Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate–a step towards a sustainable nitrogen cycle

H Xu, Y Ma, J Chen, W Zhang, J Yang - Chemical society reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrate enrichment, which is mainly caused by the over-utilization of fertilisers and industrial
sewage discharge, is a major global engineering challenge because of its negative …

Catalysis of alloys: classification, principles, and design for a variety of materials and reactions

Y Nakaya, S Furukawa - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alloying has long been used as a promising methodology to improve the catalytic
performance of metallic materials. In recent years, the field of alloy catalysis has made …

Plasma‐induced Mo‐doped Co3O4 with enriched oxygen vacancies for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in water splitting

Y Huang, M Li, F Pan, Z Zhu, H Sun, Y Tang… - Carbon …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heteroatomic substitution and vacancy engineering of spinel oxides can theoretically
optimize the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) through charge redistribution and d‐band …

Improving the oxygen evolution activity of layered double‐hydroxide via erbium‐induced electronic engineering

Y Zhu, X Wang, X Zhu, Z Wu, D Zhao, F Wang, D Sun… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Layered double‐hydroxide (LDH) has been considered an important class of
electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), but the adsorption‐desorption …

High-entropy alloys as a platform for catalysis: progress, challenges, and opportunities

Y Xin, S Li, Y Qian, W Zhu, H Yuan, P Jiang, R Guo… - Acs …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High-entropy alloys (HEAs), which are defined as near-equimolar alloys of five or more
elements, are attracting ever increasing attention because of the unique properties in a …

Single-atom alloy catalysis

RT Hannagan, G Giannakakis… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Single-atom alloys (SAAs) play an increasingly significant role in the field of single-site
catalysis and are typically composed of catalytically active elements atomically dispersed in …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Activity and selectivity trends in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction on transition metals

JX Liu, D Richards, N Singh, BR Goldsmith - Acs Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic reduction is a promising approach to remediate nitrate (NO3–), one of the
world's most widespread water pollutants. In the present work, we elucidate activity and …

Gd-induced electronic structure engineering of a NiFe-layered double hydroxide for efficient oxygen evolution

M Li, H Li, X Jiang, M Jiang, X Zhan, G Fu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Rare earth (RE) elements have drawn increased attention recently as an effective promoter
in electrocatalysis because of their partially filled 4f orbitals. Herein, a new type of RE hybrid …

Sulfur loading and speciation control the hydrophobicity, electron transfer, reactivity, and selectivity of sulfidized nanoscale zerovalent iron

J Xu, A Avellan, H Li, X Liu, V Noël, Z Lou… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfidized nanoscale zerovalent iron (SNZVI) is a promising material for groundwater
remediation. However, the relationships between sulfur content and speciation and the …