Atomically dispersed materials: Ideal catalysts in atomic era

T Gan, D Wang - Nano Research, 2024 - Springer
Catalysts can accelerate the chemical reaction rate and effectively promote the molecules
transformation, which is of great significance in the research of chemical industry and …

Recent Progress for Concurrent Realization of Shuttle‐Inhibition and Dendrite‐Free Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

W Yao, J Xu, L Ma, X Lu, D Luo, J Qian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have become one of the most promising new‐
generation energy storage systems owing to their ultrahigh energy density (2600 Wh kg− 1) …

Water electrolysis for hydrogen production: from hybrid systems to self-powered/catalyzed devices

JT Ren, L Chen, HY Wang, WW Tian… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrocatalytic splitting of water holds great promise as a sustainable and
environmentally friendly technology for hydrogen production. However, the sluggish kinetics …

Isolated Fe-Co heteronuclear diatomic sites as efficient bifunctional catalysts for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

X Sun, Y Qiu, B Jiang, Z Chen, C Zhao, H Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The slow redox kinetics of polysulfides and the difficulties in decomposition of Li2S during
the charge and discharge processes are two serious obstacles to the practical application of …

A pyrolysis-free Ni/Fe bimetallic electrocatalyst for overall water splitting

Y Zang, DQ Lu, K Wang, B Li, P Peng, YQ Lan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Catalysts capable of electrochemical overall water splitting in acidic, neutral, and alkaline
solution are important materials. This work develops bifunctional catalysts with single atom …

Boosting Bi‐Directional Redox of Sulfur with Dual Metal Single Atom Pairs in Carbon Spheres Toward High‐Rate and Long‐Cycling Lithium–Sulfur Battery

C Dong, C Zhou, M Wu, Y Yu, K Yu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The severe shuttle effect of polysulfides and sluggish redox kinetics are the main problems
that hinder the practical applications of lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. In this study, dual …

Advances in the development of single‐atom catalysts for high‐energy‐density lithium–sulfur batteries

Z Liang, J Shen, X Xu, F Li, J Liu, B Yuan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are promising next‐generation energy‐storage
systems, their practical applications are limited by the growth of Li dendrites and lithium …

dp hybridization-induced “Trapping–Coupling–Conversion” enables high-efficiency Nb single-atom catalysis for Li–S batteries

Y Zhang, C Kang, W Zhao, Y Song, J Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single-atom catalysts have been paid more attention to improving sluggish reaction kinetics
and anchoring polysulfide for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. It has been demonstrated that d …

Sulfur reduction reaction in lithium–sulfur batteries: Mechanisms, catalysts, and characterization

L Zhou, DL Danilov, F Qiao, J Wang… - Advanced energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium–sulfur batteries are one of the most promising alternatives for advanced battery
systems due to the merits of extraordinary theoretical specific energy density, abundant …

Physicochemical confinement effect enables high-performing zinc–iodine batteries

M Liu, Q Chen, X Cao, D Tan, J Ma… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Zinc–iodine batteries are promising energy storage devices with the unique features of
aqueous electrolytes and safer zinc. However, their performances are still limited by the …