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Qu K, Zhu X, Zhang Y, Song L, Wang J, Gong Y, Liu X, Wang AL. Enhancing Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia Through Crystal Phase Engineering: Unveiling the Hydrogen Bonding Effect in δ-FeOOH Electrocatalysis. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2401327. [PMID: 38429245 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202401327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
Abstract
Crystal phase engineering has emerged as a powerful tool for tailoring the electrocatalytic performance, yet its impact on nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) remains largely uncharted territory. Herein, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed to unravel the influence of the crystal phase of FeOOH on the adsorption behavior of *NO3. Inspiringly, FeOOH samples with four distinct crystal phases (δ, γ, α, and β) are successfully synthesized and deployed as electrocatalysts for NRA. Remarkably, among all FeOOH samples, δ-FeOOH demonstrates the superior NRA performance, achieving a NH3 Faradic efficiency (FE NH 3 $\rm{FE} _ {\rm{NH_3}}$ ) of 90.2% at -1.0 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and a NH3 yield rate (Yield NH 3 $\rm{Yield} _ {\rm{NH_3}}$ ) of 5.73 mg h-1 cm-2 at -1.2 V. In-depth experiments and theoretical calculations unveil the existence of hydrogen bonding interaction between δ-FeOOH and *NOx, which not only enhances the adsorption of *NOx but also disrupts the linear relationships between the free energy of *NO3 adsorption and various parameters, including limiting potential, d-band center (εd) and transferred charge from FeOOH to *NO3, ultimately contributing to the exceptional NRA performance.
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- Kaiyu Qu
- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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Xue F, Li Q, Ji W, Lv M, Xu H, Zeng J, Li T, Ren Y, Zhou L, Chen X, Deng J, Lin K, Xing X. Highly efficient semi-hydrogenation in strained ultrathin PdCu shell and the atomic deciphering for the unlocking of activity-selectivity. Chem Sci 2024; 15:11837-11846. [PMID: 39092101 PMCID: PMC11290329 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc03291h] [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: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024] Open
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Excellent ethylene selectivity in acetylene semi-hydrogenation is often obtained at the expense of activity. To break the activity-selectivity trade-off, precise control and in-depth understanding of the three-dimensional atomic structure of surfacial active sites are crucial. Here, we designed a novel Au@PdCu core-shell nanocatalyst featuring diluted and stretched Pd sites on the ultrathin shell (1.6 nm), which showed excellent reactivity and selectivity, with 100% acetylene conversion and 92.4% ethylene selectivity at 122 °C, and the corresponding activity was 3.3 times higher than that of the PdCu alloy. The atomic three-dimensional decoding for the activity-selectivity balance was revealed by combining pair distribution function (PDF) and reverse Monte Carlo simulation (RMC). The results demonstrate that a large number of active sites with a low coordination number of Pd-Pd pairs and an average 3.25% tensile strain are distributed on the surface of the nanocatalyst, which perform a pivotal function in the simultaneous improvement of hydrogenation activity and ethylene selectivity. Our work not only develops a novel strategy for unlocking the linear scaling relation in heterogeneous catalysis but also provides a paradigm for atomic 3D understanding of lattice strain in core-shell nanocatalysts.
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- Fan Xue
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan 030024 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences 201204 Shanghai P. R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 201800 Shanghai P. R. China
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Argonne Illinois 60439 USA
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- Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong 999077 China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai 200237 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China
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Martínez-Alonso C, LLorca J. Applicability of the d-Band Model to Predict the Influence of Elastic Strains on the Adsorption Energy of Different Adsorbates onto Pt and PtO 2 Surfaces. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:29884-29895. [PMID: 39005783 PMCID: PMC11238222 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c03830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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The influence of elastic strains on the adsorption processes of seven adsorbates (H, C, N, O, CO, NO, and H) onto the surface of Pt(111) and PtO2 (110) has been investigated using density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The total adsorption energy was decomposed into mechanical and electronic contributions. Our results indicate that elastic strain in metals affects the adsorption energy by modifying the electronic structure of the surface rather than changing the physical space where the atoms reside after adsorption. In fact, the mechanical contribution to the adsorption energy in Pt was negligible compared to the electronic interaction and independent of the deformation. The mechanical contribution in the case of PtO2 was also independent of the applied strain, but its magnitude was slightly higher due to the ionic bonding between Pt and O atoms in the slab. The variation of the electronic contribution to the adsorption energy in Pt and PtO2 followed the predictions of the d-band model for all adsorbates, expanding its applicability to different adsorbates onto the same surface and to oxides.
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- Carmen Martínez-Alonso
- IMDEA Materials Institute, C/Eric Kandel 2, Getafe, 28906 Madrid, Spain
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- IMDEA Materials Institute, C/Eric Kandel 2, Getafe, 28906 Madrid, Spain
- Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid, E. T. S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Phan-Xuan T, Breitung B, Dailey LA. Nanozymes for biomedical applications: Multi-metallic systems may improve activity but at the cost of higher toxicity? WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. NANOMEDICINE AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 16:e1981. [PMID: 39044339 DOI: 10.1002/wnan.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024]
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Nanozymes are nanomaterials with intrinsic enzyme-like activity with selected advantages over native enzymes such as simple synthesis, controllable activity, high stability, and low cost. These materials have been explored as surrogates to natural enzymes in biosensing, therapeutics, environmental protection, and many other fields. Among different nanozymes classes, metal- and metal oxide-based nanozymes are the most widely studied. In recent years, bi- and tri-metallic nanomaterials have emerged often showing improved nanozyme activity, some of which even possess multifunctional enzyme-like activity. Taking this concept even further, high-entropy nanomaterials, that is, complex multicomponent alloys and ceramics like oxides, may potentially enhance activity even further. However, the addition of various elements to increase catalytic activity may come at the cost of increased toxicity. Since many nanozyme compositions are currently being explored for in vivo biomedical applications, such as cancer therapeutics, toxicity considerations in relation to nanozyme application in biomedicine are of vital importance for translation. This article is categorized under: Therapeutic Approaches and Drug Discovery > Emerging Technologies Toxicology and Regulatory Issues in Nanomedicine > Toxicology of Nanomaterials Diagnostic Tools > Diagnostic Nanodevices.
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- Thuong Phan-Xuan
- Division of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Vienna Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences (PhaNuSpo), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- School of Medicine and Pharmacy, The University of Danang, Danang City, Vietnam
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Guo W, Chai DF, Li J, Yang X, Fu S, Sui G, Zhuang Y, Guo D. Strain Engineering for Electrocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Chempluschem 2024; 89:e202300605. [PMID: 38459914 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300605] [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: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
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Strain engineering is a novel method that can achieve superior performance for different applications. The lattice strain can affect the performance of electrochemical catalysts by changing the binding energy between the surface-active sites and intermediates and can be affected by the thickness, surface defects and composition of the materials. In this review, we summarized the basic principle, characterization method, introduction strategy and application direction of lattice strain. The reactions on hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are focused. Finally, the present challenges are summarized, and suggestions for the future development of lattice strain in electrocatalytic overall water splitting are put forward.
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- Wenxin Guo
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
- Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of College of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
- Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of College of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
- Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of College of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
- Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of College of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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- Mat Sci & Engn, Jiamusi, 154007, Heilongjiang, Peoples R China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
- Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of College of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, 161006, China
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Wu W, Luo L, Li Z, Luo J, Zhao J, Wang M, Ma X, Hu S, Chen Y, Chen W, Wang Z, Ma C, Li H, Zeng J. The Importance of Sintering-Induced Grain Boundaries in Copper Catalysis to Improve Carbon-Carbon Coupling. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202404983. [PMID: 38563622 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404983] [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: 03/13/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Syngas conversion serves as a gas-to-liquid technology to produce liquid fuels and valuable chemicals from coal, natural gas, or biomass. During syngas conversion, sintering is known to deactivate the catalyst owing to the loss of active surface area. However, the growth of nanoparticles might induce the formation of new active sites such as grain boundaries (GBs) which perform differently from the original nanoparticles. Herein, we reported a unique Cu-based catalyst, Cu nanoparticles with in situ generated GBs confined in zeolite Y (denoted as activated Cu/Y), which exhibited a high selectivity for C5+ hydrocarbons (65.3 C%) during syngas conversion. Such high selectivity for long-chain products distinguished activated Cu/Y from typical copper-based catalysts which mainly catalyze methanol synthesis. This unique performance was attributed to the GBs, while the zeolite assisted the stabilization through spatial confinement. Specifically, the GBs enabled H-assisted dissociation of CO and subsequent hydrogenation into CHx*. CHx* species not only serve as the initiator but also directly polymerize on Cu GBs, known as the carbide mechanism. Meanwhile, the synergy of GBs and their vicinal low-index facets led to the CO insertion where non-dissociative adsorbed CO on low-index facets migrated to GBs and inserted into the metal-alkyl bond for the chain growth.
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- Wenlong Wu
- Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, Hefei, 230088, P. R. China
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, Hefei, 230088, P. R. China
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
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- Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, Hefei, 230088, P. R. China
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, Anhui, 243002, P. R. China
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Kong Y, Pan J, Li Y, Zhang Y, Lin W. Synergistic effect between transition metal single atom and SnS 2 toward deep CO 2 reduction. iScience 2024; 27:109658. [PMID: 38646174 PMCID: PMC11031821 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
Abstract
The electrochemical reduction of CO2 is an efficient channel to facilitate energy conversion, but the rapid design and rational screening of high-performance catalysts remain a great challenge. In this work, we investigated the relationships between the configuration, energy, and electronic properties of SnS2 loaded with transition metal single atom (TM@SnS2) and analyzed the mechanism of CO2 activation and reduction by using density functional theory. The "charge transfer bridge" promoted the adsorption of CO2 on TM@SnS2, thus enhancing the binding of HCOOH∗ to the catalyst for further hydrogenation and reduction to high-value CH4. The research revealed that the binding free energy of COOH∗ on TM@SnS2 formed a "volcano curve" with the limiting potential of CO2 reduction to CH4, and the TM@SnS2 (TM = Cr, Ru, Os, and Pt) at the "volcano top" exhibited a high CH4 activity.
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- Yuehua Kong
- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, People’s Republic of China
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, People’s Republic of China
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Xu G, Sun L, Wang T. Demagnetizing Ferromagnetic Catalysts to the Sabatier Optimal of Haber-Bosch Process. JACS AU 2024; 4:1405-1412. [PMID: 38665674 PMCID: PMC11040701 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
Abstract
Achieving the Sabatier optimal of a chemical reaction has been the central topic in heterogeneous catalysis for a century. However, this ultimate goal was greatly hindered in previous catalyst design strategies since the active sites indeed changed. Fortunately, the magneto-catalytic effect (MCE) provides a promising solution to this long-standing challenge. Recent research suggests that the performance of ferromagnetic catalysts is capable to be promoted without changing its chemical structure. Herein, we use time-dependent density functional perturbation theory (TDDFPT) calculations to elucidate that a partially demagnetized (DM) ferromagnet could be a Sabatier optimal catalyst. Using ammonia synthesis as the model reaction, we determined the activity of Cobalt at each DM state by including the magnetic thermal excitations via magnon analysis, making the 55% DM Co to the genuine Sabatier optimal. As an essential but underexcavated phenomenon in heterogeneous catalysis, the MCE will open a new avenue to design high-performance catalysts.
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- Gaomou Xu
- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, 18
Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, 18
Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
- Division
of Solar Energy Conversion and Catalysis at Westlake University, Zhejiang Baima Lake Laboratory, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute
for Advanced Study, 18
Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
- Division
of Solar Energy Conversion and Catalysis at Westlake University, Zhejiang Baima Lake Laboratory, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
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Chen Y, Zhang R, Chen Z, Liao J, Song X, Liang X, Wang Y, Dong J, Singh CV, Wang D, Li Y, Toste FD, Zhao J. Heterogeneous Rhodium Single-Atom-Site Catalyst Enables Chemoselective Carbene N-H Bond Insertion. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:10847-10856. [PMID: 38583085 PMCID: PMC11027138 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
Abstract
Transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion reactions of a nitrogen-hydrogen bond have emerged as robust and versatile methods for the construction of C-N bonds. While significant progress of homogeneous catalytic metal carbene N-H insertions has been achieved, the control of chemoselectivity in the field remains challenging due to the high electrophilicity of the metal carbene intermediates. Herein, we present an efficient strategy for the synthesis of a rhodium single-atom-site catalyst (Rh-SA) that incorporates a Rh atom surrounded by three nitrogen atoms and one phosphorus atom doped in a carbon support. This Rh-SA catalyst, with a catalyst loading of only 0.15 mol %, exhibited exceptional catalytic performance for heterogeneous carbene insertion with various anilines and heteroaryl amines in combination with diazo esters. Importantly, the heterogeneous catalyst selectively transformed aniline derivatives bearing multiple nucleophilic moieties into single N-H insertion isomers, while the popular homogeneous Rh2(OAc)4 catalyst produced a mixture of overfunctionalized side products. Additionally, similar selectivities for N-H bond insertion with a set of stereoelectronically diverse diazo esters were obtained, highlighting the general applicability of this heterogeneous catalysis approach. On the basis of density functional theory calculations, the observed selectivity of the Rh-SA catalyst was attributed to the insertion barriers and the accelerated proton transfer assisted by the phosphorus atom in the support. Overall, this investigation of heterogeneous metal-catalyzed carbene insertion underscores the potential of single-atom-site catalysis as a powerful and complementary tool in organic synthesis.
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- Yuanjun Chen
- Key
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research
Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa
Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center
for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and
Molecular Engineering, East China University
of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China
- Department
of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China
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- Key
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research
Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa
Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center
for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and
Molecular Engineering, East China University
of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3E4, Canada
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- Beijing
Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- Key
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research
Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa
Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center
for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and
Molecular Engineering, East China University
of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai
Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Laboratory, Shanghai Advanced
Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing
Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S3E4, Canada
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- Department
of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China
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- Chemical
Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Key
Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research
Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa
Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center
for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and
Molecular Engineering, East China University
of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China
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Zhou S, Kosari M, Zeng HC. Boosting CO 2 Hydrogenation to Methanol over Monolayer MoS 2 Nanotubes by Creating More Strained Basal Planes. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:10032-10043. [PMID: 38563705 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c00781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The controlled creation, selective exposure, and activation of more basal planes while simultaneously minimizing the generation and exposure of edge sites are crucial for accelerating methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation over MoS2 catalysts but remain a bottleneck. Here, we report a facile method to fabricate heteronanotube catalysts with single-layer MoS2 coaxially encapsulating the carbon nanotubes (CNTs@MoS2) through host-guest chemistry. Inheriting the long tubular structure of CNTs, the grown MoS2 nanotubes exhibit significantly more basal planes than bulk MoS2 crystals. More importantly, the tubular curvature not only promotes strain and sulfur vacancy (Sv) generation but also preferentially exposes more in-plane Sv while limiting edge Sv exposure, which is conducive to methanol synthesis. Both the strain and layer number of MoS2 can be easily and finely adjusted by altering CNT diameter and quantity of precursors. Remarkably, CNTs@MoS2 with monolayer MoS2 and maximum strain displayed methanol selectivity of 78.1% and methanol space time yield of 1.6 g gMoS2-1 h-1 at 260 °C and GHSV of 24000 mL gcat.-1 h-1, representing the best results to date among Mo-based catalysts. This study provides prospects for novel catalyst design by synthesizing coaxial tubular heterostructure to create additional catalytic sites and ultimately enhance conversion and selectivity.
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- Shenghui Zhou
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
- The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore
- The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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Li Y, Gao D, Tang C, Guo Z, Miao N, Sa B, Zhou J, Sun Z. Breaking linear scaling relations by strain engineering on MXene for boosting N 2 electroreduction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 658:114-126. [PMID: 38100968 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.12.046] [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: 09/08/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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The development of N2 reduction reaction (NRR) electrocatalysts with excellent activity and selectivity is of great significance, but adsorption-energy linear scaling relations between reaction intermediates severely hamper the realization of this aspiration. Here, we propose an elegant strain engineering strategy to break the linear relations in NRR to promote catalytic activity and selectivity. Our results show that the N-N bond lengths of adsorbed N2 with side-on and end-on configurations exhibit opposite variations under strains, which is illuminated by establishing two different N2 activation mechanisms of "P-P" (Pull-Pull) and "E-E" (Electron-Electron). Then, we highlight that strain engineering can break the linear scaling relations in NRR, selectively optimizing the adsorption of key NH2NH2** and NH2* intermediates to realize a lower limiting potential (UL). Particularly, the catalytic activity-selectivity trade-off of NRR on MXene can be circumvented, resulting in a low UL of -0.25 V and high Faraday efficiency (FE), which is further elucidated to originate from the strain-modulated electronic structures. Last but not least, the catalytic sustainability of MXene under strain has been guaranteed. This work not only provides fundamental insights into the strain effect on catalysis but also pioneers a new avenue toward the rational design of superior NRR catalysts.
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- Ying Li
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Boron Nitride Micro and Nano Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Boron Nitride Micro and Nano Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Boron Nitride Micro and Nano Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Boron Nitride Micro and Nano Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-materials Advanced Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
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Sun S, Zhang Y, Shi X, Sun W, Felser C, Li W, Li G. From Charge to Spin: An In-Depth Exploration of Electron Transfer in Energy Electrocatalysis. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2312524. [PMID: 38482969 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Catalytic materials play crucial roles in various energy-related processes, ranging from large-scale chemical production to advancements in renewable energy technologies. Despite a century of dedicated research, major enduring challenges associated with enhancing catalyst efficiency and durability, particularly in green energy-related electrochemical reactions, remain. Focusing only on either the crystal structure or electronic structure of a catalyst is deemed insufficient to break the linear scaling relationship (LSR), which is the golden rule for the design of advanced catalysts. The discourse in this review intricately outlines the essence of heterogeneous catalysis reactions by highlighting the vital roles played by electron properties. The physical and electrochemical properties of electron charge and spin that govern catalysis efficiencies are analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the pronounced influence of external fields in perturbing the LSR, underscoring the vital role that electron spin plays in advancing high-performance catalyst design. The review culminates by proffering insights into the potential applications of spin catalysis, concluding with a discussion of extant challenges and inherent limitations.
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- Shubin Sun
- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry-Synthesis Technology Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry-Synthesis Technology of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- College of Material Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, 818 A Fenghua Rd, Jiangbei District, Ningbo, 315211, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- College of Material Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Topological Quantum Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Strasse 40, 01187, Dresden, Germany
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- CISRI & NIMTE Joint Innovation Center for Rare Earth Permanent Magnets, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Ningbo, 315201, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, and Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China
- College of Material Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China
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Wang B, Wang M, Fan Z, Ma C, Xi S, Chang LY, Zhang M, Ling N, Mi Z, Chen S, Leow WR, Zhang J, Wang D, Lum Y. Nanocurvature-induced field effects enable control over the activity of single-atom electrocatalysts. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1719. [PMID: 38409205 PMCID: PMC10897157 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46175-1] [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: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Tuning interfacial electric fields provides a powerful means to control electrocatalyst activity. Importantly, electric fields can modify adsorbate binding energies based on their polarizability and dipole moment, and hence operate independently of scaling relations that fundamentally limit performance. However, implementation of such a strategy remains challenging because typical methods modify the electric field non-uniformly and affects only a minority of active sites. Here we discover that uniformly tunable electric field modulation can be achieved using a model system of single-atom catalysts (SACs). These consist of M-N4 active sites hosted on a series of spherical carbon supports with varying degrees of nanocurvature. Using in-situ Raman spectroscopy with a Stark shift reporter, we demonstrate that a larger nanocurvature induces a stronger electric field. We show that this strategy is effective over a broad range of SAC systems and electrocatalytic reactions. For instance, Ni SACs with optimized nanocurvature achieved a high CO partial current density of ~400 mA cm-2 at >99% Faradaic efficiency for CO2 reduction in acidic media.
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- Bingqing Wang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis #08-03, Singapore, 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Singapore, 627833, Republic of Singapore
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis #08-03, Singapore, 138634, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Singapore, 627833, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Singapore, 627833, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis, Singapore, 138632, Republic of Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117585, Republic of Singapore.
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis #08-03, Singapore, 138634, Republic of Singapore.
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Ratwani CR, Karunarathne S, Kamali AR, Abdelkader AM. Transforming Nature's Bath Sponge into Stacking Faults-Enhanced Ag Nanorings-Decorated Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:5847-5856. [PMID: 38284621 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c16115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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The rational design of cost-effective and efficient electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting is essential for green hydrogen production. Utilizing nanocatalysts with abundant active sites, high surface area, and deliberate stacking faults is a promising approach for enhancing catalytic efficiency. In this study, we report a simple strategy to synthesize a highly efficient electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) using carbonized luffa cylindrica as a conductive N-doped carbon skeleton decorated with Ag nanorings that are activated by introducing stacking faults. The introduction of stacking faults and the resulting tensile strain into the Ag nanorings results in a significant decrease in the HER overpotential, enabling the use of Ag as an efficient HER electrocatalyst. Our findings demonstrate that manipulating the crystal properties of electrocatalysts, even for materials with intrinsically poor catalytic activity such as Ag, can result in highly efficient catalysts. Further, applying a conductive carbon backbone can lower the quantities of metal needed without compromising the HER activity. This approach opens up new avenues for designing high-performance electrocatalysts with very low metallic content, which could significantly impact the development of sustainable and cost-effective electrochemical water-splitting systems.
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- Chirag R Ratwani
- Department of Design and Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, U.K
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- Department of Design and Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, U.K
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- Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre (E2MC), School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, U.K
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- Department of Design and Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, U.K
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Liu G, Shih AJ, Deng H, Ojha K, Chen X, Luo M, McCrum IT, Koper MTM, Greeley J, Zeng Z. Site-specific reactivity of stepped Pt surfaces driven by stress release. Nature 2024; 626:1005-1010. [PMID: 38418918 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07090-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024]
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Heterogeneous catalysts are widely used to promote chemical reactions. Although it is known that chemical reactions usually happen on catalyst surfaces, only specific surface sites have high catalytic activity. Thus, identifying active sites and maximizing their presence lies at the heart of catalysis research1-4, in which the classic model is to categorize active sites in terms of distinct surface motifs, such as terraces and steps1,5-10. However, such a simple categorization often leads to orders of magnitude errors in catalyst activity predictions and qualitative uncertainties of active sites7,8,11,12, thus limiting opportunities for catalyst design. Here, using stepped Pt(111) surfaces and the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) as examples, we demonstrate that the root cause of larger errors and uncertainties is a simplified categorization that overlooks atomic site-specific reactivity driven by surface stress release. Specifically, surface stress release at steps introduces inhomogeneous strain fields, with up to 5.5% compression, leading to distinct electronic structures and reactivity for terrace atoms with identical local coordination, and resulting in atomic site-specific enhancement of ORR activity. For the terrace atoms flanking both sides of the step edge, the enhancement is up to 50 times higher than that of the atoms in the middle of the terrace, which permits control of ORR reactivity by either varying terrace widths or controlling external stress. Thus, the discovery of the above synergy provides a new perspective for both fundamental understanding of catalytically active atomic sites and design principles of heterogeneous catalysts.
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- Guangdong Liu
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High-Energy Scale Physics and Applications, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High-Energy Scale Physics and Applications, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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Chen ZW, Li J, Ou P, Huang JE, Wen Z, Chen L, Yao X, Cai G, Yang CC, Singh CV, Jiang Q. Unusual Sabatier principle on high entropy alloy catalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions. Nat Commun 2024; 15:359. [PMID: 38191599 PMCID: PMC10774414 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44261-4] [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: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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The Sabatier principle is widely explored in heterogeneous catalysis, graphically depicted in volcano plots. The most desirable activity is located at the peak of the volcano, and further advances in activity past this optimum are possible by designing a catalyst that circumvents the limitation entailed by the Sabatier principle. Herein, by density functional theory calculations, we discovered an unusual Sabatier principle on high entropy alloy (HEA) surface, distinguishing the "just right" (ΔGH* = 0 eV) in the Sabatier principle of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). A new descriptor was proposed to design HEA catalysts for HER. As a proof-of-concept, the synthesized PtFeCoNiCu HEA catalyst endows a high catalytic performance for HER with an overpotential of 10.8 mV at -10 mA cm-2 and 4.6 times higher intrinsic activity over the state-of-the-art Pt/C. Moreover, the unusual Sabatier principle on HEA catalysts can be extended to other catalytic reactions.
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- Zhi Wen Chen
- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A4, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto; 200 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E5, Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada.
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto; 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada.
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- Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130022, China.
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Liu C, Xu G, Wang T. Theoretical Approach toward a Mild Condition Haber-Bosch Process on the Zeolite Catalyst with Confined Dual Active Sites. JACS AU 2023; 3:3374-3380. [PMID: 38155645 PMCID: PMC10751776 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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The Haber-Bosch (H-B) process is today's dominant technology for ammonia production, but achieving a mild reaction condition is still challenging. Herein, we combined density functional theory (DFT) calculations and microkinetic modeling (MKM) to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting the H-B process under ambient conditions on a zeolite catalyst with confined dual active sites. Our designed dual Mo(II) cation-anchored ferrierite [2Mo(II)-FER] catalyst shows an energy barrier of only 0.58 eV for N≡N bond breaking due to the enhanced π-back-donation. Meanwhile, the three hydrogen sources (BH, FMH, and NMH) within 2Mo(II)-FER greatly enrich the hydrogenation mechanisms of NHx species, resulting in barriers of <1.1 eV for NHx (x = 0-2) hydrogenations. This dual-site catalyst properly decouples the N2 dissociation and NHx hydrogenation steps, which elegantly circumvents the linear scaling relation between the N2 dissociation barrier and the nitrogen binding energy. It is worth noting that our MKM results show 4 orders of magnitude higher reaction rates on 2Mo(II)-FER than the stepped sites of the FCC Ru catalyst at low temperatures, paving a solid basis to conduct the H-B process at low temperatures. We believe that our strategy will provide crucial guidance for synthesizing state-of-the-art zeolite catalysts to achieve the near-ambient condition H-B process and other chemical reactions in heterogeneous catalysis.
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- Chunli Liu
- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province , China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province , China
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- Center
of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry,
School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, 600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang Province, China
- Institute
of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province , China
- Division
of Solar Energy Conversion and Catalysis at Westlake University, Zhejiang Baima Lake Laboratory, Hangzhou 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
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Chen X, Kastlunger G, Peterson AA. Fundamental Drivers of Electrochemical Barriers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:238003. [PMID: 38134804 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.238003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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We find that ion creation and destruction dominate the behavior of electrochemical reaction barriers, through grand-canonical electronic structure calculations of proton deposition on transition metal surfaces. We show that barriers respond to potential in a nonlinear manner and trace this to the continuous degree of electron transfer as an ion is created or destroyed. This explains both Marcus-like curvature and Hammond-like shifts. Across materials, we find the barrier energy to be driven primarily by the charge presented on the surface, which, in turn, is dictated by the native work function, a fundamentally different driving force than in nonelectrochemical systems.
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- Xi Chen
- School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Yao X, Huang L, Halpren E, Chen L, Chen Z, Singh CV. Structural Self-Regulation-Promoted NO Electroreduction on Single Atoms. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:26249-26256. [PMID: 37983260 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Simultaneously elevating loading and activity of single atoms (SAs) is desirable for SA-containing catalysts, including single-atom catalysts (SACs). However, the fast self-nucleation of SAs limits the loading, and the activity is confined by the adsorption-energy scaling relationships on monotonous SAs. Here, we theoretically design a novel type of SA-containing catalyst generated by two-step structural self-regulation. In the thermodynamic self-regulation step, divacancies in graphene spontaneously pull up SAs from transition metal supports (dv-g/TM; TM = fcc Co, hcp Co, Ni, Cu), leading to the expectably high loading of SAs. The subsequent kinetic self-regulation step involving an adsorbate-assisted and reversible vacancy migration dynamically alters coordination environments of SAs, helping circumvent the scaling relationships, and consequently, the as-designed dv-g/Ni can catalyze NO-to-NH3 conversion at a low limiting potential of -0.25 V vs RHE.
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- Xue Yao
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8, Canada
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Jung S, Pizzolitto C, Biasi P, Dauenhauer PJ, Birol T. Programmable catalysis by support polarization: elucidating and breaking scaling relations. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7795. [PMID: 38016999 PMCID: PMC10684597 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43641-0] [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: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023] Open
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The Sabatier principle and the scaling relations have been widely used to search for and screen new catalysts in the field of catalysis. However, these powerful tools can also serve as limitations of catalyst control and breakthrough. To overcome this challenge, this work proposes an efficient method of studying catalyst control by support polarization from first-principles. The results demonstrate that the properties of catalysts are determined by support polarization, irrespective of the magnitude of spontaneous polarization of support. The approach enables elucidating the scaling relations between binding energies at various polarization values of support. Moreover, we observe the breakdown of scaling relations for the surface controlled by support polarization. By studying the surface electronic structure and decomposing the induced charge into contributions from different atoms and orbitals, we identify the inherent structural property of the interface that leads to the breaking of the scaling relations. Specifically, the displacements of the underlying oxide support impose its symmetry on the catalyst, causing the scaling relations between different adsorption sites to break.
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- Seongjoo Jung
- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
- Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis (CPEC), University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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Xue F, Li Q, Lv M, Song Y, Yang T, Wang X, Li T, Ren Y, Ohara K, He Y, Li D, Li Q, Chen X, Lin K, Xing X. Atomic Three-Dimensional Investigations of Pd Nanocatalysts for Acetylene Semi-hydrogenation. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 38015199 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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Deciphering the three-dimensional (3D) insight into nanocatalyst surfaces at the atomic level is crucial to understanding catalytic reaction mechanisms and developing high-performance catalysts. Nevertheless, better understanding the inherent insufficiency of a long-range ordered lattice in nanocatalysts is a big challenge. In this work, we report the local structure of Pd nanocatalysts, which is beneficial for demonstrating the shape-structure-adsorption relationship in acetylene hydrogenation. The 5.27 nm spherical Pd catalyst (Pdsph) shows an ethylene selectivity of 88% at complete acetylene conversion, which is much higher than those of the Pd octahedron and Pd cube and superior to other reported monometallic Pd nanocatalysts so far. By virtue of the local structure revelation combined with the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) and reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) simulation, the atomic surface distribution of the unique compressed strain of Pd-Pd pairs in Pdsph was revealed. Density functional theory calculations verified the obvious weakening of the ethylene adsorption energy on account of the surface strain of Pdsph. It is the main factor to avoid the over-hydrogenation of acetylene. The present work, entailing shape-induced surface strain manipulation and atomic 3D insight, opens a new path to understand and optimize chemical activity and selectivity in the heterogeneous catalysis process.
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- Fan Xue
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, China
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China
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- Faculty of Materials for Energy, Shimane University, 1060, Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan
- Diffraction and Scattering Division, Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Solid State Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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Fei J, Zhang D, Wang T, Shi Y, Zhu J, Zhan T, Tian M, Lai J, Wang L. Precise Interstitial Built-In Electric Field Tuning for Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Inorg Chem 2023. [PMID: 38012066 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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The built-in electric field (BEF) has become an effective means of adjusting the electronic structure and hydrogen spillover to influence the adsorption of intermediates. However, the previously reported BEF cannot be tuned continuously and precisely. Herein, a series of nanocatalysts with interstitial BEF were successfully synthesized, and the effect of precisely tuned interstitial BEF on the intermediate's adsorption and hydrogen spillover was systematically investigated using changing the insertion of interstitial B. Three catalysts with different BEF strengths were obtained by changing the interstitial content (B0.22-Cu/NC, B0.30-Cu/NC, B0.41-Cu/NC), and it was demonstrated that B0.30-Cu/NC gave the best catalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs). The turnover frequency (TOF) value is shown to reach 0.36 s-1 at just -0.1 V vs. RHE, which is about 3 times that of Cu (0.12 s-1). For the HER, it is one of the best Cu-based catalysts reported to date (Table S3). Besides, when the catalyst was applied to the cathode of the PEM water electrolyzer, B0.30-Cu/NC exhibited long-time stability at a water-splitting current density of 500 mA cm-2. Density functional theory and in situ Raman spectroscopy suggest that a suitable interstitial BEF can not only optimize the intermediate's adsorption but also promote hydrogen spillover.
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- Jiawei Fei
- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Catalytic Conversion and Clean Energy in Universities of Shandong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- Jining Economic Development Zone, Scientific Green (Shandong) Environmental Technology Co. Ltd., Jining 272113, Shandong, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering, International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Eco-Chemical Engineering and Green Manufacturing, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
- Shandong Engineering Research Center for Marine Environment Corrosion and Safety Protection, College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, Shandong, P. R. China
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Zhang Q, Qian Z, Wei Y, Liu X, Zhang P, Gao Y, Qiao Y, Liu X. Molten Salt-Derived RuO 2 Nanocrystals and Nanowires: Unveiling Correlations of Morphology, Microstructure, and Electrocatalytic Performance. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:18257-18266. [PMID: 37867365 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Ruthenium oxide (RuO2), due to its comparable binding energy with *H and cost-effectiveness against Pt, has emerged as a pivotal electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In the present study, RuO2 nanocrystals (NCs) and nanowires (NWs) were obtained by a molten salt process and the morphology, crystal structure, and local bonding features were examined by using electron microscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. From the electrochemical measurement, both RuO2 NCs and NWs exhibit favorable stability and activity toward oxygen evolution reaction in an alkali medium, althought NCs exhibit higher activity, which is likely attributed to the larger surface area and the high local structural disorder. The theoretical calculation reveals that RuO2 NWs with a primary (110) orientation show a higher overpotential due to its d-band center's proximity to the Fermi level versus (101). The present work suggests that the molten salt process could be an efficient method for producing metal oxide catalysts with tailorable geometry and performances.
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- Qiang Zhang
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
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Bhattacharjee S, Ram S, Lee SC. Insights into Heterogeneous Catalysis on Surfaces with 3d Transition Metals: Spin-Dependent Chemisorption Models and Magnetic Field Effects. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:8755-8764. [PMID: 37738559 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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This Perspective provides an overview of recent developments in the field of 3d transition metal (TM) catalysts for different reactions, including oxygen-based reactions such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The spin moments of 3d TMs can be exploited to influence chemical reactions, and recent advances in this area, including the theory of chemisorption based on spin-dependent d-band centers and magnetic field effects, are discussed. The Perspective also explores the use of scaling relationships and surface magnetic moments in catalyst design as well as the effect of magnetism on chemisorption and vice versa. In addition, recent studies on the influence of a magnetic field on the ORR and the OER are presented, demonstrating the potential of ferromagnetic catalysts to enhance these reactions through spin polarization.
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- Indo-Korea Science and Technology Center (IKST), Bangalore 560064, India
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- Electronic Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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Feng C, Lv M, Shao J, Wu H, Zhou W, Qi S, Deng C, Chai X, Yang H, Hu Q, He C. Lattice Strain Engineering of Ni 2 P Enables Efficient Catalytic Hydrazine Oxidation-Assisted Hydrogen Production. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2305598. [PMID: 37433070 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202305598] [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: 06/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis provides new opportunities to enable energy-saving hydrogen production while solving the issue of hydrazine pollution. Here, the synthesis of compressively strained Ni2 P as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for boosting both the anodic hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR) and cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is reported. Different from a multistep synthetic method that induces lattice strain by creating core-shell structures, a facile strategy is developed to tune the strain of Ni2 P via dual-cation co-doping. The obtained Ni2 P with a compressive strain of -3.62% exhibits significantly enhanced activity for both the HzOR and HER than counterparts with tensile strain and without strain. Consequently, the optimized Ni2 P delivers current densities of 10 and 100 mA cm-2 at small cell voltages of 0.16 and 0.39 V for hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis, respectively. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the compressive strain promotes water dissociation and concurrently tunes the adsorption strength of hydrogen intermediates, thereby facilitating the HER process on Ni2 P. As for the HzOR, the compressive strain reduces the energy barrier of the potential-determining step for the dehydrogenation of *N2 H4 to *N2 H3 . Clearly, this work paves a facile pathway to the synthesis of lattice-strained electrocatalysts via the dual-cation co-doping.
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- Chao Feng
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, P. R. China
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Zhou S, Ma W, Anjum U, Kosari M, Xi S, Kozlov SM, Zeng HC. Strained few-layer MoS 2 with atomic copper and selectively exposed in-plane sulfur vacancies for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5872. [PMID: 37735457 PMCID: PMC10514200 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41362-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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In-plane sulfur vacancies (Sv) in molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) were newly unveiled for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, whereas edge Sv were found to facilitate methane formation. Thus, selective exposure and activation of basal plane is crucial for methanol synthesis. Here, we report a mesoporous silica-encapsulated MoS2 catalysts with fullerene-like structure and atomic copper (Cu/MoS2@SiO2). The main approach is based on a physically constrained topologic conversion of molybdenum dioxide (MoO2) to MoS2 within silica. The spherical curvature enables the generation of strain and Sv in inert basal plane. More importantly, fullerene-like structure of few-layer MoS2 can selectively expose in-plane Sv and reduce the exposure of edge Sv. After promotion by atomic copper, the resultant Cu/MoS2@SiO2 exhibits stable specific methanol yield of 6.11 molMeOH molMo-1 h-1 with methanol selectivity of 72.5% at 260 °C, much superior to its counterparts lacking the fullerene-like structure and copper decoration. The reaction mechanism and promoting role of copper are investigated by in-situ DRIFTS and in-situ XAS. Theoretical calculations demonstrate that the compressive strain facilitates Sv formation and CO2 hydrogenation, while tensile strain accelerates the regeneration of active sites, rationalizing the critical role of strain.
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- Shenghui Zhou
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
- The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore, 138602, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore, 627833, Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore, 627833, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore.
- The Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore, 1 CREATE Way, Singapore, 138602, Singapore.
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Hou Z, Cui C, Li Y, Gao Y, Zhu D, Gu Y, Pan G, Zhu Y, Zhang T. Lattice-Strain Engineering for Heterogenous Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2209876. [PMID: 36639855 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The energy efficiency of metal-air batteries and water-splitting techniques is severely constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and the high overpotential induced by the sluggish kinetics has become an uppermost scientific challenge. Numerous attempts are devoted to enabling high activity, selectivity, and stability via tailoring the surface physicochemical properties of nanocatalysts. Lattice-strain engineering as a cutting-edge method for tuning the electronic and geometric configuration of metal sites plays a pivotal role in regulating the interaction of catalytic surfaces with adsorbate molecules. By defining the d-band center as a descriptor of the structure-activity relationship, the individual contribution of strain effects within state-of-the-art electrocatalysts can be systematically elucidated in the OER optimization mechanism. In this review, the fundamentals of the OER and the advancements of strain-catalysts are showcased and the innovative trigger strategies are enumerated, with particular emphasis on the feedback mechanism between the precise regulation of lattice-strain and optimal activity. Subsequently, the modulation of electrocatalysts with various attributes is categorized and the impediments encountered in the practicalization of strained effect are discussed, ending with an outlook on future research directions for this burgeoning field.
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- Zhiqian Hou
- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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Adamji H, Nandy A, Kevlishvili I, Román-Leshkov Y, Kulik HJ. Computational Discovery of Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks for Methane-to-Methanol Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 37339429 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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The challenge of direct partial oxidation of methane to methanol has motivated the targeted search of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as a promising class of materials for this transformation because of their site-isolated metals with tunable ligand environments. Thousands of MOFs have been synthesized, yet relatively few have been screened for their promise in methane conversion. We developed a high-throughput virtual screening workflow that identifies MOFs from a diverse space of experimental MOFs that have not been studied for catalysis, yet are thermally stable, synthesizable, and have promising unsaturated metal sites for C-H activation via a terminal metal-oxo species. We carried out density functional theory calculations of the radical rebound mechanism for methane-to-methanol conversion on models of the secondary building units (SBUs) from 87 selected MOFs. While we showed that oxo formation favorability decreases with increasing 3d filling, consistent with prior work, previously observed scaling relations between oxo formation and hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) are disrupted by the greater diversity in our MOF set. Accordingly, we focused on Mn MOFs, which favor oxo intermediates without disfavoring HAT or leading to high methanol release energies─a key feature for methane hydroxylation activity. We identified three Mn MOFs comprising unsaturated Mn centers bound to weak-field carboxylate ligands in planar or bent geometries with promising methane-to-methanol kinetics and thermodynamics. The energetic spans of these MOFs are indicative of promising turnover frequencies for methane to methanol that warrant further experimental catalytic studies.
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- Husain Adamji
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Zhang S, Wu J, Zheng M, Jin X, Shen Z, Li Z, Wang Y, Wang Q, Wang X, Wei H, Zhang J, Wang P, Zhang S, Yu L, Dong L, Zhu Q, Zhang H, Lu J. Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3634. [PMID: 37337012 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39366-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia offers an efficient approach to reducing nitrate pollutants and a potential technology for low-temperature and low-pressure ammonia synthesis. However, the process is limited by multiple competing reactions and NO3- adsorption on cathode surfaces. Here, we report a Fe/Cu diatomic catalyst on holey nitrogen-doped graphene which exhibits high catalytic activities and selectivity for ammonia production. The catalyst enables a maximum ammonia Faradaic efficiency of 92.51% (-0.3 V(RHE)) and a high NH3 yield rate of 1.08 mmol h-1 mg-1 (at - 0.5 V(RHE)). Computational and theoretical analysis reveals that a relatively strong interaction between NO3- and Fe/Cu promotes the adsorption and discharge of NO3- anions. Nitrogen-oxygen bonds are also shown to be weakened due to the existence of hetero-atomic dual sites which lowers the overall reaction barriers. The dual-site and hetero-atom strategy in this work provides a flexible design for further catalyst development and expands the electrocatalytic techniques for nitrate reduction and ammonia synthesis.
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- Shuo Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Centre for Clean Environment and Energy and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy & State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian, 116023, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Centre for Clean Environment and Energy and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
- School of Chemical Engineering, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
- School of Chemical Engineering, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19(A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, PR China.
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 310027, China.
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Kong X, Zhao J, Xu Z, Wang Z, Wu Y, Shi Y, Li H, Ma C, Zeng J, Geng Z. Dynamic Metal-Ligand Coordination Boosts CO 2 Electroreduction. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 37312284 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The interfacial structure of heterogeneous catalysts determines the reaction rate by adjusting the adsorption behavior of reaction intermediates. Unfortunately, the catalytic performance of conventionally static active sites has always been limited by the adsorbate linear scaling relationship. Herein, we develop a triazole-modified Ag crystal (Ag crystal-triazole) with dynamic and reversible interfacial structures to break such a relationship for boosting the catalytic activity of CO2 electroreduction into CO. On the basis of surface science measurements and theoretical calculations, we demonstrated the dynamic transformation between adsorbed triazole and adsorbed triazolyl on the Ag(111) facet induced by metal-ligand conjugation. During CO2 electroreduction, Ag crystal-triazole with the dynamically reversible transformation of ligands exhibited a faradic efficiency for CO of 98% with a partial current density for CO as high as -802.5 mA cm-2. The dynamic metal-ligand coordination not only reduced the activation barriers of CO2 protonation but also switched the rate-determining step from CO2 protonation to the breakage of C-OH in the adsorbed COOH intermediate. This work provided an atomic-level insight into the interfacial engineering of the heterogeneous catalysts toward highly efficient CO2 electroreduction.
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- Xiangdong Kong
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan, Anhui 243002, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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Xu W, Shu Y, Xu M, Xie J, Li Y, Dong H. Unexpected electro-catalytic activity of the CO reduction reaction on Cr-embedded poly-phthalocyanine realized by strain engineering: a computational study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:12872-12881. [PMID: 37165891 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00861d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The electrochemical conversion of carbon monoxide (CO) into value-added products is highly promising for carbon utilization and CO removal. Based on previous theoretical studies, we computationally explored the effect of strain engineering on electrocatalysis of the CO reduction reaction (CORR) by two-dimensional (2D) transition metal embedded polyphthalocyanines (MPPcs). By calculating the adsorption energy of CO and the free energies of key intermediates on the MPPcs under uniaxial and biaxial strains, it was revealed that only CrPPc under biaxial strain has the potential to exhibit significant enhancement of the catalytic performance. The free energy diagrams of the CORR catalyzed by CrPPc were plotted under specific biaxial strains, where both the optimal reaction pathway and rate-determining step are found to be evidently changed. What's more, the 5% compressive strain imposed on CrPPc results in an ultra-low limiting potential (UL = -0.09 V) with high selectivity on CH4 as the final product, indicating unexpected electro-catalytic activity. Our study clearly elucidates that moderate strain could greatly enhance the electrocatalytic performance of 2D materials in the CORR.
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- Wenzhen Xu
- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Ringe S. The importance of a charge transfer descriptor for screening potential CO 2 reduction electrocatalysts. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2598. [PMID: 37147278 PMCID: PMC10162986 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37929-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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It has been over twenty years since the linear scaling of reaction intermediate adsorption energies started to coin the fields of heterogeneous and electrocatalysis as a blessing and a curse at the same time. It has established the possibility to construct activity volcano plots as a function of a single or two readily accessible adsorption energies as descriptors, but also limited the maximal catalytic conversion rate. In this work, it is found that these established adsorption energy-based descriptor spaces are not applicable to electrochemistry, because they are lacking an important additional dimension, the potential of zero charge. This extra dimension arises from the interaction of the electric double layer with reaction intermediates which does not scale with adsorption energies. At the example of the electrochemical reduction of CO2 it is shown that the addition of this descriptor breaks the scaling relations, opening up a huge chemical space that is readily accessible via potential of zero charge-based material design. The potential of zero charge also explains product selectivity trends of electrochemical CO2 reduction in close agreement with reported experimental data highlighting its importance for electrocatalyst design.
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- Stefan Ringe
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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Hu H, Zhang P, Xiao BB, Mi JL. Substrate Strain Engineering of Single-Atomic Sn-N 4 Sites Embedded in Various Carbon Matrixes for Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:23170-23184. [PMID: 37141049 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c02232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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It is still a great challenge to design and synthesize high-efficiency and low-cost single-atom catalysts (SACs) as promising bifunctional electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, theoretical insights into Sn-N4 embedded carbon nanotubes, graphene quantum dots, and graphene nanosheets (denoted as Sn-N4-CNTs, Sn-N4-GQDs, and Sn-N4-Gra, respectively) for the ORR/OER are systematically provided. These results show that the protruding Sn atom creates a Sn-N4 pyramid and induces varied strain transfer between Sn-N4 and different carbon substrates prior to adsorption of O intermediates, resulting in the opposite response of the adsorption strengths of O intermediates to the substrate curvature of Sn-N4-CNTs and Sn-N4-GQDs. The torsional strain induced by OH* and OOH* on the Sn atom of Sn-N4-CNTs breaks the scaling relations between the adsorption strengths of O intermediates. Consequently, Sn-N4-CNTs with suitable curvature achieve outstanding ORR performance with very low overpotentials (0.28 V). Furthermore, the increase of curvature boosts the OER activity of Sn-N4-CNTs. For Sn-N4-GQDs, high curvature contributes to promoted OER activity but reduced ORR activity. The electronic interactions reveal the electron transfer from the s/p-bands of Sn to the half-filled β states of the frontier orbitals of O intermediates.
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- Hao Hu
- Institute for Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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- Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
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- Institute for Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Cepitis R, Kongi N, Rossmeisl J, Ivaništšev V. Surface Curvature Effect on Dual-Atom Site Oxygen Electrocatalysis. ACS ENERGY LETTERS 2023; 8:1330-1335. [PMID: 36937790 PMCID: PMC10013177 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Improved oxygen electrocatalysis is crucial for the ever-growing energy demand. Metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) materials are promising candidates for catalysts. Their activity is tunable via varying electronic and geometric properties, such as porosity. Because of the difficulty in modeling porosity, M-N-Cs with variable surface curvature remained largely unexplored. In this work, we developed a realistic in-pore dual-atom site M-N-C model and applied density functional theory to investigate the surface curvature effect on oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. We show that surface curving tailors both scaling relations and energy barriers. Thus, we predict that adjusting the surface curvature can improve the catalytic activity toward mono- and bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis.
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- Ritums Cepitis
- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14a, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute
of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14a, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Zhou Y, Lu R, Tao X, Qiu Z, Chen G, Yang J, Zhao Y, Feng X, Müllen K. Boosting Oxygen Electrocatalytic Activity of Fe-N-C Catalysts by Phosphorus Incorporation. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:3647-3655. [PMID: 36744313 PMCID: PMC9936543 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Nitrogen-doped graphitic carbon materials hosting single-atom iron (Fe-N-C) are major non-precious metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The nitrogen-coordinated Fe sites are described as the first coordination sphere. As opposed to the good performance in ORR, that in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is extremely poor due to the sluggish O-O coupling process, thus hampering the practical applications of rechargeable zinc (Zn)-air batteries. Herein, we succeed in boosting the OER activity of Fe-N-C by additionally incorporating phosphorus atoms into the second coordination sphere, here denoted as P/Fe-N-C. The resulting material exhibits excellent OER activity in 0.1 M KOH with an overpotential as low as 304 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2. Even more importantly, they exhibit a remarkably small ORR/OER potential gap of 0.63 V. Theoretical calculations using first-principles density functional theory suggest that the phosphorus enhances the electrocatalytic activity by balancing the *OOH/*O adsorption at the FeN4 sites. When used as an air cathode in a rechargeable Zn-air battery, P/Fe-N-C delivers a charge-discharge performance with a high peak power density of 269 mW cm-2, highlighting its role as the state-of-the-art bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst.
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- Yazhou Zhou
- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany,School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu
University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, International
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany,School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu
University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu, China
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany,School of
Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and
Technology, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Shenzhen 518172, Guangdong, China
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- Center
for Advancing Electronics Dresden (Cfaed) and Faculty of Chemistry
and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität
Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany,
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- School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu
University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, International
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
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- Center
for Advancing Electronics Dresden (Cfaed) and Faculty of Chemistry
and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität
Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany,Max
Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, Halle (Saale) D-06120, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany,
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Wang H, Zhang H, Huang Y, Wang H, Ozden A, Yao K, Li H, Guo Q, Liu Y, Vomiero A, Wang Y, Qian Z, Li J, Wang Z, Sun X, Liang H. Strain in Copper/Ceria Heterostructure Promotes Electrosynthesis of Multicarbon Products. ACS NANO 2023; 17:346-354. [PMID: 36574462 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c08453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Elastic strains in metallic catalysts induce enhanced selectivity for carbon dioxide reduction (CO2R) toward valuable multicarbon (C2+) products. However, under working conditions, the structure of catalysts inevitably undergoes reconstruction, hardly retaining the initial strain. Herein, we present a metal/metal oxide synthetic strategy to introduce and maintain the tensile strain in a copper/ceria heterostructure, enabled by the presence of a thin interface layer of Cu2O/CeO2. The tensile strain in the copper domain and deficient electron environment around interfacial Cu sites resulted in strengthened adsorption of carbonaceous intermediates and promoted *CO dimerization. The strain effect in the copper/ceria heterostructure leads to an improved C2+ selectivity with a maximum Faradaic efficiency of 76.4% and a half-cell power conversion efficiency of 49.1%. The fundamental insights gained from this system can facilitate the rational design of heterostructure catalysts for CO2R.
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- Haibin Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Low and Medium Grade Energy, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Low and Medium Grade Energy, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8, Canada
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
- State Key Lab of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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- Division of Materials Science, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology 97187 Luleå, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca' Foscari University of Venice 30172 Venezia Mestre, Italy
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education Shandong University, Jinan 250061, P. R. China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Chemical Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Low and Medium Grade Energy, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China
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Xu G, Cai C, Zhao W, Liu Y, Wang T. Rational design of catalysts with earth‐abundant elements. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Gaomou Xu
- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science Westlake University Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science Westlake University Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science Westlake University Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science Westlake University Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Center of Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels and Department of Chemistry, School of Science Westlake University Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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Adsorption energy (AE) of reactive intermediate is currently the most important descriptor for electrochemical reactions (e.g., water electrolysis, hydrogen fuel cell, electrochemical nitrogen fixation, electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, etc.), which can bridge the gap between catalyst's structure and activity. Tracing the history and evolution of AE can help to understand electrocatalysis and design optimal electrocatalysts. Focusing on oxygen electrocatalysis, this review aims to provide a comprehensive introduction on how AE is selected as the activity descriptor, the intrinsic and empirical relationships related to AE, how AE links the structure and electrocatalytic performance, the approaches to obtain AE, the strategies to improve catalytic activity by modulating AE, the extrinsic influences on AE from the environment, and the methods in circumventing linear scaling relations of AE. An outlook is provided at the end with emphasis on possible future investigation related to the obstacles existing between adsorption energy and electrocatalytic performance.
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- Junming Zhang
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. China.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore
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Price CC, Singh A, Frey NC, Shenoy VB. Efficient catalyst screening using graph neural networks to predict strain effects on adsorption energy. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabq5944. [PMID: 36417537 PMCID: PMC9683700 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq5944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Small-molecule adsorption energies correlate with energy barriers of catalyzed intermediate reaction steps, determining the dominant microkinetic mechanism. Straining the catalyst can alter adsorption energies and break scaling relationships that inhibit reaction engineering, but identifying desirable strain patterns using density functional theory is intractable because of the high-dimensional search space. We train a graph neural network to predict the adsorption energy response of a catalyst/adsorbate system under a proposed surface strain pattern. The training data are generated by randomly straining and relaxing Cu-based binary alloy catalyst complexes taken from the Open Catalyst Project. The trained model successfully predicts the adsorption energy response for 85% of strains in unseen test data, outperforming ensemble linear baselines. Using ammonia synthesis as an example, we identify Cu-S alloy catalysts as promising candidates for strain engineering. Our approach can locate strain patterns that break adsorption energy scaling relations to improve catalyst performance.
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- Christopher C. Price
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA 02421, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Cui C, Zhang H, Cheng R, Huang B, Luo Z. On the Nature of Three-Atom Metal Cluster Catalysis for N 2 Reduction to Ammonia. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Chaonan Cui
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China
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Ahn H, Ahn H, An J, Kim H, Hong JW, Han SW. Role of Surface Strain at Nanocrystalline Pt{110} Facets in Oxygen Reduction Catalysis. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:9115-9121. [PMID: 36350225 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We have developed a synthesis method of rhombic dodecahedral Pd@Pt core-shell nanocrystals bound exclusively by {110} facets with controlled numbers of Pt atomic layers to study the surface strain-catalytic activity relationship of Pt{110} facets. Through control over growth kinetics, the epitaxial and conformal overgrowth of Pt shells on the {110} facets of rhombic dodecahedral Pd nanocrystals could be achieved. Notably, the electrocatalytic activity of the Pd@Pt nanocrystals toward oxygen reduction reaction decreased as their Pt shells became thinner and thus more in-plane compressive surface strain was applied, which is in sharp contrast to previous reports on Pt-based catalysts. Density functional theory calculations revealed that the characteristic strain-activity relationship of Pt{110} facets is the result of the counteraction of out-of-plane surface strain against the applied in-plane surface strain, which can effectively impose a tensile environment on the surface atoms of the Pd@Pt nanocrystals under the compressive in-plane strain.
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- Hojin Ahn
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44776, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea
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Gao J, Liu Y, Liu B, Huang KW. Progress of Heterogeneous Iridium-Based Water Oxidation Catalysts. ACS NANO 2022; 16:17761-17777. [PMID: 36355040 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c08519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The water oxidation reaction (or oxygen evolution reaction, OER) plays a critical role in green hydrogen production via water splitting, electrochemical CO2 reduction, and nitrogen fixation. The four-electron and four-proton transfer OER process involves multiple reaction intermediates and elementary steps that lead to sluggish kinetics; therefore, a high overpotential is necessary to drive the reaction. Among the different water-splitting electrolyzers, the proton exchange membrane type electrolyzer has greater advantages, but its anode catalysts are limited to iridium-based materials. The iridium catalyst has been extensively studied in recent years due to its balanced activity and stability for acidic OER, and many exciting signs of progress have been made. In this review, the surface and bulk Pourbaix diagrams of iridium species in an aqueous solution are introduced. The iridium-based catalysts, including metallic or oxides, amorphous or crystalline, single crystals, atomically dispersed or nanostructured, and iridium compounds for OER, are then elaborated. The latest progress of active sites, reaction intermediates, reaction kinetics, and elementary steps is summarized. Finally, future research directions regarding iridium catalysts for acidic OER are discussed.
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- Jiajian Gao
- Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment, 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore627833
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- Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment, 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore627833
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore637459
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- Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment, 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore627833
- KAUST Catalysis Center and Division of Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore138634
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Chen ZW, Gariepy Z, Chen L, Yao X, Anand A, Liu SJ, Tetsassi Feugmo CG, Tamblyn I, Singh CV. Machine-Learning-Driven High-Entropy Alloy Catalyst Discovery to Circumvent the Scaling Relation for CO 2 Reduction Reaction. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c03675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Zhi Wen Chen
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Suite 140, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8, Canada
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Deshmukh MA, Park SJ, Thorat HN, Bodkhe GA, Ramanavicius A, Ramanavicius S, Shirsat MD, Ha TJ. Advanced Energy Materials: Current Trends and Challenges in Electro- and Photo-Catalysts for H2O Splitting. J IND ENG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2022.11.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Yue X, Cheng L, Li F, Fan J, Xiang Q. Highly Strained Bi‐MOF on Bismuth Oxyhalide Support with Tailored Intermediate Adsorption/Desorption Capability for Robust CO
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Photoreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202208414. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202208414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Xiaoyang Yue
- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices School of Electronic Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 P. R. China
- Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Huzhou 313001 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices School of Electronic Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 P. R. China
- Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Huzhou 313001 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices School of Electronic Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 P. R. China
- Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Huzhou 313001 P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450000 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices School of Electronic Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 610054 P. R. China
- Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Huzhou 313001 P. R. China
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Tailoring of electrocatalyst interactions at interfacial level to benchmark the oxygen reduction reaction. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Hydrogen Activation by C
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2. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202201854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Mondal M, Ganapathy R. Direct Measurements of Surface Strain-Mediated Lateral Interactions between Adsorbates in Colloidal Heteroepitaxy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:088003. [PMID: 36053694 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.088003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Surface strain can alter the dynamics of adsorbates, and often, the adsorbates themselves induce and interact via their surface strain fields. In epitaxy, such strain-mediated effects get further compounded when a misfit strain exists due to lattice mismatch between the growing film and substrate. Here, we carry out particle-resolved imaging of heteroepitaxial growth of multilayer colloidal films where the particles interact via a short-range attraction. Surprisingly, although the misfit strain relaxed systematically with film thickness, the adcolloid diffusivity was nonmonotonic. We show that this nonmonotonicity stems from the competition between the spatial extent of self-induced in-layer strain and the short interaction range. Importantly, we provide direct evidence for long-ranged strain-mediated interactions between adsorbates and show that it alters the growing film's morphology.
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- Manodeep Mondal
- Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore-560064, India
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- International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore-560064, India
- School of Advanced Materials (SAMat), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore-560064, India
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Yue X, Cheng L, Li F, Fan J, Xiang Q. Highly Strained Bi‐MOF on Bismuth Oxyhalide Support with Tailored Intermediate Adsorption/Desorption Capability for Robust CO2 Photoreduction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202208414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Xiaoyang Yue
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices CHINA
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices CHINA
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices CHINA
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- Zhengzhou University School of Materials Science and Engineering CHINA
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices Chengdu 610054, China 610054 Chengdu CHINA
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- Andrew J. Medford
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark
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- School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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