Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement

Y He, S Liu, C Priest, Q Shi, G Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The urgent need to address the high-cost issue of proton-exchange membrane fuel cell
(PEMFC) technologies, particularly for transportation applications, drives the development of …

Materials, technological status, and fundamentals of PEM fuel cells–a review

Y Wang, DFR Diaz, KS Chen, Z Wang, XC Adroher - Materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract PEM (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane) fuel cells have the potential to reduce our
energy use, pollutant emissions, and dependence on fossil fuels. In the past decade …

Mesopore‐Rich Fe–N–C Catalyst with FeN4–O–NC Single‐Atom Sites Delivers Remarkable Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance in Alkaline Media

L Peng, J Yang, Y Yang, F Qian, Q Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fe–N–C catalysts offer excellent performance for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in
alkaline media. With a view toward boosting the intrinsic ORR activity of Fe single‐atom sites …

The significance of properly reporting turnover frequency in electrocatalysis research

S Anantharaj, PE Karthik, S Noda - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, turnover frequency (TOF) has served as an accurate descriptor of the intrinsic
activity of a catalyst, including those in electrocatalytic reactions involving both fuel …

Direct Oxygen‐Oxygen Cleavage through Optimizing Interatomic Distances in Dual Single‐atom Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Y Xie, X Chen, K Sun, J Zhang, WH Lai… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on transition single‐atom catalysts (SACs) is
sustainable in energy‐conversion devices. However, the atomically controllable fabrication …

P-block single-metal-site tin/nitrogen-doped carbon fuel cell cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

F Luo, A Roy, L Silvioli, DA Cullen, A Zitolo… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
This contribution reports the discovery and analysis of ap-block Sn-based catalyst for the
electroreduction of molecular oxygen in acidic conditions at fuel cell cathodes; the catalyst is …

Climbing the apex of the ORR volcano plot via binuclear site construction: electronic and geometric engineering

M Xiao, Y Chen, J Zhu, H Zhang, X Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Great enthusiasm in single-atom catalysts (SACs) for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
has been aroused by the discovery of M–NX as a promising ORR catalysis center. However …

Understanding of Neighboring Fe‐N4‐C and Co‐N4‐C Dual Active Centers for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

H Li, Y Wen, M Jiang, Y Yao, H Zhou… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Single atomic dispersed M‐N‐C (M= Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, etc.) composites display excellent
performance for catalytic reactions. However, the analysis and understanding of neighboring …

Electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and oxygen

SC Perry, D Pangotra, L Vieira, LI Csepei… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
H2O2 is important in large-scale industrial processes and smaller on-site activities. The
present industrial route to H2O2 involves hydrogenation of an anthraquinone and O2 …

General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities

H Fei, J Dong, Y Feng, CS Allen, C Wan, B Volosskiy… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have recently attracted broad research interest as they
combine the merits of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. Rational design …