-carbon products from CO2

ZQ Liang, TT Zhuang, A Seifitokaldani, J Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Copper-based materials are promising electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Prior studies
show that the mixture of copper (I) and copper (0) at the catalyst surface enhances multi …

[HTML][HTML] Implicit self-consistent electrolyte model in plane-wave density-functional theory

K Mathew, VS Kolluru, S Mula, SN Steinmann… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The ab initio computational treatment of electrochemical systems requires an appropriate
treatment of the solid/liquid interfaces. A fully quantum mechanical treatment of the interface …

Electrochemical energy conversion on intermetallic compounds: a review

L Rößner, M Armbrüster - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Structurally ordered intermetallic compounds possess unique chemical and physical
properties, making them an interesting class of materials for application in electrocatalytic …

Implicit solvation model for density-functional study of nanocrystal surfaces and reaction pathways

K Mathew, R Sundararaman… - The Journal of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Solid-liquid interfaces are at the heart of many modern-day technologies and provide a
challenge to many materials simulation methods. A realistic first-principles computational …

Structurally ordered intermetallic platinum–cobalt core–shell nanoparticles with enhanced activity and stability as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

D Wang, HL Xin, R Hovden, H Wang, Y Yu, DA Muller… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
To enhance and optimize nanocatalyst performance and durability for the oxygen reduction
reaction in fuel-cell applications, we look beyond Pt–metal disordered alloys and describe a …

Platinum-based oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

J Wu, H Yang - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
An efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) offers the potential for clean energy generation
in low-temperature, proton-exchange membrane fuel cells running on hydrogen fuel and air …

Understanding the electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction on platinum and its alloys

IEL Stephens, AS Bondarenko, U Grønbjerg… - Energy & …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The high cost of low temperature fuel cells is to a large part dictated by the high loading of Pt
required to catalyse the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Arguably the most viable route to …