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Onajah S, Sarkar R, Islam MS, Lalley M, Khan K, Demir M, Abdelhamid HN, Farghaly AA. Silica-Derived Nanostructured Electrode Materials for ORR, OER, HER, CO 2RR Electrocatalysis, and Energy Storage Applications: A Review. CHEM REC 2024; 24:e202300234. [PMID: 38530060 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202300234] [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: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Silica-derived nanostructured catalysts (SDNCs) are a class of materials synthesized using nanocasting and templating techniques, which involve the sacrificial removal of a silica template to generate highly porous nanostructured materials. The surface of these nanostructures is functionalized with a variety of electrocatalytically active metal and non-metal atoms. SDNCs have attracted considerable attention due to their unique physicochemical properties, tunable electronic configuration, and microstructure. These properties make them highly efficient catalysts and promising electrode materials for next generation electrocatalysis, energy conversion, and energy storage technologies. The continued development of SDNCs is likely to lead to new and improved electrocatalysts and electrode materials. This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in the development of SDNCs for electrocatalysis and energy storage applications. It analyzes 337,061 research articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) database up to December 2022 using the keywords "silica", "electrocatalysts", "ORR", "OER", "HER", "HOR", "CO2RR", "batteries", and "supercapacitors". The review discusses the application of SDNCs for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR), supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries, and thermal energy storage applications. It concludes by discussing the advantages and limitations of SDNCs for energy applications.
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- Sammy Onajah
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, 60439, United States
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 23284-2006, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey
- TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Material Institute, Gebze, 41470, Turkey
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- Advanced Multifunctional Materials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Assiut University, Assiut, 71516, Egypt
- Egyptian Russian University, Badr City, Cairo, 11829, Egypt
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, 60439, United States
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, 71516, Egypt
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Cui P, Zhao L, Long Y, Dai L, Hu C. Carbon-Based Electrocatalysts for Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202218269. [PMID: 36645824 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202218269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Revised: 01/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is vital for clean and renewable energy technologies, which require no fossil fuel but catalysts. Platinum (Pt) is the best-known catalyst for ORR. However, its high cost and scarcity have severely hindered renewable energy devices (e.g., fuel cells) for large-scale applications. Recent breakthroughs in carbon-based metal-free electrochemical catalysts (C-MFECs) show great potential for earth-abundant carbon materials as low-cost metal-free electrocatalysts towards ORR in acidic media. This article provides a focused, but critical review on C-MFECs for ORR in acidic media with an emphasis on advances in the structure design and synthesis, fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationship and electrocatalytic mechanisms, and their applications in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Current challenges and future perspectives in this emerging field are also discussed.
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- Pengbo Cui
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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Facile synthesis of mesoporous carbon materials with a three-dimensional ordered mesostructure and rich FeNX/C-S-C sites for efficient electrocatalytic oxygen reduction. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.130103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yuan S, Meng G, Liu D, Zhao W, Zhu H, Chi Y, Ren H, Guo W. Synergy of Substrate Chemical Environments and Single-Atom Catalysts Promotes Catalytic Performance: Nitrogen Reduction on Chiral and Defected Carbon Nanotubes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:52544-52552. [PMID: 36367754 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c17280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The catalytic activities of single-atom catalysts (SACs) are strongly influenced by the local chemical environments of their substrates, by which the electronic structures of the SACs can be effectively tuned. Together with the freedom of available reactive metallic centers, it would be feasible to maximize the catalytic performance by means of a synergetic optimization in the chemical space spanned by the features of both the substrate and the catalytic center. In this work, using first-principles calculations, we systematically assessed the synergetic effect between the substrate geometric/electronic structures and the catalytic centers on the electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). Carbon nanotubes with different chirality, defects, and chemical functionalization were used to support 15 transition metal atoms. Three SACs, TiN4CNT(3,3), TiN4CNT(5,5), and VN4CNT(3,3), simultaneously possess high NRR selectivities (w.r.t hydrogen evolution) and low overpotentials of 0.35, 0.35, and 0.37 V, respectively. Electronic structure analysis elucidated that larger metal atoms anchored on CNTs with higher curvature and doped by N atoms facilitate the rupture of the N-N bond in *NH2NH2 to lower the overpotentials. The synergy of substrate chemical environments and single atomic catalysis is a promising strategy to optimize the catalytic performance.
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- Saifei Yuan
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong, China
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Kashyap V, Pandikassala A, Singla G, Khan TS, Ali Haider M, Vinod CP, Kurungot S. Unravelling faradaic electrochemical efficiencies over Fe/Co spinel metal oxides using surface spectroscopy and microscopy techniques. NANOSCALE 2022; 14:15928-15941. [PMID: 36268905 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr04170g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Cobalt and iron metal-based oxide catalysts play a significant role in energy devices. To unravel some interesting parameters, we have synthesized metal oxides of cobalt and iron (i.e. Fe2O3, Co3O4, Co2FeO4 and CoFe2O4), and measured the effect of the valence band structure, morphology, size and defects in the nanoparticles towards the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The compositional variations in the cobalt and iron precursors significantly alter the particle size from 60 to <10 nm and simultaneously the shape of the particles (cubic and spherical). The Tauc plot obtained from the solution phase ultraviolet (UV) spectra of the nanoparticles showed band gaps of 2.2, 2.3, 2.5 and 2.8 eV for Fe2O3, Co3O4, Co2FeO4 and CoFe2O4, respectively. Further, the valence band structure and work function analysis using ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) and core level X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses provided better structural insight into metal oxide catalysts. In the Co3O4 system, the valence band structure favors the HER and Fe2O3 favors the OER. The composites Co2FeO4 and CoFe2O4 show a significant change in their core level (O 1s, Co 2p and Fe 2p spectra) and valence band structure. Co3O4 shows an overpotential of 370 mV against 416 mV for Fe2O3 at a current density of 2 mA cm-2 for the HER. Similarly, Fe2O3 shows an overpotential of 410 mV against the 435 mV for Co3O4 at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 for the OER. However, for the ORR, Co3O4 shows 70 mV improvement in the half-wave potential against Fe2O3. The composites (Co2FeO4 and CoFe2O4) display better performance compared to their respective parent oxide systems (i.e., Co3O4 and Fe2O3, respectively) in terms of the ORR half-wave potential, which can be attributed to the presence of the oxygen vacancies over the surface in these systems. This was further corroborated in density functional theory (DFT) simulations, wherein the oxygen vacancy formation on the surface of CoFe2O4(001) was calculated to be significantly lower (∼50 kJ mol-1) compared to Co3O4 (001). The band diagram of the nanoparticles constructed from the various spectroscopic measurements with work function and band gap provides in-depth understanding of the electrocatalytic process.
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- Varchaswal Kashyap
- Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 41108, India.
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Postal Staff College Area, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-201002, India
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- Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 41108, India.
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Postal Staff College Area, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-201002, India
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- Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 41108, India.
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- Nanocatalysis Area, Light Stock Processing Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun 248005, Uttarakhand, India.
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- Renewable Energy and Chemicals Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, Delhi 110016, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Postal Staff College Area, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-201002, India
- Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 41108, India.
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- Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 41108, India.
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Postal Staff College Area, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-201002, India
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Meng F, Wang S, Jiang B, Ju L, Xie H, Jiang W, Ji Q. Coordinated regulation of phosphorus/nitrogen doping in fullerene-derived hollow carbon spheres and their synergistic effect for the oxygen reduction reaction. NANOSCALE 2022; 14:10389-10398. [PMID: 35819051 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr02358j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Fullerene-derived carbons have been demonstrated as effective electrode materials for electrocatalytic reactions. The heteroatoms in the carbon matrix are essential to enhance their electrocatalytic performance but are still challenging for effective doping strategies and understanding their synergistic effect. Herein, we regulate the phosphorus/nitrogen (P/N) doping in the carbon structure based on the control mixing of pyritic acid (PA) with the assembled diamine-C60 hollow spheres (N@FHS). After pyrolysis, the carbon spheres are shown to have a homogenous distribution of N and P (NP@CHS). The structural and molecular analysis reveals that the doping of P may facilitate the formation of graphitic N in the carbon framework. When used as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), NP@CHSs exhibit superior oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) performance in contrast to those of fullerene-derived carbon with single N doping and the commercial Pt/C (20 wt%) catalyst. Density functional theory (DFT) studies indicate that P/N-doping promotes the charge transfer in the carbon structure owing to its strong electronegativity. The enhanced ORR activity should be mainly due to the P- and N-coordinated neighboring C sites with the defective fullerene pentagon ring.
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- Fancang Meng
- Herbert Gleiter Institute for Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- National Special Superfine Powder Engineering Technology Research Center, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute for Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute for Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- Hangzhou Yanqu Information Technology Co., Ltd., Building 2, Xixi Legu Creative Pioneering Park, No. 712 Wen'er West Road, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- National Special Superfine Powder Engineering Technology Research Center, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute for Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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Fabrication of Efficient Gold−Nickel-Supported Titania Nanotube Electrocatalysts for Sodium Borohydride−Hydrogen Peroxide Fuel Cells. COATINGS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/coatings12060850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Here we report the optimization of the fabrication conditions for AuNi bimetallic catalysts supported on self-ordered titania nanotube arrays (AuNi-TiO2ntb). A series of efficient AuNi-TiO2ntb catalysts with small amounts of Au in the range of 1.74 to 15.7 μgAu·cm−2 have been fabricated by anodization, electroless Ni plating, and galvanic displacement techniques. The electrocatalytic activity of the catalysts has been evaluated for BH4− ion oxidation in an alkaline medium using cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The performance of a NaBH4-H2O2 fuel cell with Ni-TiO2ntb and AuNi-TiO2ntb anode catalysts has been investigated at different temperatures. It was found that the electrocatalytic activity of AuNi-TiO2ntbs catalysts was improved remarkably when the Ni layer of 100 and 400 nm was used for the deposition of Au crystallites. The Ni-TiO2ntb catalyst generates the maximum power density values of ca. 85–121 mW·cm−2 at a temperature of 25–55 °C, whereas the AuNi-TiO2ntb catalysts that have the Au loading of 3.07 and 15.7 μgAu·cm−2 achieve the power density values of ca. 104–147 and 119–170 mW·cm−2, respectively, at a temperature of 25–55 °C.
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Jin L, You S, Ren N, Liu Y. Selective Activation of Peroxymonosulfate to Singlet Oxygen by Engineering Oxygen Vacancy Defects in Ti3CNTx MXene for Effective Removal of Micropollutants in Water. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Chattopadhyay J, Pathak TS, Pak D. Heteroatom-Doped Metal-Free Carbon Nanomaterials as Potential Electrocatalysts. Molecules 2022; 27:670. [PMID: 35163935 PMCID: PMC8838211 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27030670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2022] [Revised: 01/15/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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In recent years, heteroatom-incorporated specially structured metal-free carbon nanomaterials have drawn huge attention among researchers. In comparison to the undoped carbon nanomaterials, heteroatoms such as nitrogen-, sulphur-, boron-, phosphorous-, etc., incorporated nanomaterials have become well-accepted as potential electrocatalysts in water splitting, supercapacitors and dye-sensitized solar cells. This review puts special emphasis on the most popular synthetic strategies of heteroatom-doped and co-doped metal-free carbon nanomaterials, viz., chemical vapor deposition, pyrolysis, solvothermal process, etc., utilized in last two decades. These specially structured nanomaterials' extensive applications as potential electrocatalysts are taken into consideration in this article. Their comparative enhancement of electrocatalytic performance with incorporation of heteroatoms has also been discussed.
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- Department of Science and Humanities, Surendra Institute of Engineering and Management, Siliguri, Darjeeling 734009, India;
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01811, Korea
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