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Ai Y, Zhang K, Li J, Du X, Wang Y, Wu L, Zhang Z. Customizing pyridinic nitrogen coordination in Ni-N-C for electrocatalytic CO 2reduction towards CO. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 35:395403. [PMID: 38959865 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad5e8b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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Nickel anchored N-doped carbon electrocatalysts (Ni-N-C) are rapidly developed for the electrochemical reduction reaction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR). However, the high-performanced Ni-N-C analogues design for CO2RR remains bewilderment, for the reason lacking of definite guidance for its structure-activity relationship. Herein, the correlation between the proportion of nitrogen species derived from various nitrogen sources and the CO2RR activity of Ni-N-C is investigated. The x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectrum combined with the CO2RR performance results show that pyridinic-N content has a positive correlation with CO2RR activity. Moreover, density functional theory (DFT) demonstrates that pyridinic-N coordinated Ni-N4sites offers optimized free energy and favorable selectivity towards CO2RR compared with pyrrolic-N. Accordingly, Ni-Na-C with highest pyridinic-N content (ammonia as nitrogen source) performs superior CO2RR activity, with the maximum carbon monoxide faradaic efficiency (FECO) of 99.8% at -0.88 V vs. RHE and the FECOsurpassing 95% within potential ranging of -0.88 to -1.38 V vs. RHE. The building of this parameter for CO2RR activity of Ni-N-C give instructive forecast for low-cost and highly active CO2RR electrocatalysts.
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- Ying Ai
- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient Energy Saving, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Chemical Process Safety, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, People's Republic of China
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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Ma C, Zhang H, Xia J, Zhu X, Qu K, Feng F, Han S, He C, Ma X, Lin G, Cao W, Meng X, Zhu L, Yu Y, Wang AL, Lu Q. Screening of Intermetallic Compounds Based on Intermediate Adsorption Equilibrium for Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. J Am Chem Soc 2024. [PMID: 38984787 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Electrocatalytic nitrate (NO3-) reduction reaction (NO3RR) holds great potential for the conversion of NO3- contaminants into valuable NH3 in a sustainable method. Unfortunately, the nonequilibrium adsorption of intermediates and sluggish multielectron transfer have detrimental impacts on the electrocatalytic performance of the NO3RR, posing obstacles to its practical application. Herein, we initially screen the adsorption energies of three key intermediates, i.e., *NO3, *NO, and *H2O, along with the d-band centers on 21 types of transition metal (IIIV and IB)-Sb/Bi-based intermetallic compounds (IMCs) as electrocatalysts. The results reveal that hexagonal CoSb IMCs possess the optimal adsorption equilibrium for key intermediates and exhibit outstanding electrocatalytic NO3RR performance with a Faradaic efficiency of 96.3%, a NH3 selectivity of 89.1%, and excellent stability, surpassing the majority of recently reported NO3RR electrocatalysts. Moreover, the integration of CoSb IMCs/C into a novel Zn-NO3- battery results in a high power density of 11.88 mW cm-2.
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- Chaoqun Ma
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
- Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Foshan 528399, China
- State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Power Safety Technology and Equipment, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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Guo M, Wang L, Huang Z, Li H, Isimjan TT, Yang X. Modulating the Energy Barrier via the Synergism of Cu 3P and CoP to Accelerate Kinetics for Bolstering Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Zn-Air Batteries. ACS NANO 2024; 18:17901-17912. [PMID: 38913650 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c04479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Modulating the energy barrier of reaction intermediates to surmount sluggish kinetics is an utterly intriguing strategy for amplifying the oxygen reduction reaction. Herein, a Cu3P/CoP hybrid is incorporated on hollow porous N-doped carbon nanospheres via dopamine self-polymerization and high-temperature treatment. The resultant Cu3P/CoP@NC showcases a favorable mass activity of 4.41 mA mg-1 and a kinetic current density of 2.38 mA cm-2. Strikingly, the catalyst endows the aqueous Zn-air battery (ZAB) with a large power density of 209.0 mW cm-2, superb cyclability over 317 h, and promising application prospects in flexible ZAB. Theoretical simulations reveal that Cu functions as a modulator to modify the free energy of intermediates and adsorbs the O2 on the Co sites, hence rushing the reaction kinetics. The open and hydrophilic hollow spherical mesoporous structure provides unimpeded channels for reactant diffusion and electrolyte penetration, whereas the exposed inner and outer surfaces can confer a plethora of accessible actives sites. This research establishes a feasible design concept to tune catalytic activity for non-noble metal materials by construction of a rational nanoframework.
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- Man Guo
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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- Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
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Shen J, Pan Z. A supported Ni 2 dual-atoms site hollow urchin-like carbon catalyst for synergistic CO 2 electroreduction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 673:486-495. [PMID: 38879990 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.06.105] [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: 03/18/2024] [Revised: 06/10/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Dual-atoms catalysts (DACs), while inheriting the advantages of maximum atom utilization ratio and excellent selectivity of single-atom catalysts (SACs), can better enhance the catalytic activity through the synergy of adjacent atoms. Therefore, DACs are considered to be very potential catalysts for CO2 to CO conversion. Its catalytic activity is greatly influenced by the coordination environment and morphology. Here, hollow urchin-like NiNC catalysts (Ni-NC(HU)-x, x = 100, 50, 25, 0) were synthesized using urchin-like nickel particles as template. By adjusting the amount of additional nitrogen source, the percentage content of pyridinic-N was adjusted as well as further affecting the coordination environment. Among them, Ni-NC(HU)-50, which had the highest content of pyridinic-N, formed a dual-atoms coordination structure and had the best catalytic performance that the CO Faradaic efficiency (FECO) reached 97.2 % at -0.9 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and sustained above 95 % within 50 h. In-situ attenuated total reflectance surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (ATR-SEIRAS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations showed that Ni-NC(HU)-50 exhibited the best performance of CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) by lowering the *COOH formation free energy barrier and its favorable dual desorption mechanism of *COL and *COB.
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- Jianhua Shen
- Shanghai Engineering Research Centre of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Centre of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Wu Q, Xi J, Li L, Li X, Yang M, Wang L. "Cave Effect" Induces Self-Assembled Bimetallic Hollow Structure for Three-in-One Lateral Flow Immunoassay. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:5993-6001. [PMID: 38655913 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Bimetallic hollow structures have attracted much attention due to their unique properties, but they still face the problems of nonuniform alloys and excessive etching leading to structural collapse. Here, uniform bimetallic hollow nanospheres are constructed by pore engineering and then highly loaded with hemin (Hemin@MOF). Interestingly, in the presence of polydopamine (PDA), the competitive coordination between anionic polymer (γ-PGA) and dimethylimidazole does not lead to the collapse of the external framework but self-assembly into a hollow structure. By constructing the Hemin@MOF immune platform and using E. coli O157:H7 as the detection object, we find that the visual detection limits can reach 10, 3, and 3 CFU/mL in colorimetric, photothermal, and catalytic modes, which is 4 orders of magnitude lower than the traditional gold standard. This study provides a new idea for the morphological modification of the metal-organic skeleton and multifunctional immunochromatography detection.
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- Qiushuang Wu
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
- GDMPA Key Laboratory for Process Control and Quality Evaluation of Chiral Pharmaceuticals, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biomedicine, School of Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, P. R. China
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Wang D, Lu XF, Luan D, Lou XWD. Selective Electrocatalytic Conversion of Nitric Oxide to High Value-Added Chemicals. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2312645. [PMID: 38271637 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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The artificial disturbance in the nitrogen cycle has necessitated an urgent need for nitric oxide (NO) removal. Electrochemical technologies for NO conversion have gained increasing attention in recent years. This comprehensive review presents the recent advancements in selective electrocatalytic conversion of NO to high value-added chemicals, with specific emphasis on catalyst design, electrolyte composition, mass diffusion, and adsorption energies of key intermediate species. Furthermore, the review explores the synergistic electrochemical co-electrolysis of NO with specific carbon source molecules, enabling the synthesis of a range of valuable chemicals with C─N bonds. It also provides in-depth insights into the intricate reaction pathways and underlying mechanisms, offering valuable perspectives on the challenges and prospects of selective NO electrolysis. By advancing comprehension and fostering awareness of nitrogen cycle balance, this review contributes to the development of efficient and sustainable electrocatalytic systems for the selective synthesis of valuable chemicals from NO.
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- Dongdong Wang
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, China
- Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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Li Y, Guo Y, Fan G, Luan D, Gu X, Lou XWD. Single Zn Atoms with Acetate-Anion-Enabled Asymmetric Coordination for Efficient H 2 O 2 Photosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202317572. [PMID: 38116911 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202317572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Exploring unique single-atom sites capable of efficiently reducing O2 to H2 O2 while being inert to H2 O2 decomposition under light conditions is significant for H2 O2 photosynthesis, but it remains challenging. Herein, we report the facile design and fabrication of polymeric carbon nitride (CN) decorated with single-Zn sites that have tailorable local coordination environments, which is enabled by utilizing different Zn salt anions. Specifically, the O atom from acetate (OAc) anion participates in the coordination of single-Zn sites on CN, forming asymmetric Zn-N3 O moiety on CN (denoted as CN/Zn-OAc), in contrast to the obtained Zn-N4 sites when sulfate (SO4 ) is adopted (CN/Zn-SO4 ). Both experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrate that the Zn-N3 O moiety exhibits higher intrinsic activity for O2 reduction to H2 O2 than the Zn-N4 moiety. This is attributed to the asymmetric N/O coordination, which promotes the adsorption of O2 and the formation of the key intermediate *OOH on Zn sites due to their modulated electronic structure. Moreover, it is inactive for H2 O2 decomposition under both dark and light conditions. As a result, the optimized CN/Zn-OAc catalyst exhibits significantly improved photocatalytic H2 O2 production activity under visible light irradiation.
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- Yunxiang Li
- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, 999077, Hong Kong, China
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Li K, Kuwahara Y, Yamashita H. Hollow carbon-based materials for electrocatalytic and thermocatalytic CO 2 conversion. Chem Sci 2024; 15:854-878. [PMID: 38239694 PMCID: PMC10793651 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc05026b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2024] Open
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Electrocatalytic and thermocatalytic CO2 conversions provide promising routes to realize global carbon neutrality, and the development of corresponding advanced catalysts is important but challenging. Hollow-structured carbon (HSC) materials with striking features, including unique cavity structure, good permeability, large surface area, and readily functionalizable surface, are flexible platforms for designing high-performance catalysts. In this review, the topics range from the accurate design of HSC materials to specific electrocatalytic and thermocatalytic CO2 conversion applications, aiming to address the drawbacks of conventional catalysts, such as sluggish reaction kinetics, inadequate selectivity, and poor stability. Firstly, the synthetic methods of HSC, including the hard template route, soft template approach, and self-template strategy are summarized, with an evaluation of their characteristics and applicability. Subsequently, the functionalization strategies (nonmetal doping, metal single-atom anchoring, and metal nanoparticle modification) for HSC are comprehensively discussed. Lastly, the recent achievements of intriguing HSC-based materials in electrocatalytic and thermocatalytic CO2 conversion applications are presented, with a particular focus on revealing the relationship between catalyst structure and activity. We anticipate that the review can provide some ideas for designing highly active and durable catalytic systems for CO2 valorization and beyond.
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- Kaining Li
- Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University 2-1 Yamada-oka Osaka 565-0871 Japan
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- Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University 2-1 Yamada-oka Osaka 565-0871 Japan
- Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita Osaka 565-0871 Japan
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- Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University 2-1 Yamada-oka Osaka 565-0871 Japan
- Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita Osaka 565-0871 Japan
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Zhang T, Luo D, Xiao H, Liang X, Zhang F, Zhuang H, Xu M, Dai W, Qi S, Zheng L, Gao Q. Nonmetallic-Bonding Fe-Mn Diatomic Pairs Anchored on Hollow Carbonaceous Nanodisks for High-Performance Li-S Battery. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2306806. [PMID: 37688339 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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The issues of polysulfide shuttling and lethargic sulfur redox reaction (SROR) kinetics are the toughest obstacles of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery. Herein, integrating the merits of increased density of metal sites and synergistic catalytic effect, a unique single-atom catalyst (SAC) with nonmetallic-bonding Fe-Mn diatomic pairs anchored on hollow nitrogen-doped carbonaceous nanodisk (denoted as FeMnDA@NC) is successfully constructed and well characterized by aberration-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, etc. Density functional theory calculation indicates that the Fe-Mn diatomic pairs can effectively inhibit the shuttle effect by enhancing the adsorption ability retarding the polysulfide migration and accelerate the SROR kinetics. As a result, the Li-S battery assembled with FeMnDA@NC modified separator possesses an excellent electrochemical performance with ultrahigh specific capacities of 1419 mAh g-1 at 0.1 C and 885 mAh g-1 at 3.0 C, respectively. An outstanding specific capacity of 1165 mAh g-1 is achieved at 1.0 C and maintains at 731 mAh g-1 after 700 cycles. Notably, the assembled Li-S battery with a high sulfur loading of 5.35 mg cm-2 harvests a practical areal capacity of 5.70 mAh cm-2 at 0.2 C. A new perspective is offered here to construct advanced SACs suitable for the Li-S battery.
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- Tengfei Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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Wang Z, Zhou Y, Qiu P, Xia C, Fang W, Jin J, Huang L, Deng P, Su Y, Crespo-Otero R, Tian X, You B, Guo W, Di Tommaso D, Pang Y, Ding S, Xia BY. Advanced Catalyst Design and Reactor Configuration Upgrade in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Conversion. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2303052. [PMID: 37589167 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202303052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
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Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2 RR) driven by renewable energy shows great promise in mitigating and potentially reversing the devastating effects of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation. The simultaneous synthesis of energy-dense chemicals can meet global energy demand while decoupling emissions from economic growth. However, the development of CO2 RR technology faces challenges in catalyst discovery and device optimization that hinder their industrial implementation. In this contribution, a comprehensive overview of the current state of CO2 RR research is provided, starting with the background and motivation for this technology, followed by the fundamentals and evaluated metrics. Then the underlying design principles of electrocatalysts are discussed, emphasizing their structure-performance correlations and advanced electrochemical assembly cells that can increase CO2 RR selectivity and throughput. Finally, the review looks to the future and identifies opportunities for innovation in mechanism discovery, material screening strategies, and device assemblies to move toward a carbon-neutral society.
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- Zhitong Wang
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
- School of Marine Science and Engineering, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- School of Marine Science and Engineering, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China
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- School of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning West Rd, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- School of Marine Science and Engineering, Hainan Provincial Key Lab of Fine Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- School of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 28 Xianning West Rd, Xi'an, 710049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), 1037 Luoyu Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China
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Lai W, Qiao Y, Wang Y, Huang H. Stability Issues in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction: Recent Advances in Fundamental Understanding and Design Strategies. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2306288. [PMID: 37562821 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202306288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2 RR) offers a promising approach to close the anthropogenic carbon cycle and store intermittent renewable energy in fuels or chemicals. On the path to commercializing this technology, achieving the long-term operation stability is a central requirement but still confronts challenges. This motivates to organize the present review to systematically discuss the stability issue of CO2 RR. This review starts from the fundamental understanding on the destabilization mechanisms of CO2 RR, with focus on the degradation of electrocatalyst and change of reaction microenvironment during continuous electrolysis. Subsequently, recent efforts on catalyst design to stabilize the active sites are summarized, where increasing atomic binding strength to resist surface reconstruction is highlighted. Next, the optimization of electrolysis system to enhance the operation stability by maintaining reaction microenvironment especially mitigating flooding and carbonate problems is demonstrated. The manipulation on operation conditions also enables to prolong CO2 RR lifespan through recovering catalytically active sites and mass transport process. This review finally ends up by indicating the challenges and future opportunities.
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- Wenchuan Lai
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210023, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, P. R. China
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Zhang L, Feng J, Wu L, Ma X, Song X, Jia S, Tan X, Jin X, Zhu Q, Kang X, Ma J, Qian Q, Zheng L, Sun X, Han B. Oxophilicity-Controlled CO 2 Electroreduction to C 2+ Alcohols over Lewis Acid Metal-Doped Cu δ+ Catalysts. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:21945-21954. [PMID: 37751566 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Cu-based electrocatalysts have great potential for facilitating CO2 reduction to produce energy-intensive fuels and chemicals. However, it remains challenging to obtain high product selectivity due to the inevitable strong competition among various pathways. Here, we propose a strategy to regulate the adsorption of oxygen-associated active species on Cu by introducing an oxophilic metal, which can effectively improve the selectivity of C2+ alcohols. Theoretical calculations manifested that doping of Lewis acid metal Al into Cu can affect the C-O bond and Cu-C bond breaking toward the selectively determining intermediate (shared by ethanol and ethylene), thus prioritizing the ethanol pathway. Experimentally, the Al-doped Cu catalyst exhibited an outstanding C2+ Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 84.5% with remarkable stability. In particular, the C2+ alcohol FE could reach 55.2% with a partial current density of 354.2 mA cm-2 and a formation rate of 1066.8 μmol cm-2 h-1. A detailed experimental study revealed that Al doping improved the adsorption strength of active oxygen species on the Cu surface and stabilized the key intermediate *OC2H5, leading to high selectivity toward ethanol. Further investigation showed that this strategy could also be extended to other Lewis acid metals.
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- Libing Zhang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Center for Carbon Neutral Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Zou Y, Liu C, Zhang C, Yuan L, Li J, Bao T, Wei G, Zou J, Yu C. Epitaxial growth of metal-organic framework nanosheets into single-crystalline orthogonal arrays. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5780. [PMID: 37723168 PMCID: PMC10507060 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41517-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
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Construction of two-dimensional nanosheets into three-dimensional regular structures facilitates the mass transfer and exploits the maximum potential of two-dimensional building blocks in applications such as catalysis. Here, we report the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with an orthogonal nanosheet array. The assembly involves the epitaxial growth of single crystalline metal-organic framework nanosheets with a naturally non-preferred facet exposure as the shell on a cubic metal-organic framework as the core. The nanosheets, despite of two typical shapes and crystallographic orientations, also form a single crystalline orthogonally arrayed framework. The density and size of nanosheets in the core-shell-structured composite metal-organic frameworks can be well adjusted. Moreover, metal-organic frameworks with a single composition and hollow orthogonal nanosheet array morphology can be obtained. Benefiting from the unusual facet exposure and macroporous structure, the designed structure exhibits improved electrocatalytic oxygen evolution activity compared to conventional nanosheets.
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- Yingying Zou
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China.
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, PR China.
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- Materials Engineering and Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China.
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Liu Y, Jiang Z, Huang C, Jeong S, Coughlin AL, Zhang S, Liu Y, Ye X. Ligand-Controlled Electroreduction of CO 2 to Formate over Facet-Defined Bimetallic Sulfide Nanoplates. NANO LETTERS 2023. [PMID: 37339508 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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CO2 reduction (CO2R) catalyzed by an efficient, stable, and earth-abundant electrocatalyst offers an attractive means to store energy derived from renewable sources. Here, we describe the synthesis of facet-defined Cu2SnS3 nanoplates and the ligand-controlled CO2R property. We show that thiocyanate-capped Cu2SnS3 nanoplates possess excellent selectivity toward formate over a wide range of potentials and current densities, attaining a maximum formate Faradaic efficiency of 92% and partial current densities as high as 181 mA cm-2 when tested using a flow cell with gas-diffusion electrode. In situ spectroscopic measurements and theoretical calculations reveal that the high formate selectivity originates from favorable adsorption of HCOO* intermediates on cationic Sn sites that are electronically modulated by thiocyanates bound to adjacent Cu sites. Our work illustrates that well-defined multimetallic sulfide nanocrystals with tailored surface chemistries could provide a new avenue for future CO2R electrocatalyst design.
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- Yang Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Texas Materials Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
- Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Ion and Electron Beams (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Texas Materials Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Xin Y, Shen K, Guo T, Chen L, Li Y. Coupling Hydrazine Oxidation with Seawater Electrolysis for Energy-Saving Hydrogen Production over Bifunctional CoNC Nanoarray Electrocatalysts. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2300019. [PMID: 36840653 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2023] [Revised: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Seawater electrolysis is a promising method to produce H2 without relying on scarce freshwater resource, but its high energy consumption and inevitable accompany of competitive chlorine oxidation reaction (ClOR) are still great technological challenges. Herein, a metal-organic framework (MOF)-templated pyrolysis strategy to prepare uniform cobalt/nitrogen-codoped carbon nanosheet arrays on carbon cloth (CC@CoNC) as highly-efficient but low-cost bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrazine-assisted seawater electrolysis is explored. The optimized CoNC nanosheet arrays can be used as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst to catalyze hydrazine oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction, remarkably reducing the energy consumption and nicely overcome the undesired anodic corrosion problems caused by ClOR. Impressively, a hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis system is successfully assembled by using the optimized CC@CoNC as both cathode and anode, which only needs an ultra-low cell voltage of 0.557 V and an electricity consumption of 1.22 kW h per cubic meter of H2 to achieve 200 mA cm-2 . Furthermore, the optimized CC@CoNC can also show greatly improved stability in the hydrazine-assisted seawater electrolysis system for H2 production, which can work steadily for above 40 h at ≈10 mA cm-2 . This study may offer great opportunities for obtaining hydrogen energy from infinite ocean resource by an eco-friendly method.
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- Yu Xin
- Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China
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Ma FX, Liu ZQ, Zhang G, Fan HS, Du Y, Zhen L, Xu CY. Self-Sacrificing Template Synthesis of Carbon Nanosheets Assembled Hollow Spheres with Abundant Active Fe-N 4 O 1 Moieties for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2207991. [PMID: 36843282 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202207991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Single-atom Fe-N-C (Fe1 -N-C) materials represent the benchmarked electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, single Fe atoms in the carbon skeletons cannot be fully utilized due to the mass transfer limitation, severely restricting their intrinsic ORR properties. Herein, a self-sacrificing template strategy is developed to fabricate ultrathin nanosheets assembled Fe1 -N-C hollow microspheres (denoted as Fe1 /N-HCMs) by rational carbonization of Fe3+ chelating polydopamine coated melamine cyanuric acid complex. The shell of Fe1 /N-HCMs is constructed by ultrathin nanosheets with thickness of only 2 nm, which is supposed to be an ideal platform to isolate and fully expose single metal atoms. Benefiting from unique hierarchical hollow architecture with highly open porous structure, 2 nm-thick ultrathin nanosheet subunits and abundant Fe-N4 O1 active sites revealed by X-ray absorption fine structure analysis, the Fe1 /N-HCMs exhibit high ORR performance with a positive half-wave potential of 0.88 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode and robust stability. When served as air-cathode catalysts with ultralow loading mass of 0.25 mg cm-2 , Fe1 /N-HCMs based Zn-air batteries present a maximum power density of 187 mW cm-2 and discharge specific capacity of 806 mA h gZn -1 in primary Zn-air batteries, all exceeding those of commercial Pt/C.
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- Fei-Xiang Ma
- Sauvage Laboratory for Smart Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Sauvage Laboratory for Smart Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Institute of Materials Research, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Sauvage Laboratory for Smart Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Sauvage Laboratory for Smart Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, 518055, China
- MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, China
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- Sauvage Laboratory for Smart Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, 518055, China
- MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, China
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Wang H, Li Y, Wang M, Chen S, Yao M, Chen J, Liao X, Zhang Y, Lu X, Matios E, Luo J, Zhang W, Feng Z, Dong J, Liu Y, Li W. Precursor-mediated in situ growth of hierarchical N-doped graphene nanofibers confining nickel single atoms for CO 2 electroreduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2219043120. [PMID: 36996112 PMCID: PMC10083610 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219043120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Despite the various strategies for achieving metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) single-atom catalysts (SACs) with different microenvironments for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), the synthesis-structure-performance correlation remains elusive due to the lack of well-controlled synthetic approaches. Here, we employed Ni nanoparticles as starting materials for the direct synthesis of nickel (Ni) SACs in one spot through harvesting the interaction between metallic Ni and N atoms in the precursor during the chemical vapor deposition growth of hierarchical N-doped graphene fibers. By combining with first-principle calculations, we found that the Ni-N configuration is closely correlated to the N contents in the precursor, in which the acetonitrile with a high N/C ratio favors the formation of Ni-N3, while the pyridine with a low N/C ratio is more likely to promote the evolution of Ni-N2. Moreover, we revealed that the presence of N favors the formation of H-terminated edge of sp2 carbon and consequently leads to the formation of graphene fibers consisting of vertically stacked graphene flakes, instead of the traditional growth of carbon nanotubes on Ni nanoparticles. With a high capability in balancing the *COOH formation and *CO desorption, the as-prepared hierarchical N-doped graphene nanofibers with Ni-N3 sites exhibit a superior CO2RR performance compared to that with Ni-N2 and Ni-N4 ones.
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- Huan Wang
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR97331
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH03755
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin300071, China
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR97331
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH03755
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Zhao X, He D, Xia BY, Sun Y, You B. Ambient Electrosynthesis toward Single-Atom Sites for Electrocatalytic Green Hydrogen Cycling. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2210703. [PMID: 36799551 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202210703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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With the ultimate atomic utilization, well-defined configuration of active sites and unique electronic properties, catalysts with single-atom sites (SASs) exhibit appealing performance for electrocatalytic green hydrogen generation from water splitting and further utilization via hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells, such that a vast majority of synthetic strategies toward SAS-based catalysts (SASCs) are exploited. In particular, room-temperature electrosynthesis under atmospheric pressure offers a novel, safe, and effective route to access SASs. Herein, the recent progress in ambient electrosynthesis toward SASs for electrocatalytic sustainable hydrogen generation and utilization, and future opportunities are discussed. A systematic summary is started on three kinds of ambient electrochemically synthetic routes for SASs, including electrochemical etching (ECE), direct electrodeposition (DED), and electrochemical leaching-redeposition (ELR), associated with advanced characterization techniques. Next, their electrocatalytic applications for hydrogen energy conversion including hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, overall water splitting, and oxygen reduction reaction are reviewed. Finally, a brief conclusion and remarks on future challenges regarding further development of ambient electrosynthesis of high-performance and cost-effective SASCs for many other electrocatalytic applications are presented.
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- Xin Zhao
- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China
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Liu M, Zhao B, Pei K, Qian Y, Yang C, Liu Y, Cao H, Zhang J, Che R. An Ion-Engineering Strategy to Design Hollow FeCo/CoFe 2 O 4 Microspheres for High-Performance Microwave Absorption. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2300363. [PMID: 36929568 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Although assembled hollow architectures have received considerable attention as lightweight functional materials, their uncontrollable self-aggregation and tedious synthetic methods hinder precise construction and modulation. Therefore, this study proposes a bi-ion synergistic regulation strategy to design assembled hollow-shaped cobalt spinel oxide microspheres. Dominated by the coordination-etching effects of F- and the hydrolysis-complex contributions of NH4 + , the unique construction is formed attributed to the dynamic cycles between metal complexes and precipitates. Meanwhile, their basic structures are perfectly retained after reduction treatment, enabling FeCo/CoFe2 O4 bimagnetic system to be obtained. Subsequently, in-depth analyses are conducted. Investigations reveal that multiscale magnetic coupling networks and enriched air-material heterointerfaces contribute to the remarkable magnetic-dielectric behavior, supported by the advanced off-axis electron holography technique. Consequently, the obtained FeCo/CoFe2 O4 composites exhibit excellent microwave absorption performances with minimal reflection losses (RLmin ) as high as -51.6 dB, an effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) of 4.7 GHz, and a matched thickness of 1.4 mm. Thus, this work provides an informative guide for rationally assembling building blocks into hollow architectures as advanced microwave absorbers through bi-ion and even multi-ion synergistic engineering mechanisms.
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- Min Liu
- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China
- Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, 311100, P. R. China
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Chen X, Liu W, Sun Y, Tan T, Du CX, Li Y. KOH-Enabled Axial-Oxygen Coordinated Ni Single-Atom Catalyst for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction. SMALL METHODS 2023; 7:e2201311. [PMID: 36605006 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202201311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Precise control of the coordination structure of metal centers is an ideal approach to achieve reasonable selectivity, activity, and stability in the electrochemical reduction of CO2 . In this work, the KOH activation strategy for preparation of hierarchically porous material containing Ni single-atoms with axial-oxygen coordination is reported. Spectroscopic measurements reveal the multiple roles of KOH as oxygen source, pore-making reagent and promoter for the formation of key phthalocyanine structure. It exhibits superior surface area (1801 m2 g-1 ) and electrocatalytic performance (Faradaic efficiency of 94%, Turnover frequency of 11 362 h-1 ). Notably, KOH-enabled architecture with abundant pores benefits the anchoring of Ni atoms and mass transfer for high activity and selectivity. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the axial-oxygen ligand can promote the electronic delocalization of the Ni site for facilitating the *COOH formation and *CO desorption to efficiently produce CO.
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- Xuanyi Chen
- Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, 450001, Zhengzhou, China
- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Green Catalysis Center, and College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, 450001, Zhengzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China
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Zhang H, Li Y, Cheng C, Zhou J, Yin P, Wu H, Liang Z, Zhang J, Yun Q, Wang AL, Zhu L, Zhang B, Cao W, Meng X, Xia J, Yu Y, Lu Q. Isolated Electron-Rich Ruthenium Atoms in Intermetallic Compounds for Boosting Electrochemical Nitric Oxide Reduction to Ammonia. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202213351. [PMID: 36357325 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202213351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The direct electrochemical nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) is an attractive technique for converting NO into NH3 with low power consumption under ambient conditions. Optimizing the electronic structure of the active sites can greatly improve the performance of electrocatalysts. Herein, we prepare body-centered cubic RuGa intermetallic compounds (i.e., bcc RuGa IMCs) via a substrate-anchored thermal annealing method. The electrocatalyst exhibits a remarkable NH4 + yield rate of 320.6 μmol h-1 mg-1 Ru with the corresponding Faradaic efficiency of 72.3 % at very low potential of -0.2 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) in neutral media. Theoretical calculations reveal that the electron-rich Ru atoms in bcc RuGa IMCs facilitate the adsorption and activation of *HNO intermediate. Hence, the energy barrier of the potential-determining step in NORR could be greatly reduced.
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- Huaifang Zhang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.,Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Foshan, Beijing, 528399, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Institute of New Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- Institute of New Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.,Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Foshan, Beijing, 528399, China
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- Institute of Optoelectronics Technology, Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Ministry of Education, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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- College of Energy Material and Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, 100192, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.,Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Foshan, Beijing, 528399, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Institute of Molecular Plus, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.,Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Foshan, Beijing, 528399, China
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Yu Z, Ji N, Li X, Zhang R, Qiao Y, Xiong J, Liu J, Lu X. Kinetics Driven by Hollow Nanoreactors: An Opportunity for Controllable Catalysis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202213612. [PMID: 36346146 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202213612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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As a novel class of catalytic materials, hollow nanoreactors offer new opportunities for improving catalytic performance owing to their higher controllability on molecular kinetic behavior. Nevertheless, to achieve controllable catalysis with specific purposes, the catalytic mechanism occurring inside hollow nanoreactors remains to be further understood. In this context, this Review presents a focused discussion about the basic concept of hollow nanoreactors, the underlying theory for hollow nanoreactor-driven kinetics, and the intrinsic correlation between key structural parameters of hollow nanoreactors and molecular kinetic behaviors. We aim to provide in-depth insights into understanding kinetics occurred within typical hollow nanoreactors. The perspectives proposed in this paper may contribute to the development of the fundamental theoretical framework of hollow nanoreactor-driven catalysis.
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- Zhihao Yu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, P.R. China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, P.R. China
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- School of Agriculture, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, 510275, P.R. China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin, 300384, P.R. China
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- School of Environment and Safety Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, P.R. China
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- School of Science, Tibet University, Lhasa, 850000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, P.R. China.,DICP-Surrey Joint Centre for Future Materials, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
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- School of Science, Tibet University, Lhasa, 850000, P.R. China
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Ning H, Wang Y, Fei X, Wang X, Jin X, Zou Y, Ma C, Jiao Z, Zhao Y, Wu M. Bionic Construction of Helical Bi 2 O 3 Microfibers for Highly Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction. CHEMSUSCHEM 2023; 16:e202201810. [PMID: 36330750 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202201810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Helical Bi2 O3 microfibers (HBM) were prepared with the assistance of cotton template through a simple heating treatment in air. This twisted structure induced the lattice strains, enriched the oxygen vacancies of Bi2 O3 , and promoted the sufficient exposure of active sites simultaneously, thus performing outstanding activity and selectivity as catalyst for CO2 electroreduction to formate. The faradaic efficiency (FE) of formate reached 100.4±1.9 % at -0.90 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) in an H-cell, and the partial current density was boosted to 226 mA cm-2 with FEformate of 96 % at -1.08 V vs. RHE in a flow cell. This work may open a new era for construction of metal oxide fibers by bionic strategy as high-performance electrocatalysts.
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- Hui Ning
- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- Shandong Dongyue future hydrogen energy material Co., Ltd Tangshan town, Huantai County, Zibo City, 256412, China
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- Tianjin Municipal Key Lab of Advanced Fiber and Energy Storage Technology, Tiangong University, NO. 399, Binshui West Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, 300389, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum, No. 66, West Changjiang Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao, 266580, China
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Zhang D, Xue Y, Zheng X, Zhang C, Li Y. Multi-heterointerfaces for selective and efficient urea production. Natl Sci Rev 2022; 10:nwac209. [PMID: 36817842 PMCID: PMC9935990 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A major impediment to industrial urea synthesis is the lack of catalysts with high selectivity and activity, which inhibits the efficient industrial production of urea. Here, we report a new catalyst system suitable for the highly selective synthesis of industrial urea by in situ growth of graphdiyne on the surface of cobalt-nickel mixed oxides. Such a catalyst is a multi-heterojunction interfacial structure resulting in the obvious incomplete charge-transfer phenomenon between a graphdiyne and metal oxide interface and multiple intermolecular interactions. These intrinsic characteristics are the origin of the high performance of the catalyst. Studies on the mechanism reveal that the catalyst could effectively optimize the adsorption/desorption capacities of the intermediate and promote direct C-N coupling by significantly suppressing by-product reactions toward the formation of H2, CO, N2 and NH3. The catalyst can selectively synthesize urea directly from nitrite and carbon dioxide in water at room temperature and pressure, and exhibits a record-high Faradaic efficiency of 64.3%, nitrogen selectivity (Nurea-selectivity) of 86.0%, carbon selectivity (Curea-selectivity) of ∼100%, as well as urea yield rates of 913.2 μg h-1 mgcat -1 and remarkable long-term stability.
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- Danyan Zhang
- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Shi T, Liu D, Liu N, Zhang Y, Feng H, Li Q. Triple-Phase Interface Engineered Hierarchical Porous Electrode for CO 2 Electroreduction to Formate. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2204472. [PMID: 36047612 PMCID: PMC9596843 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202204472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The aqueous electrochemical CO2 reduction to valuable products is seen as one of the most promising candidates to achieve carbon neutrality yet still suffers from poor selectivity and lower current density. Highly efficient CO2 reduction significantly relies on well-constructed electrode to realize efficient and stable triple-phase contact of CO2 , electrolyte, and active sites. Herein, a triple-phase interface engineering approach featuring the combination of hierarchical porous morphology design and surface modification is presented. A hierarchical porous electrode is constructed by depositing bismuth nanosheet array on copper foam followed by trimethoxy (1H,1H,2H,2H-heptadecafluorodecyl) silane modification on the nanosheet surface. This electrode not only achieves highly selective and efficient CO2 reduction performance with formate selectivity above 90% over wide potentials and a partial current density over -90 mA cm-2 in H-cell but also maintains a superior stability during the long-term operation. It is demonstrated that this remarkable performance is attributed to the construction of efficient and stable triple-phase interface. Theoretical calculations also show that the modified surface optimizes the activation path by lowering thermodynamic barriers of the key intermediates *OCHO for the formation of formate during electrochemical CO2 reduction.
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- Tong Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power EngineeringSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an710049China
- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power EngineeringSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an710049China
- MIIT Key Laboratory of Thermal Control of Electronic EquipmentSchool of Energy and Power EngineeringNanjing University of Science and TechnologyNanjing210094China
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Mei B, Liu C, Sun F, Lu S, Du X, Li X, Song F, Xu W, Jiang Z. Unraveling the Potential-Dependent Volcanic Selectivity Changes of an Atomically Dispersed Ni Catalyst During CO 2 Reduction. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c01885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Bingbao Mei
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, & Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Chemical Power, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China
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- College of Chemistry, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, & Jilin Province Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Chemical Power, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, People’s Republic of China
- Innovation Academy for Green Manufacture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China
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