Electrocatalysis in alkaline media and alkaline membrane-based energy technologies

Y Yang, CR Peltier, R Zeng, R Schimmenti, Q Li… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen energy-based electrochemical energy conversion technologies offer the promise
of enabling a transition of the global energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewable energy …

Recent advances in electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and alkaline membrane fuel cells

F Xiao, YC Wang, ZP Wu, G Chen, F Yang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid progress of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and alkaline
exchange membrane fuel cells (AMFCs) has boosted the hydrogen economy concept via …

Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst

J Guo, Y Zheng, Z Hu, C Zheng, J Mao, K Du… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the
shortage of freshwater resources. Seawater is abundant but must be desalinated before use …

Boosting urea electrooxidation on oxyanion-engineered nickel sites via inhibited water oxidation

X Gao, X Bai, P Wang, Y Jiao, K Davey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Renewable energy-based electrocatalytic oxidation of organic nucleophiles (eg methanol,
urea, and amine) are more thermodynamically favourable and, economically attractive to …

Synergistic interactions between PtRu catalyst and nitrogen-doped carbon support boost hydrogen oxidation

W Ni, JL Meibom, NU Hassan, M Chang, YC Chu… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) is a potentially cost-effective energy
conversion technology. However, current state-of-the-art HEMFCs require a high loading of …

Nickel–molybdenum–niobium metallic glass for efficient hydrogen oxidation in hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

FY Gao, SN Liu, JC Ge, XL Zhang, L Zhu, YR Zheng… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The cost of fuel cell systems can be largely reduced by developing hydroxide exchange
membrane fuel cells (HEMFCs) based on platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts …

Pt/Fe2O3 with Pt–Fe pair sites as a catalyst for oxygen reduction with ultralow Pt loading

R Gao, J Wang, ZF Huang, R Zhang, W Wang, L Pan… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Platinum is the archetypal electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction—a key reaction in fuel cells
and zinc–air batteries. Although dispersing platinum as single atoms on a support is a …

Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction

K Sun, X Wu, Z Zhuang, L Liu, J Fang, L Zeng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in neutral media is of great practical importance for
sustainable hydrogen production, but generally suffers from low activities, the cause of …

Understanding the complementarities of surface-enhanced infrared and Raman spectroscopies in CO adsorption and electrochemical reduction

X Chang, S Vijay, Y Zhao, NJ Oliveira, K Chan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In situ/operando surface enhanced infrared and Raman spectroscopies are widely
employed in electrocatalysis research to extract mechanistic information and establish …

Constructing asymmetric double-atomic sites for synergistic catalysis of electrochemical CO2 reduction

J Jiao, Q Yuan, M Tan, X Han, M Gao, C Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating the synergistic catalytic mechanism between multiple active centers is of great
significance for heterogeneous catalysis; however, finding the corresponding experimental …