Clean and affordable hydrogen fuel from alkaline water splitting: past, recent progress, and future prospects

ZY Yu, Y Duan, XY Feng, X Yu, MR Gao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen economy has emerged as a very promising alternative to the current hydrocarbon
economy, which involves the process of harvesting renewable energy to split water into …

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) to multi-carbon products over copper-based catalysts

AR Woldu, Z Huang, P Zhao, L Hu, D Astruc - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Copper has been recognized as the only heterogeneous catalyst leading to the formation of
various products of hydrocarbons and oxygenates, such as ethanol and ethylene, from the …

Bifunctional WC‐Supported RuO2 Nanoparticles for Robust Water Splitting in Acidic Media

SC Sun, H Jiang, ZY Chen, Q Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report the strong catalyst–support interaction in WC‐supported RuO2 nanoparticles
(RuO2‐WC NPs) anchored on carbon nanosheets with low loading of Ru (4.11 wt.%), which …

MOF-derived electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions

HF Wang, L Chen, H Pang, S Kaskel… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER) are three key reactions for the development of green and sustainable energy …

Recent advances in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution using nanoparticles

J Zhu, L Hu, P Zhao, LYS Lee, KY Wong - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen fuel is considered as the cleanest renewable resource and the primary alternative
to fossil fuels for future energy supply. Sustainable hydrogen generation is the major …

State of the art and prospects in metal–organic framework (MOF)-based and MOF-derived nanocatalysis

Q Wang, D Astruc - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles, also called porous coordination polymers,
are a major part of nanomaterials science, and their role in catalysis is becoming central …

Chemical reactivity under nanoconfinement

AB Grommet, M Feller, R Klajn - Nature nanotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Confining molecules can fundamentally change their chemical and physical properties.
Confinement effects are considered instrumental at various stages of the origins of life, and …

The extra-large calixarene-based MOFs-derived hierarchical composites for photocatalysis of dye: Facile syntheses and contribution of carbon species

C Rao, L Zhou, Y Pan, C Lu, X Qin, H Sakiyama… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The problem of water pollution due to organic dyes has caused serious disturbance and
safety to the ecosystem and people's health. In this work, series of Cu/C composites were …

Anion‐modulated HER and OER activities of 3D Ni–V‐based interstitial compound heterojunctions for high‐efficiency and stable overall water splitting

H Yan, Y Xie, A Wu, Z Cai, L Wang, C Tian… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Overall water splitting driven by a low voltage is crucial for practical H2 evolution, but it is
challenging. Herein, anion‐modulation of 3D Ni–V‐based transition metal interstitial …

Role of Sulfur Vacancies and Undercoordinated Mo Regions in MoS2 Nanosheets toward the Evolution of Hydrogen

L Li, Z Qin, L Ries, S Hong, T Michel, J Yang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Low-dimensional materials have been examined as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen
evolution reaction (HER). Among them, two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides …