Oxygen Evolution/Reduction Reaction Catalysts: From In Situ Monitoring and Reaction Mechanisms to Rational Design

Y Zhao, DP Adiyeri Saseendran, C Huang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are core steps of
various energy conversion and storage systems. However, their sluggish reaction kinetics …

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 …

Tracking the Role of Defect Types in Co3O4 Structural Evolution and Active Motifs during Oxygen Evolution Reaction

R Zhang, L Pan, B Guo, ZF Huang, Z Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Dynamic reconstruction of catalyst active sites is particularly important for metal oxide-
catalyzed oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, the mechanism of how vacancy …

A corrosion-resistant RuMoNi catalyst for efficient and long-lasting seawater oxidation and anion exchange membrane electrolyzer

X Kang, F Yang, Z Zhang, H Liu, S Ge, S Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Direct seawater electrolysis is promising for sustainable hydrogen gas (H2) production.
However, the chloride ions in seawater lead to side reactions and corrosion, which result in …

Amorphous NiFe oxide‐based nanoreactors for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation

X Li, H Zhang, Q Hu, W Zhou, J Shao… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synergy engineering is an important way to enhance the kinetic activity of oxygen‐evolution‐
reaction (OER) electrocatalysts. Here, we fabricated NiFe amorphous nanoreactor (NiFe …

Advanced electrocatalysts with unusual active sites for electrochemical water splitting

H Sun, X Xu, H Kim, Z Shao, WC Jung - InfoMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical water splitting represents a promising technology for green hydrogen
production. To design advanced electrocatalysts, it is crucial to identify their active sites and …

Orthogonal charge transfer by precise positioning of silver single atoms and clusters on carbon nitride for efficient piezocatalytic pure water splitting

C Hu, J Hu, Z Zhu, Y Lu, S Chu, T Ma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developing efficient piezocatalytic systems for two‐electron water splitting (TEWS) with
producing H2 and H2O2 shows great promise to meet the industrial demand. Herein, Ag …

Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction

Y Hu, Y Zheng, J Jin, Y Wang, Y Peng, J Yin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dynamic reconstruction of metal sulphides during electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction
(OER) has hampered the acquisition of legible evidence for comprehensively understanding …

Multi-heterointerfaces for selective and efficient urea production

D Zhang, Y Xue, X Zheng, C Zhang… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A major impediment to industrial urea synthesis is the lack of catalysts with high
selectivity and activity, which inhibits the efficient industrial production of urea. Here, we …

Realizing Two-Electron Transfer in Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets for Energy Storage

J Kang, Y Xue, J Yang, Q Hu, Q Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The theoretical capacity of a given electrode material is ultimately determined by the number
of electrons transferred in each redox center. The design of multi-electron transfer processes …