Recent progress of amorphous nanomaterials

J Kang, X Yang, Q Hu, Z Cai, LM Liu, L Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Descriptors for the evaluation of electrocatalytic reactions: d‐band theory and beyond

S Jiao, X Fu, H Huang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Closing the carbon‐, hydrogen‐, and nitrogen cycle with renewable electricity holds
promises for the mitigation of the facing environment and energy crisis, along with the …

Amorphous Mo‐doped NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanosheets@Crystalline NiS0.5Se0.5 Nanorods for High Current‐density Electrocatalytic Water Splitting in Neutral Media

Y Wang, X Li, Z Huang, H Wang, Z Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is vitally important to develop highly active, robust and low‐cost transition metal‐based
electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in neutral solution especially at large current …

Sodium‐Decorated Amorphous/Crystalline RuO2 with Rich Oxygen Vacancies: A Robust pH‐Universal Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst

L Zhang, H Jang, H Liu, MG Kim, D Yang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key reaction for many electrochemical devices. To
date, many OER electrocatalysts function well in alkaline media, but exhibit poor …

Pd–PdO nanodomains on amorphous Ru metallene oxide for high‐performance multifunctional electrocatalysis

VH Do, P Prabhu, V Jose, T Yoshida, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Developing highly efficient multifunctional electrocatalysts is crucial for future sustainable
energy pursuits, but remains a great challenge. Herein, a facile synthetic strategy is used to …

Lattice‐Strain Engineering for Heterogenous Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Z Hou, C Cui, Y Li, Y Gao, D Zhu, Y Gu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The energy efficiency of metal–air batteries and water‐splitting techniques is severely
constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction …

Atomically reconstructed palladium metallene by intercalation-induced lattice expansion and amorphization for highly efficient electrocatalysis

M Xie, B Zhang, Z Jin, P Li, G Yu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
As an emerging class of materials with distinctive physicochemical properties, metallenes
are deemed as efficient catalysts for energy-related electrocatalytic reactions. Engineering …

Reversed charge transfer and enhanced hydrogen spillover in platinum nanoclusters anchored on titanium oxide with rich oxygen vacancies boost hydrogen …

ZW Wei, HJ Wang, C Zhang, K Xu, XL Lu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The catalytic activity of metal clusters is closely related with the support; however,
knowledge on the influence of the support on the catalytic activity is scarce. We demonstrate …

Phase engineering of nanomaterials

Y Chen, Z Lai, X Zhang, Z Fan, Q He, C Tan… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Phase has emerged as an important structural parameter—in addition to composition,
morphology, architecture, facet, size and dimensionality—that determines the properties and …

The critical impacts of ligands on heterogeneous nanocatalysis: A review

L Lu, S Zou, B Fang - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ligand utilization is a necessary and powerful technique for the colloidal synthesis of
nanoparticles (NPs) with controllable sizes and regulated morphologies. For catalysis …