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Barrio J, Pedersen A, Favero S, Luo H, Wang M, Sarma SC, Feng J, Ngoc LTT, Kellner S, Li AY, Jorge Sobrido AB, Titirici MM. Bioinspired and Bioderived Aqueous Electrocatalysis. Chem Rev 2023; 123:2311-2348. [PMID: 36354420 PMCID: PMC9999430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The development of efficient and sustainable electrochemical systems able to provide clean-energy fuels and chemicals is one of the main current challenges of materials science and engineering. Over the last decades, significant advances have been made in the development of robust electrocatalysts for different reactions, with fundamental insights from both computational and experimental work. Some of the most promising systems in the literature are based on expensive and scarce platinum-group metals; however, natural enzymes show the highest per-site catalytic activities, while their active sites are based exclusively on earth-abundant metals. Additionally, natural biomass provides a valuable feedstock for producing advanced carbonaceous materials with porous hierarchical structures. Utilizing resources and design inspiration from nature can help create more sustainable and cost-effective strategies for manufacturing cost-effective, sustainable, and robust electrochemical materials and devices. This review spans from materials to device engineering; we initially discuss the design of carbon-based materials with bioinspired features (such as enzyme active sites), the utilization of biomass resources to construct tailored carbon materials, and their activity in aqueous electrocatalysis for water splitting, oxygen reduction, and CO2 reduction. We then delve in the applicability of bioinspired features in electrochemical devices, such as the engineering of bioinspired mass transport and electrode interfaces. Finally, we address remaining challenges, such as the stability of bioinspired active sites or the activity of metal-free carbon materials, and discuss new potential research directions that can open the gates to the implementation of bioinspired sustainable materials in electrochemical devices.
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- Jesús Barrio
- Department of Materials, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Materials, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Materials, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, LondonE1 4NS, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, LondonE1 4NS, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K
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- School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, LondonE1 4NS, England, U.K
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, LondonSW7 2AZ, England, U.K.,Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aobaku, Sendai, Miyagi980-8577, Japan
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Zhao K, Han S, Ke L, Wu X, Yan X, Cao X, Li L, Jiang X, Wang Z, Liu H, Yan N. Operando Studies of Electrochemical Denitrogenation and Its Mitigation of N-Doped Carbon Catalysts in Alkaline Media. ACS Catal 2023; 13:2813-2821. [PMID: 36910874 PMCID: PMC9990068 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c05590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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N-doped carbons (NCs) have excellent electrocatalytic performance in oxygen reduction reaction, particularly in alkaline conditions, showing great promise of replacing commercial Pt/C catalysts in fuel cells and metal-air batteries. However, NCs are vulnerable when biased at high potentials, which suffer from denitrogenation and carbon corrosion. Such material degradation drastically undermines the activity, yet its dynamic evolution in response to the applied potentials is challenging to examine experimentally. In this work, we used differential electrochemical mass spectroscopy coupled with an optimized cell and observed the dynamic behaviors of NCs under operando conditions in KOH electrolyte. The corrosion of carbon occurred at ca. 1.2 V vs RHE, which was >0.3 V below the measured onset potential of water oxidation. Denitrogenation proceeded in parallel with carbon corrosion, releasing both NO and NO2. Combined with the ex situ characterizations and density-functional theory calculations, we identified that the pyridinic nitrogen moieties were particularly in peril. Three denitrogenation pathways were also proposed. Finally, we demonstrated that transferring the oxidation reaction sites to the well-deposited metal hydroxide with optimized loading was effective in suppressing the N leaching. This work showed the dynamic evolution of NC under potential bias and might cast light on understanding and mitigating NC deactivation for practical applications.
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- Kai Zhao
- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.,Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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Yuan Z, Li X. Perspective of alkaline zinc-based flow batteries. Sci China Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-022-1456-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Pu M, Guo Y, Guo W. Strain-mediated oxygen evolution reaction on magnetic two-dimensional monolayers. NANOSCALE HORIZONS 2022; 7:1404-1410. [PMID: 36043388 DOI: 10.1039/d2nh00318j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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By screening 56 magnetic 2D monolayers through first-principles calculations, it was found that 8 magnetic 2D monolayers (CoO2, FeO2, FeSe, FeTe, VS2, VSe2, VTe2 and CrSe2) can bind O*, OH* and OOH* intermediates of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), in which the overpotentials of CoO2, FeO2, VSe2, and VTe2 monolayers are 0.684, 1.107, 0.863 and 0.837 V, respectively. After applying suitable biaxial tensile strains, the overpotentials of CoO2, FeO2 and VTe2 monolayers are reduced over 40%. In particular, the overpotentials of CoO2 and VTe2 monolayers decrease to 0.372 V and 0.491 V under the biaxial tensile strains of 4.0% and 3.0%, respectively, which are comparable to the reported overpotentials of noble metal and low-dimensional materials. Tensile strains modify the potential determining step for the OER and enhance the catalytic activity of metal atoms of magnetic 2D monolayers. Magnetic 2D monolayers could be activated by strain engineering as catalysts for the OER.
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- Mingjie Pu
- State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, MOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, MOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, MOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices, College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
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Priyadarsini A, Mallik BS. Site dependent catalytic water dissociation on an anisotropic buckled black phosphorus surface. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:2582-2591. [PMID: 35029266 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05249g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Black phosphorus (BP) is unique among 2D materials due to its anisotropic puckered structure. It has been used as a multifunctional catalyst for various purposes. In this study, we performed first principles molecular dynamics simulations to understand the water-splitting reaction on a bi-layer BP surface. We focused on the site-specific aqueous reactivity of the buckled surface. A difference in the axis-dependent reactivity is observed owing to edge defects and exposed sites. Thus, we believe that BP edges, which significantly affect the interfacial water or organic solvent molecules, must exhibit very different edge-dependent reactivity. Experiments suggested the increasing catalytic efficiency of undisturbed BP in the order bulk, few-layered BP, and BP quantum dots. We choose three active sites to investigate the mechanistic details of the OER: the zigzag (ZZ), armchair (AC), and bulk sites. This study will provide insight into the enhanced catalytic activity when more edges are exposed as the active surface. We hope to clarify the reactive pathway in an aqueous solution supported by bi-layer BP by exploring the two different mechanisms for forming the OOH* complex. We explore and report two mechanisms: a simple push-pull reaction for oxygen-oxygen bond formation, the nucleophilic attack by formed OH- and an attack by a water molecule. The free energy barriers procured for mechanism 1 taking place at the zigzag, armchair, and bulk sites are 7.59 ± 0.33, 9.04 ± 0.01, and 12.80 ± 0.09 kcal mol-1, respectively. For mechanism 2 the free energy barriers are 7.62 ± 0.11, 9.15 ± 0.16, and 11.63 ± 0.11 kcal mol-1 for the ZZ, AC, and bulk sites. The interlink between both the mechanisms is established concerning the reported free energy barriers for OOH* formation. The ZZ site is found to lower the activation barrier for the rate-determining step, followed by the AC and bulk.
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- Adyasa Priyadarsini
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy 502284, Telangana, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy 502284, Telangana, India.
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Zoller F, Häringer S, Böhm D, Luxa J, Sofer Z, Fattakhova-Rohlfing D. Carbonaceous Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts: From Defect and Doping-Induced Activity over Hybrid Compounds to Ordered Framework Structures. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2007484. [PMID: 33942507 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is expected to be of great importance for the future energy conversion and storage in form of hydrogen by water electrolysis. Besides the traditional noble-metal or transition metal oxide-based catalysts, carbonaceous electrocatalysts are of great interest due to their huge structural and compositional variety and unrestricted abundance. This review provides a summary of recent advances in the field of carbon-based OER catalysts ranging from "pure" or unintentionally doped carbon allotropes over heteroatom-doped carbonaceous materials and carbon/transition metal compounds to metal oxide composites where the role of carbon is mainly assigned to be a conductive support. Furthermore, the review discusses the recent developments in the field of ordered carbon framework structures (metal organic framework and covalent organic framework structures) that potentially allow a rational design of heteroatom-doped 3D porous structures with defined composition and spatial arrangement of doping atoms to deepen the understanding on the OER mechanism on carbonaceous structures in the future. Besides introducing the structural and compositional origin of electrochemical activity, the review discusses the mechanism of the catalytic activity of carbonaceous materials, their stability under OER conditions, and potential synergistic effects in combination with metal (or metal oxide) co-catalysts.
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- Florian Zoller
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-1): Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, Jülich, 52425, Germany
- Faculty of Engineering and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, Duisburg, 47057, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Butenandtstrasse 5-13 (E), Munich, 81377, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-1): Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, Jülich, 52425, Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-1): Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, Jülich, 52425, Germany
- Faculty of Engineering and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstraße 1, Duisburg, 47057, Germany
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Li L, Wang P, Shao Q, Huang X. Recent Progress in Advanced Electrocatalyst Design for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2004243. [PMID: 33749035 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzers hold great significance for renewable energy storage and conversion. The acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of the main roadblocks that hinder the practical application of PEM water electrolyzers. Highly active, cost-effective, and durable electrocatalysts are indispensable for lowering the high kinetic barrier of OER to achieve boosted reaction kinetics. To date, a wide spectrum of advanced electrocatalysts has been designed and synthesized for enhanced acidic OER performance, though Ir and Ru based nanostructures still represent the state-of-the-art catalysts. In this Progress Report, recent research progress in advanced electrocatalysts for improved acidic OER performance is summarized. First, fundamental understanding about acidic OER including reaction mechanisms and atomic understanding to acidic OER for rational design of efficient electrocatalysts are discussed. Thereafter, an overview of the progress in the design and synthesis of advanced acidic OER electrocatalysts is provided in terms of catalyst category, i.e., metallic nanostructures (Ir and Ru based), precious metal oxides, nonprecious metal oxides, and carbon based nanomaterials. Finally, perspectives to the future development of acidic OER are provided from the aspects of reaction mechanism investigation and more efficient electrocatalyst design.
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- Leigang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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Nan Y, Zhang Z, He Y, Wei J, Zhou Y. Optimized Nanopores Opened on N-Doped Carbon Nanohorns Filled with Fe/Fe 2O 3 Nanoparticles as Advanced Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:16529-16537. [PMID: 34665597 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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N-doped carbon nanohorns filled with Fe nanoparticles (Fe-N-CNHs) were produced by one-step positive pressure-assisted arc discharge in the Ar and N2 mixture. After oxidation treatments in air, Fe was converted into Fe2O3, and nanopores were opened on CNHs from 1 to 5 nm controlled by oxidation temperature. Fe-N-CNHs oxidized in O2 at 550 °C (Fe2O3-N-CNH550ox) show 245 mV at 20 mA cm-1, which is much smaller than that of the ones oxidized at 500 °C (Fe2O3-N-CNH500ox), contributing to the larger pore size on CNHs (3-5 nm vs 2-3 nm) and a larger number of nanopores caused by the enhanced sidewall nanopores. However, the stability of Fe2O3-N-CNH550ox becomes much poorer than that of Fe2O3-N-CNH500ox after 2000 cycles. The unique relationship between the overpotential and long-term stability can be explained by the consideration of the size of Fe2O3 nanoparticles and nanopores on CNHs. Furthermore, the stability for Fe2O3-N-CNH550ox can be rapidly increased after heat treatment in Ar for 1 h caused by shrinking the size of tip nanopores. Herein, we first reveal that the performance of OER is related to the nanopore size of carbon carriers and the catalyst of nanometal particles. The optimization of pore-opening conditions in carbon carriers can be achieved a superior electrocatalytic OER performance, including a low overpotential at high current density and long-term stability.
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- Yanli Nan
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
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- School of Medical Information and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Lu Zhou 646000, China
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Nan Y, He Y, Zhang Z, Wei J, Zhang Y. Controllable synthesis of N-doped carbon nanohorns: tip from closed to half-closed, used as efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction. RSC Adv 2021; 11:35463-35471. [PMID: 35493191 PMCID: PMC9043249 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra06458d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The development of efficient, cost-effective and stable N-doped carbon material with catalytic activity as an excellent catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical for renewable energy systems. In this study, the unique tip-half-closed N-doped carbon nanohorns (THC-N-CNHs) were firstly produced by the positive pressure-assisted arc discharge method using N2 as the nitrogen source. Benefitting from the novel tip-half-closed structure and sufficient porosity, the specific surface area (SSA) of THC-N-CNHs is calculated to be 670 m2 g-1 without any further treatment, which is three times larger than that of traditional tip-closed CNHs. More importantly, the content of nitrogen can achieve ∼1.98 at% with noticeable pyridinic-N enrichment, increasing the number of active sites for the OER. Furthermore, the three-dimensional spherical feature and the unique pore structure for THC-N-CNHs lead to the fast transportation of electrons, and facile release of the evolved O2 bubbles during the OER process. Therefore, THC-N-CNHs exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity toward the OER, with an overpotential of 328 mV at 10 mA cm-2, which is superior to that of most N-doped carbon material-based electrocatalysts. Meanwhile, the resulting catalyst also shows excellent durability after long-term cycling. Finally, we emphasize that THC-N-CNHs can be promising candidates as cheap, industrially scalable catalytic scaffolds for OER application.
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- Yanli Nan
- School of Material Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Xi'an 710055 China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Xi'an 710055 China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Xi'an 710055 China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Nano Materials and Technology, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology Xi'an 710055 China
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- Ningbo University of Finance and Economics Ningbo 315175 China
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Cirone J, Dondapati JS, Chen A. Design of bimetallic nickel-iron quantum dots with tunable compositions for enhanced electrochemical water splitting. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Sachdeva PK, Gupta S, Bera C. Designing an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst heterostructure. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:9426-9429. [PMID: 34528943 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc02492b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Oxygen and hydrogen evolutions are the two fundamental processes involved in electrocatalytic water splitting. Two dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and graphene-based materials are regarded as the emergent catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, doped graphene and molybdenum dichalcogenide heterostructures are evaluated for their catalytic activity using density functional theory (DFT). The Janus MoSSe and P-doped graphene heterostructure is found to have the best electrocatalytic activities with smaller overpotential values (ηOER = 1.67 V and ηHER = 0.10 V) as compared to those of the parent monolayers graphene (ηOER = 1.85 V and ηHER = 1.80 V) and MoS2 (ηOER = 2.99 V and ηHER = 1.72 V).
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- Parrydeep Kaur Sachdeva
- Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Sector-81, Knowledge City, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab 140306, India. .,University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh 160014, India.,Department of Physics, Panjab University, Sector-14, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Sector-25, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Sector-81, Knowledge City, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab 140306, India.
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Blackstone C, Ignaszak A. Van der Waals Heterostructures-Recent Progress in Electrode Materials for Clean Energy Applications. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 14:3754. [PMID: 34279324 PMCID: PMC8269904 DOI: 10.3390/ma14133754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The unique layered morphology of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures give rise to a blended set of electrochemical properties from the 2D sheet components. Herein an overview of their potential in energy storage systems in place of precious metals is conducted. The most recent progress on vdW electrocatalysis covering the last three years of research is evaluated, with an emphasis on their catalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This analysis is conducted in pair with the most active Pt-based commercial catalyst currently utilized in energy systems that rely on the above-listed electrochemistry (metal-air battery, fuel cells, and water electrolyzers). Based on current progress in HER catalysis that employs vdW materials, several recommendations can be stated. First, stacking of the two types vdW materials, with one being graphene or its doped derivatives, results in significantly improved HER activity. The second important recommendation is to take advantage of an electronic coupling when stacking 2D materials with the metallic surface. This significantly reduces the face-to-face contact resistance and thus improves the electron transfer from the metallic surface to the vdW catalytic plane. A dual advantage can be achieved from combining the vdW heterostructure with metals containing an excess of d electrons (e.g., gold). Despite these recent and promising discoveries, more studies are needed to solve the complexity of the mechanism of HER reaction, in particular with respect to the electron coupling effects (metal/vdW combinations). In addition, more affordable synthetic pathways allowing for a well-controlled confined HER catalysis are emerging areas.
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- Chance Blackstone
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada
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Priyadarsini A, Mallik BS. Comparative first principles-based molecular dynamics study of catalytic mechanism and reaction energetics of water oxidation reaction on 2D-surface. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:1138-1149. [PMID: 33851446 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The study of the water-splitting process, which can proceed in 2e- as well as 4e- pathway, reveals that the process is entirely an uphill process, and the third step, that is, the oxooxo bond formation is the rate-determining step. The kinetic barrier of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on the 2D material catalysts in the presence of explicit solvents is scarcely studied. Here, we investigate the dynamics of the OER on the undoped graphene and the activation energy barrier of each step using first principles molecular dynamics simulations. Here we provide a detailed analysis of the kinetics of all the 4e- transfer steps of OER on the graphene surface. We also compare the accuracy of one of the density functional theory (DFT) functionals and density functional based tight binding (DFTB) method in explaining the OER steps. The comparative study reveals that DFTB can be used for performing metadynamics simulations quipped with much less computational cost than DFT functionals. By both Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof and DFTB methods, the third step is revealed to be the rate-determining step with an energy barrier of 21.19 ± 0.51 and 20.23 ± 0.20 kcal mol-1 , respectively. DFTB gives an impression of being successful in predicting the energy barriers of OER in 4e- transfer pathway and comparable to the DFT method, and we would like to extend the use of DFTB for further studies with a sizable and complex system.
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- Adyasa Priyadarsini
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Telangana, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Telangana, India
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Riyaz M, Gupta S, Goel N. First Principle Studies to Tailor Graphene Through Synergistic Effect as a Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:1141-1147. [PMID: 33871907 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202001020] [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: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) is one of the major roadblocks for electrocatalytic oxidation of water (water splitting) and for designing efficient metal-air batteries. Herein, we present a comprehensive study to design graphene based efficient electrocatalyst, modified by doping with main group elements Al, Si, P, S and co-doping with B and N, for OER using DFT computations. Four elementary steps in the OER reaction have been traced, free energy change for each elementary step was calculated considering thermodynamic corrections. Out of all the doped models, S doped graphene shows maximum efficiency that was further enhanced by adjusting the concentration of codopants B and N around the active dopant site. Our results show that synergy between codopants B and N and dopant S atom leads to high electrocatalytic efficiency of modified graphene towards OER and brings down the overpotential to as low as 0.44 V.
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- Mohd Riyaz
- Theoretical & Computational Chemistry group, Department of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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- University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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- Theoretical & Computational Chemistry group, Department of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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Kazakova MA, Koul A, Golubtsov GV, Selyutin AG, Ishchenko AV, Kvon RI, Kolesov BA, Schuhmann W, Morales DM. Nitrogen and Oxygen Functionalization of Multi‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Tuning the Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction/Oxygen Evolution Performance of Supported FeCo Oxide Nanoparticles. ChemElectroChem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202100556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Mariya A. Kazakova
- Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS Lavrentieva 5 630090 Novosibirsk Russia
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- Analytical Chemistry – Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Universitätsstr. 150 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS Lavrentieva 5 630090 Novosibirsk Russia
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- Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS Lavrentieva 5 630090 Novosibirsk Russia
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS Lavrentieva 3 630090 Novosibirsk Russia
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- Analytical Chemistry – Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ruhr University Bochum Universitätsstr. 150 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH Nachwuchsgruppe Gestaltung des Sauerstoffentwicklungsmechanismus Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1 14109 Berlin Germany
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Stable and boosted oxygen evolution efficiency of mixed metal oxide and borate planner heterostructure over heteroatom (N) doped electrochemically exfoliated graphite foam. Catal Today 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2021.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gu Y, Wang S, Shi H, Yang J, Li S, Zheng H, Jiang W, Liu J, Zhong X, Wang J. Atomic Pt Embedded in BNC Nanotubes for Enhanced Electrochemical Ozone Production via an Oxygen Intermediate-Rich Local Environment. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Yu Gu
- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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- Institute of Industrial Catalysis, College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green-Chemical Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032 China
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Priyadarsini A, Mallik BS. Effects of Doped N, B, P, and S Atoms on Graphene toward Oxygen Evolution Reactions. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:5368-5378. [PMID: 33681576 PMCID: PMC7931212 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Molecular oxygen and hydrogen can be obtained from the water-splitting process through the electrolysis technique. However, harnessing energy is very challenging in this way due to the involvement of the 4e- reaction pathway, which is associated with a substantial amount of reaction barrier. After the report of the first N-doped graphene acting as an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst, the scientific community set out on exploring more reliable doping materials, better material engineering techniques, and developing computational models to explain the interfacial reactions. In this study, we modeled the graphene surface with four different nonmetal doping atoms N, B, P, and S individually by replacing a carbon atom from one of the graphitic positions. We report the mechanism of the complete catalytic cycle for each of the doped surfaces by the doping atom. The energy barriers for individual steps were explored using the biased first-principles molecular dynamics simulations to overcome the high reaction barrier. We explain the active sites and provide a comparison between the activation energy obtained by the application of two computational methods. Observing the rate-determining step, that is, oxo-oxo bond formation, S-doped graphene is the most effective. In contrast, N-doped graphene seems to be the least useful for oxygen evolution catalysis compared to the undoped graphene surface. B-doped graphene and P-doped graphene have an equivalent impact on the catalytic cycle.
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- Adyasa Priyadarsini
- Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy 502285, Telangana, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy 502285, Telangana, India
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Si H, Han C, Cui Y, Sang S, Liu K, Liu H, Wu Q. Hydrophilic NiFe-LDH/Ti3C2Tx/NF electrode for assisting efficiently oxygen evolution reaction. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2020.121943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zhang H, Clark JH, Geng T, Zhang H, Cao F. A Carbon Catalyst Co-Doped with P and N for Efficient and Selective Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural into 2,5-Diformylfuran. CHEMSUSCHEM 2021; 14:456-466. [PMID: 32804445 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A newly designed N and P co-doped carbon material has been developed to catalyze the conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandialdehyde (DFF) with unprecedented yield and selectivity and demonstrating a synergistic effect between the heteroatoms. The desired catalyst was first synthesized via a pyrolysis method using urea as the nitrogen and carbon source followed by calcination with phytic acid solution as the phosphorus source. The mass ratio of phytic acid to C3 N4 and calcination temperature were varied to investigate their effects on catalyst synthesis and microstructure as well as subsequent catalytic activity in simple reaction systems under oxygen. The effect of reaction conditions on the final HMF conversion and DFF selectivity were also investigated systematically. The P-C-N-5-800 catalyst obtained with the optimized annealing temperature of 800 °C and mass ratio of phytic acid/C3 N4 of 5 enabled a 99.5 % DFF yield at 120 °C for 9 h under 10 bar oxygen pressure, being the highest among any reported metal-free heterogeneous catalyst to date. The excellent performance of P-C-N-5-800 could be ascribed to the synergy between N and P heteroatoms as well as the high content of graphitic-N and the P-C species within the carbon structure. Reusability studies show that the P-C-N-5-800 catalyst was stable and reusable without deactivation. These results strongly suggest that P-C-N-5-800 is a promising catalyst for large-scale production of DFF in a green manner.
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- Huifa Zhang
- Engineering Research Centre of Large Scale Reactor Engineering and Technology of ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China
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- Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York, York, YO105DD, UK
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- Engineering Research Centre of Large Scale Reactor Engineering and Technology of ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China
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- SINOPEC North China E&P Company, Zhengzhou, 450006, P. R. China
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- Engineering Research Centre of Large Scale Reactor Engineering and Technology of ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China
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Enterría M, Gómez-Urbano JL, Munuera JM, Villar-Rodil S, Carriazo D, Paredes JI, Ortiz-Vitoriano N. Boosting the Performance of Graphene Cathodes in Na-O 2 Batteries by Exploiting the Multifunctional Character of Small Biomolecules. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2005034. [PMID: 33325651 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202005034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Graphene aerogels derived from a biomolecule-assisted aqueous electrochemical exfoliation route are explored as cathode materials in sodium-oxygen (Na-O2 ) batteries. To this end, the natural nucleotide adenosine monophosphate (AMP) is used in the multiple roles of exfoliating electrolyte, aqueous dispersant, and functionalizing agent to access high quality, electrocatalytically active graphene nanosheets in colloidal suspension (bioinks). The surface phenomena occurring on the electrochemically derived graphene cathode is thoroughly studied to understand and optimize its electrochemical performance, where a cooperative effect between the nitrogen atoms and phosphates from the AMP molecules is demonstrated. Moreover, the role of the nitrogen atoms in the adenine nucleobase of AMP and short-chain phosphate is unraveled. Significantly, the use of such cathodes with a proper amount of AMP molecules adsorbed on the graphene nanosheets delivers a discharge capacity as high as 9.6 mAh cm-2 and performs almost 100 cycles with a considerably reduced cell overpotential and a coulombic efficiency of ≈97% at high current density (0.2 mA cm-2 ). This study opens a path toward the development of environmentally friendly air cathodes by the use of natural nucleotides which offers a great opportunity to explore and manufacture bioinspired cathodes for metal-oxygen batteries.
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- Marina Enterría
- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Spain
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, P.O. Box 664, Bilbao, 48080, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono, INCAR-CSIC, C/Francisco Pintado Fe 26, Oviedo, 33011, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono, INCAR-CSIC, C/Francisco Pintado Fe 26, Oviedo, 33011, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, 48013, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono, INCAR-CSIC, C/Francisco Pintado Fe 26, Oviedo, 33011, Spain
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- Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein, 48, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 01510, Spain
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, 48013, Spain
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Hybrid Molybdenum Carbide/Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Electrocatalyst for Advanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Hydrogen Production. Catalysts 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/catal10111290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Hydrogen energy is one of the key technologies that can help to prevent global warming. A water electrolysis process can be used to produce hydrogen, in which hydrogen is produced at one electrode of the electrochemical cell, and oxygen is produced at the other electrode. On the other hand, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) requires multiple reaction steps and precious-metal-based catalysts (e.g., Ru/C, Ir/C, RuO2, and IrO2) as electrocatalysts to improve the reaction rate. Their high cost and limited supply, however, limit their applications to the mass production of hydrogen. In this study, boron, nitrogen-doped carbon incorporated with molybdenum carbide (MoC-BN/C) was synthesized to replace the precious-metal-based catalysts in the OER. B, N-doped carbon with nanosized molybdenum nanoparticles was fabricated by plasma engineering. The synthesized catalysts were heat-treated at 600, 700, and 800 °C in nitrogen for one hour to enhance the conductivity. The best MoC-BN/C electrocatalysts (heated at 800 °C) exhibited superior OER catalytic activity: 1.498 V (vs. RHE) and 1.550 V at a current density of 10 and 100 mA/cm2, respectively. The hybrid electrocatalysts even outperformed the noble electrocatalyst (5 wt.% Ru/C) with higher stability. Therefore, the hybrid electrocatalyst can replace expensive precious-metal-based catalysts for the upcoming hydrogen economy.
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Govind Rajan A, Martirez JMP, Carter EA. Why Do We Use the Materials and Operating Conditions We Use for Heterogeneous (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting? ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Ananth Govind Rajan
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592, United States
- Office of the Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951405, Los Angeles, California 90095-1405, United States
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Dias JA, Andrade MAS, Santos HLS, Morelli MR, Mascaro LH. Lanthanum‐Based Perovskites for Catalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemElectroChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202000451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Jeferson A. Dias
- Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Laboratório de Formulação e Sínteses Cerâmicas-LAFSCerUniversidade Federal de São Carlos Rod. Washington Luís, km 235 São Carlos/SP Brazil 13565-905
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Caracterização de Materiais Funcionais-CDMF-LIECUniversidade Federal de São Carlos Rod. Washington Luís, km 235 São Carlos/SP Brazil 13565-905
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Caracterização de Materiais Funcionais-CDMF-LIECUniversidade Federal de São Carlos Rod. Washington Luís, km 235 São Carlos/SP Brazil 13565-905
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- Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Laboratório de Formulação e Sínteses Cerâmicas-LAFSCerUniversidade Federal de São Carlos Rod. Washington Luís, km 235 São Carlos/SP Brazil 13565-905
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Caracterização de Materiais Funcionais-CDMF-LIECUniversidade Federal de São Carlos Rod. Washington Luís, km 235 São Carlos/SP Brazil 13565-905
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Mousavi DS, Asen P, Shahrokhian S, Irajizad A. Three-dimensional hybrid of iron–titanium mixed oxide/nitrogen-doped graphene on Ni foam as a superior electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 563:241-251. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.12.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Li L, Wang P, Shao Q, Huang X. Metallic nanostructures with low dimensionality for electrochemical water splitting. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:3072-3106. [PMID: 32309830 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00013b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Metallic nanostructures with low dimensionality (one-dimension and two-dimension) possess unique structural characteristics and distinctive electronic and physicochemical properties including high aspect ratio, high specific surface area, high density of surface unsaturated atoms and high electron mobility. These distinctive features have rendered them remarkable advantages over their bulk counterparts for surface-related applications, for example, electrochemical water splitting. In this review article, we highlight the recent research progress in low-dimensional metallic nanostructures for electrochemical water splitting including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Fundamental understanding of the electrochemistry of water splitting including HER and OER is firstly provided from the aspects of catalytic mechanisms, activity descriptors and property evaluation metrics. Generally, it is challenging to obtain low-dimensional metallic nanostructures with desirable characteristics for HER and OER. We hereby introduce several typical methods for synthesizing one-dimensional and two-dimensional metallic nanostructures including organic ligand-assisted synthesis, hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis, carbon monoxide confined growth, topotactic reduction, and templated growth. We then put emphasis on the strategies adopted for the design and fabrication of high-performance low-dimensional metallic nanostructures for electrochemical water splitting such as alloying, structure design, surface engineering, interface engineering and strain engineering. The underlying structure-property correlation for each strategy is elucidated aiming to facilitate the design of more advanced electrocatalysts for water splitting. The challenges and perspectives for the development of electrochemical water splitting and low-dimensional metallic nanostructures are also proposed.
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- Leigang Li
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, No. 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China.
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, No. 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China.
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, No. 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China.
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, No. 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China.
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Gíslason PM, Skúlason E. Catalytic trends of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:18683-18690. [PMID: 31588951 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr03195b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Replacing the state-of-the-art fuel cell catalyst platinum for a cheaper and abundant alternative would make the hydrogen economy viable. Both nitrogen-doped graphene and nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNT) have been shown to be capable of acting as a metal-free catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Until now, most of the research has been focused on the nitrogen doping and less on the structure of the nanotubes. Here, density functional theory calculations are used to calculate trends in ORR catalytic activity of graphitic-N-doped CNTs of different sizes and chirality of selected tubes between (4,0) and (20,10). This includes 13 armchair tubes, 17 zig-zag tubes and 42 chiral tubes, or 72 N-CNTs in total. 22 tubes are predicted to have a lower overpotential than the platinum catalyst and 46 tubes have lower overpotential than nitrogen doped graphene. The most active tubes are (14,7), (12,6), and (8,8), and display an overpotential of around 0.35 V, or 0.1 V lower overpotential than predicted on Pt(111) with the same level of theory.
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- Science Institute and Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Iceland VR-III, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Free-standing S, N co-doped graphene/Ni foam as highly efficient and stable electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Electrochim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Oxygen reduction/evolution activity of air electrodes using nitrogen-doped and perovskite-type oxide-loaded reduced graphene oxides. J APPL ELECTROCHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10800-019-01350-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Desalegn BZ, Jadhav HS, Seo JG. Highly Efficient g‐C
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Nanorods with Dual Active Sites as an Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemCatChem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Bezawit Z. Desalegn
- Advanced Materials and Catalysis Lab Department of Energy Science and TechnologyMyongji University Nam-dong, Cheoin-gu Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do 449-728 South Korea
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- Advanced Materials and Catalysis Lab Department of Energy Science and TechnologyMyongji University Nam-dong, Cheoin-gu Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do 449-728 South Korea
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- Advanced Materials and Catalysis Lab Department of Energy Science and TechnologyMyongji University Nam-dong, Cheoin-gu Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do 449-728 South Korea
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