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Bo G, Li P, Fan Y, Zheng X, Zhao M, Zhu Q, Fu Y, Li Y, Pang WK, Lai WH, Johannessen B, Thomsen L, Cowie B, Ma T, Wang C, Yeoh GH, Du Y, Dou SX, Xu X. 2D Ferromagnetic M 3GeTe 2 (M = Ni/Fe) for Boosting Intermediates Adsorption toward Faster Water Oxidation. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2310115. [PMID: 38491872 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202310115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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In this work, 2D ferromagnetic M3GeTe2 (MGT, M = Ni/Fe) nanosheets with rich atomic Te vacancies (2D-MGTv) are demonstrated as efficient OER electrocatalyst via a general mechanical exfoliation strategy. X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) and scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) results validate the dominant presence of metal-O moieties and rich Te vacancies, respectively. The formed Te vacancies are active for the adsorption of OH* and O* species while the metal-O moieties promote the O* and OOH* adsorption, contributing synergistically to the faster oxygen evolution kinetics. Consequently, 2D-Ni3GeTe2v exhibits superior OER activity with only 370 mV overpotential to reach the current density of 100 mA cm-2 and turnover frequency (TOF) value of 101.6 s-1 at the overpotential of 200 mV in alkaline media. Furthermore, a 2D-Ni3GeTe2v-based anion-exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis cell (1 cm2) delivers a current density of 1.02 and 1.32 A cm-2 at the voltage of 3 V feeding with 0.1 and 1 m KOH solution, respectively. The demonstrated metal-O coordination with abundant atomic vacancies for ferromagnetic M3GeTe2 and the easily extended preparation strategy would enlighten the rational design and fabrication of other ferromagnetic materials for wider electrocatalytic applications.
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- Guyue Bo
- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Electron Microscopy Center, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
- Australian Synchrotron, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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- Australian Synchrotron, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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- Australian Synchrotron, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Physics and BUAA-UOW Joint Research Centre, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
- Institute of Energy Materials Science (IEMS), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 516 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200093, P. R. China
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- Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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Ye Y, Xu J, Li X, Jian Y, Xie F, Chen J, Jin Y, Yu X, Lee MH, Wang N, Sun S, Meng H. Orbital Occupancy Modulation to Optimize Intermediate Absorption for Efficient Electrocatalysts in Water Electrolysis and Zinc-Ethanol-Air Battery. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2312618. [PMID: 38439598 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Revised: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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Spin engineering is a promising way to modulate the interaction between the metal d-orbital and the intermediates and thus enhance the catalytic kinetics. Herein, an innovative strategy is reported to modulate the spin state of Co by regulating its coordinating environment. o-c-CoSe2 -Ni is prepared as pre-catalyst, then in situ electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and in situ Raman spectroscopy are employed to prove phase transition, and CoOOH/Co3 O4 is formed on the surface as active sites. In hybrid water electrolysis, the voltage has a negative shift, and in zinc-ethanol-air battery, the charging voltage is lowered and the cycling stability is greatly increased. Coordinated atom substitution and crystalline symmetry change are combined to regulate the absorption ability of reaction intermediates with balanced optimal adsorption. Coordinated atom substitution weakens the adsorption while the crystalline symmetry change strengthens the adsorption. Importantly, the tetrahedral sites are introduced by Ni doping which enables the co-existence of four-coordinated sites and six-coordination sites in o-c-CoSe2 -Ni. The dz2 + dx2 -y2 orbital occupancy decreases after the atomic substitution, while increases after replacing the CoSe6 -Oh field with CoSe6 -Oh /CoSe4 -Td . This work explores a new direction for the preparation of efficient catalysts for water electrolysis and innovative zinc-ethanol-air battery.
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- Yanting Ye
- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275, China
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- Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510275, China
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Department of Physics, Tamkang University, New Taipei, 25137, Taiwan
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Center Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, Québec, J3X 1P7, Canada
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- Siyuan Laboratory, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510632, China
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Guo T, Xu X, Xu Z, You F, Fan X, Liu J, Wang Z. Symmetry Breaking Induced Amorphization of Cobalt-Based Catalyst for Boosted CO 2 Photoreduction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2402071. [PMID: 38382487 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202402071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to energy carriers is intriguing in the industry but kinetically hard to fulfil due to the lack of rationally designed catalysts. A promising way to improve the efficiency and selectivity of such reduction is to break the structural symmetry of catalysts by manipulating coordination. Here, inspired by analogous CoO6 and CoSe6 octahedral structural motifs of the Co(OH)2 and CoSe, a hetero-anionic coordination strategy is proposed to construct a symmetry-breaking photocatalyst prototype of oxygen-deficient Se-doped cobalt hydroxide upon first-principles calculations. Such involvement of large-size Se atoms in CoO6 octahedral frameworks experimentally lead to the switching of semiconductor type of cobalt hydroxide from p to n, generation of oxygen defects, and amorphization. The resultant oxygen-deficient Se,O-coordinated Co-based amorphous nanosheets exhibit impressive photocatalytic performance of CO2 to CO with a generation rate of 60.7 µmol g-1 h-1 in the absence of photosensitizer and scavenger, superior to most of the Co-based photocatalysts. This work establishes a correlation between the symmetry-breaking of catalytic sites and CO2 photoreduction performances, opening up a new paradigm in the design of amorphous photocatalysts for CO2 reduction.
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- Tianqi Guo
- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, 4715-330, Portugal
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- The Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental System Optimization, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental System Optimization, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China
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- College of Textile and Clothing, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China
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- Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- The Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental System Optimization, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China
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- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, 4715-330, Portugal
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Sovizi S, Angizi S, Ahmad Alem SA, Goodarzi R, Taji Boyuk MRR, Ghanbari H, Szoszkiewicz R, Simchi A, Kruse P. Plasma Processing and Treatment of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Tuning Properties and Defect Engineering. Chem Rev 2023; 123:13869-13951. [PMID: 38048483 PMCID: PMC10756211 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer fascinating opportunities for fundamental nanoscale science and various technological applications. They are a promising platform for next generation optoelectronics and energy harvesting devices due to their exceptional characteristics at the nanoscale, such as tunable bandgap and strong light-matter interactions. The performance of TMD-based devices is mainly governed by the structure, composition, size, defects, and the state of their interfaces. Many properties of TMDs are influenced by the method of synthesis so numerous studies have focused on processing high-quality TMDs with controlled physicochemical properties. Plasma-based methods are cost-effective, well controllable, and scalable techniques that have recently attracted researchers' interest in the synthesis and modification of 2D TMDs. TMDs' reactivity toward plasma offers numerous opportunities to modify the surface of TMDs, including functionalization, defect engineering, doping, oxidation, phase engineering, etching, healing, morphological changes, and altering the surface energy. Here we comprehensively review all roles of plasma in the realm of TMDs. The fundamental science behind plasma processing and modification of TMDs and their applications in different fields are presented and discussed. Future perspectives and challenges are highlighted to demonstrate the prominence of TMDs and the importance of surface engineering in next-generation optoelectronic applications.
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- Saeed Sovizi
- Faculty of
Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada
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- Chair in
Chemistry of Polymeric Materials, Montanuniversität
Leoben, Leoben 8700, Austria
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- School of
Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran
University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, 16846-13114, Tehran, Iran
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- School of
Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran
University of Science and Technology (IUST), Narmak, 16846-13114, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of
Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute for Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology, Sharif University of
Technology, 14588-89694 Tehran, Iran
- Center for
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Institute for Convergence Science
& Technology, Sharif University of Technology, 14588-89694 Tehran, Iran
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada
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Xu Y, Wang R, Feng C, Zhang X, Wang N, Zhang Q, Xie M, Xu Y, Jiao Y, Chen J. Controlling the electronic structure of Fe-MOF electrocatalyst for enhanced water splitting and urea oxidation: A plasma-assisted approach. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 650:1290-1300. [PMID: 37478746 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.07.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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The design of high-performance electrocatalysts for water splitting and urea oxidation reactions requires effective regulation of their electronic structure and electrochemical surface area (ECSA). In this study, we developed an in-situ grown Fe-MOF electrocatalyst on Fe foam (FF) by using a combination of easy hydrothermal synthesis and advanced plasma technology (Fe-MOF/FF). By varying the plasma treatment time, we could tailor the surface morphology and electronic structure of the Fe-MOF/FF microrods. Meanwhile, density functional theory (DFT) calculations investigated the catalytic mechanism, revealing that plasma-treated Fe-MOF/FF has a lower energy barrier for water splitting and H* adsorption during the HER process, and higher catalytic activity for UOR. Additionally, the electronic density of optimized Fe-MOF/FF is significantly expanded near the Fermi level. Remarkably, our catalysts achieved exceptional activity in both water splitting and urea electrolysis, requiring only 1.54 V and 1.472 V, respectively, at 10 mA cm-2, with excellent stability. Our findings highlight the potential of plasma technology as a powerful tool for developing multifunctional electrocatalysts for clean energy and industrial wastewater treatment applications.
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- Yanqiu Xu
- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
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Yun Q, Ge Y, Shi Z, Liu J, Wang X, Zhang A, Huang B, Yao Y, Luo Q, Zhai L, Ge J, Peng Y, Gong C, Zhao M, Qin Y, Ma C, Wang G, Wa Q, Zhou X, Li Z, Li S, Zhai W, Yang H, Ren Y, Wang Y, Li L, Ruan X, Wu Y, Chen B, Lu Q, Lai Z, He Q, Huang X, Chen Y, Zhang H. Recent Progress on Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials. Chem Rev 2023. [PMID: 37962496 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials. Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases, which rarely exist in their bulk counterparts, or amorphous phase have been prepared using carefully controlled reaction conditions. Together these methods are beginning to enable phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN), i.e., the synthesis of nanomaterials with unconventional phases and the transformation between different phases, to obtain desired properties and functions. This Review summarizes the research progress in the field of PEN. First, we present representative strategies for the direct synthesis of unconventional phases and modulation of phase transformation in diverse kinds of nanomaterials. We cover the synthesis of nanomaterials ranging from metal nanostructures such as Au, Ag, Cu, Pd, and Ru, and their alloys; metal oxides, borides, and carbides; to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and 2D layered materials. We review synthesis and growth methods ranging from wet-chemical reduction and seed-mediated epitaxial growth to chemical vapor deposition (CVD), high pressure phase transformation, and electron and ion-beam irradiation. After that, we summarize the significant influence of phase on the various properties of unconventional-phase nanomaterials. We also discuss the potential applications of the developed unconventional-phase nanomaterials in different areas including catalysis, electrochemical energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), solar cells, optoelectronics, and sensing. Finally, we discuss existing challenges and future research directions in PEN.
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- Qinbai Yun
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering & Energy Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 627833, Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Institute of Molecular Aggregation Science, Department of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Institute of Molecular Aggregation Science, Department of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials, School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Flexible Electronics (SoFE), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), Nanjing 211816, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center (NPMM), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, China
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Gu H, Lan J, Hu H, Jia F, Ai Z, Zhang L, Liu X. Surface oxygen vacancy-dependent molecular oxygen activation for propane combustion over α-MnO 2. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 460:132499. [PMID: 37683342 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Oxygen vacancies (OV), as the sites of molecular oxygen adsorption and activation, play an important role in the catalytic combustion process of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Revealing the relationship between OV concentration and molecular oxygen activation behavior is of significance to construct the efficient catalysts. Herein, α-MnO2 with different OV concentrations was prepared to investigate the molecular oxygen activation for C3H8 combustion. It is disclosed that the enhanced OV concentration in α-MnO2 induced the reconfiguration of surface metal atoms, resulting in the transformation of oxygen activation configuration from end-on mode to side-on mode. Oxygen molecules in side-on mode possessed more localized electron density and weaker coordination bond strength with surrounding Mn atoms, which were more favorable to adsorb C3H8 molecules and activate C-H bond for the improved combustion performance. This work provides a new understanding to reveal that the increased OV concentration contributes to more efficient VOCs combustion.
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- Huayu Gu
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China; School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China.
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Zeng P, Meng Y, Liu Z, Sun GQ, Li XY, Yang XY, Ye CF, Li Y, Liu JP, Chen LH, Su BL, Wang YL. N-Doping Coupled with Co-Vacancies Activating Sulfur Atoms and Narrowing Bandgap for CoS Toward Synergistically Accelerating Hydrogen Evolution. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2301279. [PMID: 37086130 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202301279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The combination of hetero-elemental doping and vacancy engineering will be developed as one of the most efficient strategies to design excellent electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, a novel strategy for N-doping coupled with Co-vacancies is demonstrated to precisely activate inert S atoms adjacent to Co-vacancies and significantly improve charge transfer for CoS toward accelerating HER. In this strategy, N-doping favors the presence of Co-vacancies, due to greatly decreasing their formation energy. The as-developed strategy realizes the upshift of S 3p orbitals followed by more overlapping between S 3py and H 1s orbitals, which results in the favorable hydrogen atom adsorption free energy change (ΔGH ) to activate inert S atoms as newborn catalytical sites. Besides, this strategy synergistically decreases the bandgap of CoS, thereby achieving satisfactory electrical conductivity and low charge-transfer resistance for the as-obtained electrocatalysts. With an excellent HER activity of -89.0 mV at 10.0 mA cm-2 in alkaline environments, this work provides a new approach to unlocking inert sites and significantly improving charge transfer toward cobalt-based materials for highly efficient HER.
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- Ping Zeng
- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI), University of Namur 61 rue de Bruxelles, Namur, 5000, Belgium
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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Thao NTT, Kim K, Ryu JH, An BS, Nayak AK, Jang JU, Na KH, Choi WY, Ali G, Chae KH, Akbar M, Chung KY, Cho HS, Park JH, Kim BH, Han H. Colossal Dielectric Perovskites of Calcium Copper Titanate (CaCu 3 Ti 4 O 12 ) with Low-Iridium Dopants Enables Ultrahigh Mass Activity for the Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 10:e2207695. [PMID: 36991522 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202207695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) under acidic conditions becomes of significant importance for the practical use of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer. In particular, maximizing the mass activity of iridium (Ir) is one of the maiden issues. Herein, the authors discover that the Ir-doped calcium copper titanate (CaCu₃Ti₄O₁₂, CCTO) perovskite exhibits ultrahigh mass activity up to 1000 A gIr -1 for the acidic OER, which is 66 times higher than that of the benchmark catalyst, IrO2 . By substituting Ti with Ir in CCTO, metal-oxygen (M-O) covalency can be significantly increased leading to the reduced energy barrier for charge transfer. Further, highly polarizable CCTO perovskite referred to as "colossal dielectric", possesses low defect formation energy for oxygen vacancy inducing a high number of oxygen vacancies in Ir-doped CCTO (Ir-CCTO). Electron transfer occurs from the oxygen vacancies and Ti to the substituted Ir consequentially resulting in the electron-rich Ir and -deficient Ti sites. Thus, favorable adsorptions of oxygen intermediates can take place at Ti sites while the Ir ensures efficient charge supplies during OER, taking a top position of the volcano plot. Simultaneously, the introduced Ir dopants form nanoclusters at the surface of Ir-CCTO, which can boost catalytic activity for the acidic OER.
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- Nguyen Thi Thu Thao
- Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, 05029, 120 Neungdong-ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 34129, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, 03722, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation, 27469, 50 Daehak-ro, Chungju, Republic of Korea
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- Analysis Center for Energy Research, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 34129, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, 05029, 120 Neungdong-ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, 05029, 120 Neungdong-ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Metal and Materials Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University, 25457, 7 Jukheongil, Gangneung, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
- Smart Hydrogen Energy Center, Gangneung-Wonju National University, 25457, 7 Jukheongil, Gangneung, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Metal and Materials Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University, 25457, 7 Jukheongil, Gangneung, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
- Smart Hydrogen Energy Center, Gangneung-Wonju National University, 25457, 7 Jukheongil, Gangneung, Gangwon, Republic of Korea
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- U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCASE), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Advanced Analysis Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 02792, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Energy Storage Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 02792, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Division of Energy and Environment Technology, KIST School, Korea University of Science and Technology, 02792, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Energy Storage Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 02792, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Division of Energy and Environment Technology, KIST School, Korea University of Science and Technology, 02792, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Hydrogen Research Department, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 34129, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34129, Republic of Korea
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- Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 34129, 152 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, 05029, 120 Neungdong-ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Wang X, Mao Z, Mao X, Hu X, Gao F, Gao M, Wu Q, Lyu X, Du A, Xu X, Jia Y, Wang L. Dual Integrating Oxygen and Sulphur on Surface of CoTe Nanorods Triggers Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023; 10:e2206204. [PMID: 36703610 PMCID: PMC10037960 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202206204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The bottleneck of large-scale implementation of electrocatalytic water-splitting technology lies in lacking inexpensive, efficient, and durable catalysts to accelerate the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction kinetics. Owing to more metallic features, transition metal telluride (TMT) with good electronic conductivity holds promising potential as an ideal type of electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), whereas most TMTs reported up to now still show unsatisfactory OER performance that is far below corresponding sulfide and selenide counterparts. Here, the activation and stabilization of cobalt telluride (CoTe) nanoarrays toward OER through dual integration of sulfur (S) doping and surface oxidization is reported. The as-synthesized CoO@S-CoTe catalyst exhibits a low overpotential of only 246 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and a long-term stability of more than 36 h, outperforming commercial RuO2 and other reported telluride-based OER catalysts. The combined experimental and theoretical results reveal that the enhanced OER performance stems from increased active sites exposure, improved charge transfer ability, and optimized electronic state. This work will provide a valuable guidance to release the catalytic potential of telluride-based OER catalysts via interface modulating engineering.
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- Xin Wang
- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical EngineeringQueensland University of TechnologyBrisbaneQLD4000Australia
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- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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- Department of ChemistryInstitute of Biomimetic Materials & ChemistryAnhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic MaterialsDivision of Nanomaterials & ChemistryHefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the MicroscaleInstitute of EnergyHefei Comprehensive National Science CenterUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026P. R. China
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- Department of ChemistryInstitute of Biomimetic Materials & ChemistryAnhui Engineering Laboratory of Biomimetic MaterialsDivision of Nanomaterials & ChemistryHefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the MicroscaleInstitute of EnergyHefei Comprehensive National Science CenterUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026P. R. China
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- Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials ScienceAustralian Institute for Innovative MaterialsUniversity of WollongongWollongongNSW2500Australia
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringShenyang Ligong UniversityShenyang110159P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical EngineeringQueensland University of TechnologyBrisbaneQLD4000Australia
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- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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- College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310032P. R. China
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Hayat A, Sohail M, Ali H, Taha TA, Qazi HIA, Ur Rahman N, Ajmal Z, Kalam A, Al-Sehemi AG, Wageh S, Amin MA, Palamanit A, Nawawi WI, Newair EF, Orooji Y. Recent Advances and Future Perspectives of Metal-Based Electrocatalysts for Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting. CHEM REC 2023; 23:e202200149. [PMID: 36408911 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202200149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Revised: 10/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Recently, the growing demand for a renewable and sustainable fuel alternative is contingent on fuel cell technologies. Even though it is regarded as an environmentally sustainable method of generating fuel for immediate concerns, it must be enhanced to make it extraordinarily affordable, and environmentally sustainable. Hydrogen (H2 ) synthesis by electrochemical water splitting (ECWS) is considered one of the foremost potential prospective methods for renewable energy output and H2 society implementation. Existing massive H2 output is mostly reliant on the steaming reformation of carbon fuels that yield CO2 together with H2 and is a finite resource. ECWS is a viable, efficient, and contamination-free method for H2 evolution. Consequently, developing reliable and cost-effective technology for ECWS was a top priority for scientists around the globe. Utilizing renewable technologies to decrease total fuel utilization is crucial for H2 evolution. Capturing and transforming the fuel from the ambient through various renewable solutions for water splitting (WS) could effectively reduce the need for additional electricity. ECWS is among the foremost potential prospective methods for renewable energy output and the achievement of a H2 -based economy. For the overall water splitting (OWS), several transition-metal-based polyfunctional metal catalysts for both cathode and anode have been synthesized. Furthermore, the essential to the widespread adoption of such technology is the development of reduced-price, super functional electrocatalysts to substitute those, depending on metals. Many metal-premised electrocatalysts for both the anode and cathode have been designed for the WS process. The attributes of H2 and oxygen (O2 ) dynamics interactions on the electrodes of water electrolysis cells and the fundamental techniques for evaluating the achievement of electrocatalysts are outlined in this paper. Special emphasis is paid to their fabrication, electrocatalytic performance, durability, and measures for enhancing their efficiency. In addition, prospective ideas on metal-based WS electrocatalysts based on existing problems are presented. It is anticipated that this review will offer a straight direction toward the engineering and construction of novel polyfunctional electrocatalysts encompassing superior efficiency in a suitable WS technique.
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- Asif Hayat
- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004, Jinhua, Zhejiang, P. R. China.,College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004, Jinhua, China
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- Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 313001, Huzhou, P. R. China
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- Multiscale Computational Materials Facility, Key Laboratory of Eco-Materials Advanced Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, 350100, Fuzhou, China
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- Physics Department, College of Science, Jouf University, PO Box 2014, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia.,Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt
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- College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 400065, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physics, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, KP, Pakistan
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xian, P. R. China
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- Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, 61413, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.,Physics and Engineering Mathematics Department, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, 32952, Menouf, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, 21944, Taif, Saudi Arabia
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- Energy Technology Program, Department of Specialized Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, 15 Karnjanavanich Rd., 90110, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
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- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 02600, Cawangan Perlis, Arau Perlis, Malaysia
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524, Sohag, Egypt
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- College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, 321004, Jinhua, China
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Cao LM, Hu CG, Li HH, Huang HB, Ding LW, Zhang J, Wu JX, Du ZY, He CT, Chen XM. Molecule-Enhanced Electrocatalysis of Sustainable Oxygen Evolution Using Organoselenium Functionalized Metal-Organic Nanosheets. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:1144-1154. [PMID: 36538569 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Remolding the reactivity of metal active sites is critical to facilitate renewable electricity-powered water electrolysis. Doping heteroatoms, such as Se, into a metal crystal lattice has been considered an effective approach, yet usually suffers from loss of functional heteroatoms during harsh electrocatalytic conditions, thus leading to the gradual inactivation of the catalysts. Here, we report a new heteroatom-containing molecule-enhanced strategy toward sustainable oxygen evolution improvement. An organoselenium ligand, bis(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)selenide containing robust C-Se-C covalent bonds equipped in the precatalyst of ultrathin metal-organic nanosheets Co-SeMON, is revealed to significantly enhance the catalytic mass activity of the cobalt site by 25 times, as well as extend the catalyst operation time in alkaline conditions by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude compared with these reported metal selenides. A combination of various in situ/ex situ spectroscopic techniques, ab initio molecular dynamics, and density functional theory calculations unveiled the organoselenium intensified mechanism, in which the nonclassical bonding of Se to O-containing intermediates endows adsorption-energy regulation beyond the conventional scaling relationship. Our results showcase the great potential of molecule-enhanced catalysts for highly efficient and economical water oxidation.
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- Li-Ming Cao
- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Li J, He Q, Lin Y, Han L, Tao K. MOF-Derived Iron–Cobalt Bimetallic Selenides for Water Electrolysis with High-Efficiency Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:19031-19038. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Jiangning Li
- School of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, P. R. China
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, P. R. China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, P. R. China
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Barua S, Balčiūnaitė A, Vaičiūnienė J, Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė L, Norkus E. Three-Dimensional Au(NiMo)/Ti Catalysts for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:7901. [PMID: 36431387 PMCID: PMC9693304 DOI: 10.3390/ma15227901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In this study, NiMo catalysts that have different metal loadings in the range of ca. 28-106 µg cm-2 were electrodeposited on the Ti substrate followed by their decoration with a very low amount of Au-crystallites in the range of ca. 1-5 µg cm-2 using the galvanic displacement method. The catalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) was evaluated on the NiMo/Ti and Au(NiMo)/Ti catalysts in an alkaline medium. It was found that among the investigated NiMo/Ti and Au(NiMo)/Ti catalysts, the Au(NiMo)/Ti-3 catalyst with the Au loading of 5.2 µg cm-2 gives the lowest overpotential of 252 mV for the HER to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm-2. The current densities for HER increase ca. 1.1-2.7 and ca. 1.1-2.2 times on the NiMo/Ti and Au(NiMo)/Ti catalysts, respectively, at -0.424 V, with an increase in temperature from 25 °C to 75 °C.
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Wang J, Yang H, Li F, Li L, Wu J, Liu S, Cheng T, Xu Y, Shao Q, Huang X. Single-site Pt-doped RuO 2 hollow nanospheres with interstitial C for high-performance acidic overall water splitting. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabl9271. [PMID: 35235348 PMCID: PMC8890715 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl9271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Realizing stable and efficient overall water splitting is highly desirable for sustainable and efficient hydrogen production yet challenging because of the rapid deactivation of electrocatalysts during the acidic oxygen evolution process. Here, we report that the single-site Pt-doped RuO2 hollow nanospheres (SS Pt-RuO2 HNSs) with interstitial C can serve as highly active and stable electrocatalysts for overall water splitting in 0.5 M H2SO4. The performance toward overall water splitting have surpassed most of the reported catalysts. Impressively, the SS Pt-RuO2 HNSs exhibit promising stability in polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer at 100 mA cm-2 during continuous operation for 100 hours. Detailed experiments reveal that the interstitial C can elongate Ru-O and Pt-O bonds, and the presence of SS Pt can readily vary the electronic properties of RuO2 and improve the OER activity by reducing the energy barriers and enhancing the dissociation energy of *O species.
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- Juan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Center of Hydrogen Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Future Material Innovation Center, Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Corresponding author. (Y.X.); (X.H.)
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Corresponding author. (Y.X.); (X.H.)
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Xu Y, Fo Y, Lv H, Cui X, Liu G, Zhou X, Jiang L. Anderson-Type Polyoxometalate-Assisted Synthesis of Defect-Rich Doped 1T/2H-MoSe 2 Nanosheets for Efficient Seawater Splitting and Mg/Seawater Batteries. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:10246-10256. [PMID: 35184551 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Designing high-performance hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts is crucial for seawater splitting. Herein, we demonstrate a facile Anderson-type polyoxometalate-assisted synthesis route to prepare defect-rich doped 1T/2H-MoSe2 nanosheets. As demonstrated, the optimized defect-rich doped 1T/2H-MoSe2 nanosheets display low overpotentials of 116 and 274 mV to gain 10 mA cm-2 in acidic and simulated seawater for the HER, respectively. A magnesium (Mg)/seawater battery was fabricated with the defect-rich doped 1T/2H-MoSe2 nanosheet cathode, displaying the highest power density of up to 7.69 mW cm-2 and stable galvanostatic discharging over 24 h. The theoretical and experimental investigations show that the superior HER and battery performances of the heteroatom-doped MoSe2 nanosheets are attributed to both the improved intrinsic catalytic activity (effective activation of water and favorable subsequent hydrogen desorption) and the abundant active sites, benefiting from the favorable catalytic factors of the doped heteroatom, 1T phase, and defects. Our work presents an intriguing structural modulation strategy to design high-performance catalysts toward both HER and Mg/seawater batteries.
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- Yingshuang Xu
- Nanomaterial & Electrocatalysis Laboratory, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- College of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, P. R. China
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- Nanomaterial & Electrocatalysis Laboratory, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- Nanomaterial & Electrocatalysis Laboratory, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- Nanomaterial & Electrocatalysis Laboratory, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- College of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, P. R. China
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- Nanomaterial & Electrocatalysis Laboratory, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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Pan C, Dong Y, Chen X, Yu B, Huang M, Liu Z. Plasma‐assisted Engineering of MOF Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemElectroChem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202101252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Chengcheng Pan
- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao 266100 China
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Li Z, Yue Y, Peng J, Luo Z. Phase engineering two-dimensional nanostructures for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Yang B, Gu C, Zhao Q, Zhou G, Xu L, Pang H. Reactive template-engaged synthesis of Ni-doped Co 3S 4 hollow and porous nanospheres with optimal electronic modulation toward high-efficiency electrochemical oxygen evolution. Inorg Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qi00896c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Ni-doped Co3S4 hollow and porous nanoflowers are synthesized via a self-sacrificial reactive template-engaged strategy. The obtained sample with optimal electronic structure exhibits excellent oxygen evolution performance.
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- Bing Yang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, Jiangsu, PR China
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- College of Science, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, PR China
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Yang J, Wang Y, Yang J, Pang Y, Zhu X, Lu Y, Wu Y, Wang J, Chen H, Kou Z, Shen Z, Pan Z, Wang J. Quench-Induced Surface Engineering Boosts Alkaline Freshwater and Seawater Oxygen Evolution Reaction of Porous NiCo 2 O 4 Nanowires. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2106187. [PMID: 34862718 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202106187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) by efficient catalysts is a crucial step for the conversion of renewable energy into hydrogen fuel, in which surface/near-surface engineering has been recognized as an effective strategy for enhancing the intrinsic activities of the OER electrocatalysts. Herein, a facile quenching approach is demonstrated that can simultaneously enable the required surface metal doping and vacancy generation in reconfiguring the desired surface of the NiCo2 O4 catalyst, giving rise to greatly enhanced OER activities in both alkaline freshwater and seawater electrolytes. As a result, the quenched-engineered NiCo2 O4 nanowire electrode achieves a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a low overpotential of 258 mV in 1 m KOH electrolyte, showing the remarkable catalytic performance towards OER. More impressively, the same electrode also displays extraordinary activity in an alkaline seawater environment and only needs 293 mV to reach 10 mA cm-2 . Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal the strong electronic synergies among the metal cations in the quench-derived catalyst, where the metal doping regulates the electronic structure, thereby yielding near-optimal adsorption energies for OER intermediates and giving rise to superior activity. This study provides a new quenching method to obtain high-performance transition metal oxide catalysts for freshwater/seawater electrocatalysis.
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- Jin Yang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117574, Singapore
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117574, Singapore
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Recent Progress on Transition Metal Based Layered Double Hydroxides Tailored for Oxygen Electrode Reactions. Catalysts 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/catal11111394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), namely, so-called oxygen electrode reactions, are two fundamental half-cell reactions in the energy storage and conversion devices, e.g., zinc–air batteries and fuel cells. However, the oxygen electrode reactions suffer from sluggish kinetics, large overpotential and complicated reaction paths, and thus require efficient and stable electrocatalysts. Transition-metal-based layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and their derivatives have displayed excellent catalytic performance, suggesting a major contribution to accelerate electrochemical reactions. The rational regulation of electronic structure, defects, and coordination environment of active sites via various functionalized strategies, including tuning the chemical composition, structural architecture, and topotactic transformation process of LDHs precursors, has a great influence on the resulting electrocatalytic behavior. In addition, an in-depth understanding of the structural performance and chemical-composition-performance relationships of LDHs-based electrocatalysts can promote further rational design and optimization of high-performance electrocatalysts. Finally, prospects for the design of efficient and stable LDHs-based materials, for mass-production and large-scale application in practice, are discussed.
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Sun Y, Li X, Zhang T, Xu K, Yang Y, Chen G, Li C, Xie Y. Nitrogen‐Doped Cobalt Diselenide with Cubic Phase Maintained for Enhanced Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202109116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Yiqiang Sun
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education Anhui University Hefei Anhui 230601 P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of Jinan Jinan 250022 P. R. China
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- Department of Physics Nanjing Normal University Nanjing Jiangsu 210023 P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education Anhui University Hefei Anhui 230601 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education Anhui University Hefei Anhui 230601 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of Jinan Jinan 250022 P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of Jinan Jinan 250022 P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China
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Gu K, Wang D, Xie C, Wang T, Huang G, Liu Y, Zou Y, Tao L, Wang S. Defect-Rich High-Entropy Oxide Nanosheets for Efficient 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Electrooxidation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:20253-20258. [PMID: 34173309 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202107390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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High-entropy oxides (HEOs), a new concept of entropy stabilization, exhibit unique structures and fascinating properties, and are thus important class of materials with significant technological potential. However, the conventional high-temperature synthesis techniques tend to afford micron-scale HEOs with low surface area, and the catalytic activity of available HEOs is still far from satisfactory because of their limited exposed active sites and poor intrinsic activity. Here we report a low-temperature plasma strategy for preparing defect-rich HEOs nanosheets with high surface area, and for the first time employ them for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) electrooxidation. Owing to the nanosheets structure, abundant oxygen vacancies, and high surface area, the quinary (FeCrCoNiCu)3 O4 nanosheets deliver improved activity for HMF oxidation with lower onset potential and faster kinetics, outperforming that of HEOs prepared by high-temperature method. Our method opens new opportunities for synthesizing nanostructured HEOs with great potential applications.
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- Kaizhi Gu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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Zhang K, Zou R. Advanced Transition Metal-Based OER Electrocatalysts: Current Status, Opportunities, and Challenges. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2100129. [PMID: 34114334 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202100129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an important half-reaction involved in many electrochemical applications, such as water splitting and rechargeable metal-air batteries. However, the sluggish kinetics of its four-electron transfer process becomes a bottleneck to the performance enhancement. Thus, rational design of electrocatalysts for OER based on thorough understanding of mechanisms and structure-activity relationship is of vital significance. This review begins with the introduction of OER mechanisms which include conventional adsorbate evolution mechanism and lattice-oxygen-mediated mechanism. The reaction pathways and related intermediates are discussed in detail, and several descriptors which greatly assist in catalyst screen and optimization are summarized. Some important parameters suggested as measurement criteria for OER are also mentioned and discussed. Then, recent developments and breakthroughs in experimental achievements on transition metal-based OER electrocatalysts are reviewed to reveal the novel design principles. Finally, some perspectives and future directions are proposed for further catalytic performance enhancement and deeper understanding of catalyst design. It is believed that iterative improvements based on the understanding of mechanisms and fundamental design principles are essential to realize the applications of efficient transition metal-based OER electrocatalysts for electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies.
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- Kexin Zhang
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Theory and Technology of Advanced Battery Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- Institute of Clean Energy, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Theory and Technology of Advanced Battery Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- Institute of Clean Energy, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Sun Y, Li X, Zhang T, Xu K, Yang Y, Chen G, Li C, Xie Y. Nitrogen-Doped Cobalt Diselenide with Cubic Phase Maintained for Enhanced Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:21575-21582. [PMID: 34355481 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The introduction of heteroatoms is one of the most important ways to modulate the intrinsic electronic structure of electrocatalysts to improve their catalytic activity. However, for transition metal chalcogenides with highly symmetric crystal structure (HS-TMC), the introduction of heteroatoms, especially those with large atomic radius, often induces large lattice distortion and vacancy defects, which may lead to structural phase transition of doped materials or structural phase reconstruction during the catalytic reaction. Such unpredictable situations will make it difficult to explore the connection between the intrinsic electronic structure of doped catalysts and catalytic activity. Herein, taking thermodynamically stable cubic CoSe2 phase as an example, we demonstrate that nitrogen incorporation can effectively regulate the intrinsic electronic structure of HS-TMC with structural phase stability and thus promote its electrocatalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution activity (HER). In contrast, the introduction of phosphorus can lead to structural phase transition from cubic CoSe2 to orthorhombic phase, and the structural phase of phosphorus-doped CoSe2 is unstable for HER.
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- Yiqiang Sun
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230601, P. R. China.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210023, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230601, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Functionalized Materials, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230601, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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Jin C, Zhai P, Wei Y, Chen Q, Wang X, Yang W, Xiao J, He Q, Liu Q, Gong Y. Ni(OH) 2 Templated Synthesis of Ultrathin Ni 3 S 2 Nanosheets as Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2102097. [PMID: 34228390 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202102097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Ultrathin nickel (Ni)-based sulfide nanosheets have been reported as excellent electrocatalysts for overall water splitting; however, the uncontrollability over thickness due to the nonlayered structure still hampers its practical application. Herein, a simple topochemical conversion strategy is employed to synthesize cobalt-doped Ni3 S2 (Co-Ni3 S2 ) ultrathin nanosheets on Ni foam. The Co-Ni3 S2 nanosheets are controlled synthesized by using Co-Ni(OH)2 ultrathin nanosheets as templates with anneal and sulfurization treatment, showing exceptional electrocatalytic activity. This template-assisted method can also be applied to obtain Ni, NiO, and NiPx nanosheets, providing a universal strategy to synthesize ultrathin nanosheets of nonlayered materials. The overall water splitting of this Co-Ni3 S2 ultrathin nanosheets achieves a low voltage of 1.54 V at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and high durability in 1 m KOH, comparable to the best performance of electrochemical water splitting ever reported. The detailed structural transformation of Ni-based sulfides in the catalytic process and its mechanism are further explored both experimentally and theoretically.
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- Chunqiao Jin
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Process and Technology for Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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Gu K, Wang D, Xie C, Wang T, Huang G, Liu Y, Zou Y, Tao L, Wang S. Defect‐Rich High‐Entropy Oxide Nanosheets for Efficient 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural Electrooxidation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202107390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Kaizhi Gu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University Changsha 410082 China
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Chen J, Chen H, Yu T, Li R, Wang Y, Shao Z, Song S. Recent Advances in the Understanding of the Surface Reconstruction of Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts and Materials Development. ELECTROCHEM ENERGY R 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s41918-021-00104-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Feng J, Cui M, Liu H, Zhou F, Bi S, Zhang D. Design of an efficient photocatalyst: a type II heterojunction for enhanced hydrogen production driven by visible light. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:11893-11899. [PMID: 33997874 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00347j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Solar hydrogen production, which is an eco-friendly method to obtain energy, is still far away from wide commercialization due to the lack of an efficient catalyst. Effective calculations can reduce trial and error costs and provide mechanistic explanations while exploring efficient catalysts. Herein, a type II heterojunction Mg-containing-porphyrin/g-C3N4 is proven to be an efficient photocatalyst by using a combination of DFT and many-body Green's function theory. Our results show that the heterojunction can significantly enhance the absorption of visible light and realize the separation of photogenerated electrons and holes after excitation. Subsequently, water absorbing on the excited surface decomposes into H+ and OH- easily, and then produces H2 and O2 with reduced free energy. Our investigation and explanation can provide theoretical support for designing photonic devices based on porphyrin and g-C3N4, and deepen the understanding of how H2O splits into H2.
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- Jin Feng
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
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Gao M, Wang Z, Sun S, Jiang D, Chen M. Interfacial engineering of CeO 2 on NiCoP nanoarrays for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 32:195704. [PMID: 33508817 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abe0e5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Transition metal phosphides (TMP)-based oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts constructed by interface engineering strategy have a broad prospect due to their low cost and good performance. Herein, a novel CeO2/NiCoP nanoarray with intimate phosphide (NiCoP)-oxide (CeO2) interface was developed via in situ generation on nickel foam (NF). This structure is conducive to increasing active sites and accelerating charge transfer, and may be conducive to regulating electronic structure and adsorption energy. As expected, optimal 1.4-CeO2/NiCoP/NF delivers a low overpotential of 249 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm-2 with a Tafel slope of 77.2 mV dec-1. CeO2/NiCoP/NF boasts one of the best OER catalytic materials among recently reported phosphides (TMP)-based OER catalysts and composite catalysts involving CeO2. This work provides an effective strategy for the construction of hetero-structure with CeO2 with oxygen vacancies to improve the OER performance of phosphides.
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- Menghan Gao
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China
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Song Y, Xu B, Liao T, Guo J, Wu Y, Sun Z. Electronic Structure Tuning of 2D Metal (Hydr)oxides Nanosheets for Electrocatalysis. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2002240. [PMID: 32851763 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202002240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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2D metal (hydr)oxide nanosheets have captured increasing interest in electrocatalytic applications aroused by their high specific surface areas, enriched chemically active sites, tunable physiochemical properties, etc. In particular, the electrocatalytic reactivities of materials greatly rely on their surface electronic structures. Generally speaking, the electronic structures of catalysts can be well adjusted via controlling their morphologies, defects, and heterostructures. In this Review, the latest advances in 2D metal (hydr)oxide nanosheets are first reviewed, including the applications in electrocatalysis for the hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen reduction reaction, and oxygen evolution reaction. Then, the electronic structure-property relationships of 2D metal (hydr)oxide nanosheets are discussed to draw a picture of enhancing the electrocatalysis performances through a series of electronic structure tuning strategies. Finally, perspectives on the current challenges and the trends for the future design of 2D metal (hydr)oxide electrocatalysts with prominent catalytic activity are outlined. It is expected that this Review can shed some light on the design of next generation electrocatalysts.
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- Yanhui Song
- Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, P. R. China
- Materials Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, 710021, P. R. China
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
- Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
- Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
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Yan X, Zhuang L, Zhu Z, Yao X. Defect engineering and characterization of active sites for efficient electrocatalysis. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:3327-3345. [PMID: 33564804 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr08976a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Electrocatalysis plays a decisive role in various energy-related applications. Engineering the active sites of electrocatalysts is an important aspect to promote their catalytic performance. In particular, defect engineering provides a feasible and efficient approach to improve the intrinsic activities and increase the number of active sites in electrocatalysts. In this review, recent investigations on defect engineering of a wide range of electrocatalysts such as metal-free carbon materials, transition metal oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) will be summarized. Different defect creation strategies will be outlined, for example, heteroatom doping and removal, plasma irradiation, hydrogenation, amorphization, phase transition and reduction treatment. In addition, we will overview the commonly used advanced characterization techniques that could confirm the existence and identify the detailed structures, types and concentration of defects in electrocatalysts. The defect characterization tools are beneficial for gaining an in-depth understanding of defects on electrocatalysis and thus could reveal the structure-performance relationship. Finally, the major challenges and future development directions on defect engineering of electrocatalysts will be discussed.
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- Xuecheng Yan
- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, QLD 4111, Australia.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, QLD 4111, Australia.
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Shit S, Ghosh S, Samanta P, Bolar S, Murmu NC, Kuila T. Optimization of specific capacitance and water splitting efficiency of N-enriched carbon by incorporating oxides of transition metals via an ancient chemical technique. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Zhang M, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Song J, Si Y, Yan J, Ma C, Liu Y, Yu J, Ding B. Conductive and Elastic TiO
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Nanofibrous Aerogels: A New Concept toward Self‐Supported Electrocatalysts with Superior Activity and Durability. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202010110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Meng Zhang
- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Heat Fluid Flow Technology and Energy Application School of Physical Science and Technology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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Wang C, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Ren G, Cai D. One-step conversion of tannic acid-modified ZIF-67 into oxygen defect hollow Co 3O 4/nitrogen-doped carbon for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. RSC Adv 2020; 10:38906-38911. [PMID: 35518438 PMCID: PMC9057370 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra07696a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Controllable structure and defect design are considered as efficient strategies to boost the electrochemical activity and stability of catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, oxygen defect hollow Co3O4/nitrogen-doped carbon (OV-HCo3O4@NC) composites were successfully synthesized using tannic acid-modified ZIF-67 (TAMZIF-67) as the precursor through a one-step pyrolysis. Tannic acid provides abundant oxygen during the pyrolysis process of the modified ZIF-67, which can contribute to the formation of oxygen defects and the construction of a hollow structure. The existence of oxygen defects is shown by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance, whereas the hollow structure is confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. The optimized OV-HCo3O4@NC shows good electrocatalytic activity and exhibits a low overpotential of 360 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 0.1 M KOH due to the hollow structure, abundant oxygen defects, and good electrical conductivity. This work provides valuable insights into the exploration of promising OER electrocatalysts with oxygen defects and special structures. Oxygen defect hollow Co3O4/nitrogen-doped carbon (OV-HCo3O4@NC) nanocomposites were successfully synthesized by simple one-step pyrolysis of tannic acid-modified ZIF-67 (TAMZIF-67). OV-HCo3O4@NC shows good OER electrocatalytic activity and stability.![]()
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- Changshui Wang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University Guilin 541004 P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University Guilin 541004 P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University Guilin 541004 P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University Guilin 541004 P. R. China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University Guilin 541004 P. R. China
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Nanofibrous Aerogels: A New Concept toward Self‐Supported Electrocatalysts with Superior Activity and Durability. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:23252-23260. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202010110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Meng Zhang
- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Heat Fluid Flow Technology and Energy Application School of Physical Science and Technology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology Suzhou 215009 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Fibers & Products (Ministry of Education) College of Textiles Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China
- Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University Shanghai 200051 China
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Pan Y, Cheng X, Gao M, Fu Y, Feng J, Gong L, Ahmed H, Zhang H, Battaglia VS. Cagelike CoSe 2@N-Doped Carbon Aerogels with Pseudocapacitive Properties as Advanced Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Excellent Rate Performance and Cyclic Stability. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:33621-33630. [PMID: 32603080 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Electrochemical conversion reaction based electrodes offer a high sodium storage capacity in rechargeable batteries by utilizing the variable valence states of transition metals. Thus, transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) as such materials have been intensively investigated in recent years to explore the possibilities of practical application in rechargeable sodium-ion batteries; however, it is hindered by poor rate performance and a high-cost preparation method. In addition, some issues in regards to conversion reactions remain poorly understood, including incomplete reversible reaction processes, polarization, and hysteresis. Herein, a novel cagelike CoSe2@N-doped carbon aerogels hybrid composite was designed and prepared by a facile and high-efficiency sol-gel technology. Benefiting from the surface engineering optimization, high charge transfer, and low-energy diffusion barrier, the CoSe2@N-doped carbon aerogels exhibit a high pseudocapacitive property. Most importantly, the CoSe2 anode has been carefully investigated at different discharge/charge states by X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy technologies and density functional theory (DFT) simulations, which deeply reveal the capacity fading mechanism and phase transition behavior.
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- Yuelei Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China
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- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China
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- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China
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- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Hao Y, Huang A, Han S, Huang H, Song J, Sun X, Wang Z, Li L, Hu F, Xue J, Peng S. Plasma-Treated Ultrathin Ternary FePSe 3 Nanosheets as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Efficient Zinc-Air Batteries. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:29393-29403. [PMID: 32490656 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c08133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Developing novel bifunctional electrocatalysts with advanced oxygen electrocatalytic activity is pivotal for next-generation energy-storage devices. Herein, we present ultrathin oxygen-doped FePSe3 (FePSe3-O) nanosheets by Ar/O2 plasma treatment, with remarkable surface atom reorganization. Such surface atom reorganization generates multiple crystalline-amorphous interfaces that benefit the kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction, achieving a low overpotential of only 261 mV at 10 mA cm-2 with a small Tafel slope of 41.13 mV dec-1. Density functional theory calculation indicates that oxygen doping can also modulate the electrical states at the Fermi level with a decreased band gap responsible for the enhanced electrocatalytic performance. Such unique FePSe3-O nanosheets can be further fabricated as the air cathode in rechargeable liquid zinc-air batteries (ZABs), which deliver a high open circuit potential of 1.47 V, a small charge-discharge voltage gap of 0.80 V, and good cycling stability for more than 800 circles. As a proof of concept, the flexible solid-state ZABs assembled with FePSe3-O nanosheets as cathode also display a favorable charge-discharge performance, durable stability, and good bendability. This work sheds new insights into the rational design of defect-rich ternary thiophosphate nanosheets by plasma treatment toward enhanced oxygen electrocatalysts in metal-air batteries.
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- Yanan Hao
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- School of Electronics Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- School of Electronics Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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Chen H, Shi L, Liang X, Wang L, Asefa T, Zou X. Optimization of Active Sites via Crystal Phase, Composition, and Morphology for Efficient Low‐Iridium Oxygen Evolution Catalysts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:19654-19658. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Hui Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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Chen H, Shi L, Liang X, Wang L, Asefa T, Zou X. Optimization of Active Sites via Crystal Phase, Composition, and Morphology for Efficient Low‐Iridium Oxygen Evolution Catalysts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202006756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Hui Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry College of Chemistry Jilin University Changchun 130012 China
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Chen Z, Chen M, Yan X, Jia H, Fei B, Ha Y, Qing H, Yang H, Liu M, Wu R. Vacancy Occupation-Driven Polymorphic Transformation in Cobalt Ditelluride for Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS NANO 2020; 14:6968-6979. [PMID: 32479055 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c01456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold great potential as an advanced electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), but to date the activity of transition metal telluride catalysts are demonstrated to be poor for this reaction. In this study, we report the activation of CoTe2 for OER by doping secondary anions into Te vacancies to trigger a structural transition from the hexagonal to the orthorhombic phase. The achieved orthorhombic CoTe2 with partial vacancies occupied by P-doping exhibits an exceptional OER catalytic activity with an overpotential of only 241 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and a robust stability more than 24 h. The combined experimental and theoretical studies suggest that the defective phase transformation is controllable and allows the synergism of vacancy, doping as well as the reconstructed crystallographic structure, ensuring more exposure of catalytic active sites, rapid charge transfer, and energetically favorable intermediates. This vacancy occupation-driven strategy of structural transformation can also be manipulated by S- and Se-doping, which may offer useful guidance for developing tellurides-based electrocatalyst for OER.
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- Ziliang Chen
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China
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Zong W, Rao D, Guo H, Ouyang Y, Miao YE, Wang W, Wang J, Lai F, Liu T. Gradient phosphorus-doping engineering and superficial amorphous reconstruction in NiFe 2O 4 nanoarrays to enhance the oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:10977-10986. [PMID: 32420574 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr01496f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A better solid-liquid-gas three-phase boundary is vital for low energy cost oxygen evolution reaction (OER), making the designed regulation of interfacial atmosphere necessary. Herein, we find that the OER electrocatalysis can be dramatically improved by synergistically forming disordered electronic structures and superficial amorphous layers, as superficial oxyhydroxide, phosphorus-doped NiFe2O4 nanoarrays on nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers (OP-NiFe2O4/NCNFs). Unveiled by the depth-profiling analysis from the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the contents of phosphorous doping in the OP-NiFe2O4 nanoarrays change dynamically from outside to inside due to its in situ superficial reconstruction into the oxyhydroxide layer, thereby accelerating electron transfer between heterogeneous phases. As revealed by density functional theory calculations, this amorphous oxyhydroxide layer and dynamically varied phosphorous content would positively shift the d-band center of the NiFe2O4-related compounds, leading to lower adsorption energy towards water molecule. Thus, the OP-NiFe2O4/NCNF electrocatalyst displays a low overpotential of 260 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and a small Tafel slope of 44.8 mV dec-1 in an alkaline medium.
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- Wei Zong
- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Energy Materials and Devices, School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, PR China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450001, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, Leuven 3001, Belgium.
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
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Li F, Wang C, Han X, Feng X, Qu Y, Liu J, Chen W, Zhao L, Song X, Zhu H, Chen H, Zhao M, Deng Z, Wu J, Zhang P, Gao L. Confinement Effect of Mesopores: In Situ Synthesis of Cationic Tungsten-Vacancies for a Highly Ordered Mesoporous Tungsten Phosphide Electrocatalyst. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:22741-22750. [PMID: 32356651 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Engineering defects in crystalline electrocatalysts is an effective approach to tailor the electronic structure and number of active sites, which are essential for the intrinsic activity of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Unlike previously reported methods, we demonstrate a confinement effect using a mesoporous template for in situ fabrication of cationic W vacancies in as-prepared ordered mesoporous tungsten phosphide (WP) nanostructures by adjusting the nonstoichiometric ratio of the precursor elements. With a plenty of W vacancies and ordered mesoporosity, the as-prepared catalyst WP-Mesop exhibits better catalytic performance than the catalysts without mesopores and/or vacancies. The WP-Mesop shows an ultralow overpotential of 175 mV in acid and 229 mV in alkaline at 100 mA cm-2 and stability of 48 h without structural collapse in both acid and alkaline media. Meanwhile, density functional theory calculations further reveal that the activation barrier for HER can be lowered by introducing cationic W vacancies. This strategy can be extended to generate cationic defects in other transition metal phosphides to improve their HER activities.
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- Feng Li
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, School of Naval Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations, College of Energy, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites and Center of Hydrogen Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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Zhang X, Gao J, Xiao Y, Wang J, Sun G, Zhao Y, Qu L. Regulation of 2D Graphene Materials for Electrocatalysis. Chem Asian J 2020; 15:2271-2281. [PMID: 32227581 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202000249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Revised: 03/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Benefiting from unique excellent physical and chemical characteristics, graphene has attracted widespread attention in the application of electrocatalysis. As a promising candidate, graphene is usually regulated with surface defects, heteroatoms, metal atoms and other active materials through covalent or non-covalent bonds to substitute for noble metal catalysts, which has not been targeted in a report yet. In this review, we summarize the recent advances of approaches for engineering graphene-based electrocatalysts and emphasize the corresponding electrocatalytic active sites in various electrocatalysis circumstances, such as electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), etc. The opportunities and challenges in the future development of graphene-based catalysts are also discussed.
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- Xinqun Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao City, Shandong, Province, 266042, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing Technology, Ministry of Education of China, State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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Wang X, Zhuang L, Jia Y, Zhang L, Yang Q, Xu W, Yang D, Yan X, Zhang L, Zhu Z, Brown CL, Yuan P, Yao X. One-step In-situ Synthesis of Vacancy-rich CoFe2O4@Defective Graphene Hybrids as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries. Chem Res Chin Univ 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-020-0056-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Amorphization activated ruthenium-tellurium nanorods for efficient water splitting. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5692. [PMID: 31831748 PMCID: PMC6908605 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13519-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Pursuing active and durable water splitting electrocatalysts is of vital significance for solving the sluggish kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) process in energy supply. Herein, theoretical calculations identify that the local distortion-strain effect in amorphous RuTe2 system abnormally sensitizes the Te-pπ coupling capability and enhances the electron-transfer of Ru-sites, in which the excellent inter-orbital p-d transfers determine strong electronic activities for boosting OER performance. Thus, a robust electrocatalyst based on amorphous RuTe2 porous nanorods (PNRs) is successfully fabricated. In the acidic water splitting, a-RuTe2 PNRs exhibit a superior performance, which only require a cell voltage of 1.52 V to reach a current density of 10 mA cm−2. Detailed investigations show that the high density of defects combine with oxygen atoms to form RuOxHy species, which are conducive to the OER. This work offers valuable insights for constructing robust electrocatalysts based on theoretical calculations guided by rational design and amorphous materials. Elctrochemical water splitting is of vital significance for energy conversion and storage. Here the authors show an electrocatalyst based on amorphous ruthenium-tellurium porous nanorods which exhibit significantly improved OER performance than its crystalline counterparts
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Tian Y, Wang S, Velasco E, Yang Y, Cao L, Zhang L, Li X, Lin Y, Zhang Q, Chen L. A Co-Doped Nanorod-like RuO 2 Electrocatalyst with Abundant Oxygen Vacancies for Acidic Water Oxidation. iScience 2019; 23:100756. [PMID: 31887659 PMCID: PMC6941840 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Revised: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Active and highly stable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acidic media are currently in high demand as a cleaner alternative to the combustion of fossil fuels. Herein, we report a Co-doped nanorod-like RuO2 electrocatalyst with an abundance of oxygen vacancies achieved through the facile, one-step annealing of a Ru-exchanged ZIF-67 derivative. The compound exhibits ultra-high OER performance in acidic media, with a low overpotential of 169 mV at 10 mA cm−2 while maintaining excellent activity, even when exposed to a 50-h galvanostatic stability test at a constant current of 10 mA cm−2. The dramatic enhancement in OER performance is mainly attributed to the abundance of oxygen vacancies and modulated electronic structure of the Co-doped RuO2 that rely on a vacancy-related lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism (LOM) rather than adsorbate evolution reaction mechanism (AEM), as revealed and supported by experimental characterizations as well as density functional theory (DFT) calculations. A Co-doped RuO2 electrocatalyst with an abundance of oxygen vacancies was synthesized The compound exhibits ultra-high OER performance in acidic media The oxygen vacancies contribute to the high OER performance
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- Yuanyuan Tian
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P.R. China; School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- State Grid Ningbo Electric Power Supply Company, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315000, P.R. China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P.R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P.R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, P.R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
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Jiang Z, Ge L, Zhuang L, Li M, Wang Z, Zhu Z. Fine-Tuning the Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Sites of Metal-Organic Frameworks by Plasma Engraving for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:44300-44307. [PMID: 31679334 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b15794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as promising electrocatalysts because of their atomically dispersed metal sites and porous structures. The active sites of MOF catalysts largely exist as coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (CUMSs). In this study, facile microwave-induced plasma engraving is applied to fine-tune the CUMSs of cobalt-based MOF (Co-MOF-74) without destroying its phase integrity by controlling the plasma-engraving species, intensity, and duration. The electrochemical activity of the engraved MOF is found to be quantitatively correlated to the coordination geometry of the metal centers corresponding to CUMSs. Specifically, the hydrogen plasma-engraved Co-MOF-74 shows an enhanced catalytic activity of oxygen evolution reaction, which exhibits a low overpotential (337 mV at 15 mA cm-2), high turnover frequency (0.0219 s-1), and large mass activity (54.3 A g-1). The developed CUMS control strategy and the revealed CUMSs activity correlation can inspire the further microstructure tuning of MOFs for various applications.
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- Zongrui Jiang
- School of Chemical Engineering , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- Centre for Future Materials , University of Southern Queensland , Springfield Central , Queensland 4300 , Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , Queensland 4072 , Australia
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Huang J, Li Y, Zhang Y, Rao G, Wu C, Hu Y, Wang X, Lu R, Li Y, Xiong J. Identification of Key Reversible Intermediates in Self‐Reconstructed Nickel‐Based Hybrid Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:17458-17464. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201910716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Jianwen Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen University Guangdong 518060 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- Department of Applied PhysicsNanjing University of Science and Technology Nanjing 210094 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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Huang J, Li Y, Zhang Y, Rao G, Wu C, Hu Y, Wang X, Lu R, Li Y, Xiong J. Identification of Key Reversible Intermediates in Self‐Reconstructed Nickel‐Based Hybrid Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201910716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Jianwen Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- College of Physics and Optoelectronic EngineeringShenzhen University Guangdong 518060 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- Department of Applied PhysicsNanjing University of Science and Technology Nanjing 210094 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated DevicesUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 China
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