Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

Multiscale CO2 Electrocatalysis to C2+ Products: Reaction Mechanisms, Catalyst Design, and Device Fabrication

T Yan, X Chen, L Kumari, J Lin, M Li, Q Fan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals, directly from CO2, could foster achievement of
carbon neutral through an alternative electrical approach to the energy-intensive …

A rational design of functional porous frameworks for electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction reaction

C Wang, Z Lv, W Yang, X Feng, B Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (ECO2RR) is considered one of the approaches
with the most potential to achieve lower carbon emissions in the future, but a huge gap still …

Cu-Zn-based alloy/oxide interfaces for enhanced electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ products

ZY Zhang, H Tian, L Bian, SZ Liu, Y Liu… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction to produce multi-carbon (C 2+) hydrocarbons
or oxygenate compounds is a promising route to obtain a renewable fuel of high energy …

Atomically Dispersed Ni–Cu Catalysts for pH‐Universal CO2 Electroreduction

L Zhang, J Feng, S Liu, X Tan, L Wu, S Jia… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
CO2 electroreduction is of great significance to reduce CO2 emissions and complete the
carbon cycle. However, the unavoidable carbonate formation and low CO2 utilization …

Electrochemical nitrate reduction: ammonia synthesis and the beyond

Y Xiong, Y Wang, J Zhou, F Liu, F Hao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Natural nitrogen cycle has been severely disrupted by anthropogenic activities. The overuse
of N‐containing fertilizers induces the increase of nitrate level in surface and ground waters …

Accelerating multielectron reduction at CuxO nanograins interfaces with controlled local electric field

W Guo, S Zhang, J Zhang, H Wu, Y Ma, Y Song… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Regulating electron transport rate and ion concentrations in the local microenvironment of
active site can overcome the slow kinetics and unfavorable thermodynamics of CO2 …

A CO2 electrolyzer tandem cell system for CO2-CO co-feed valorization in a Ni-NC/Cu-catalyzed reaction cascade

T Möller, M Filippi, S Brückner, W Ju… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coupled tandem electrolyzer concepts have been predicted to offer kinetic benefits to
sluggish catalytic reactions thanks to their flexibility of reaction environments in each cell …

Confinement engineering of electrocatalyst surfaces and interfaces

W Li, L Zhao, X Jiang, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The electrocatalytic performance of nanomaterials can be enhanced by fine‐tuning the
coordination environment and number of low‐coordination atoms. Confinement engineering …

Molecular tuning for electrochemical CO2 reduction

J Zhang, J Ding, Y Liu, C Su, H Yang, Y Huang, B Liu - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR) offers unprecedented
opportunities to alleviate the greenhouse effect and produce valuable chemicals/fuels …