A Review of Surface Reconstruction and Transformation of 3d Transition‐Metal (oxy)Hydroxides and Spinel‐Type Oxides during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction DOI Creative Commons
Biao He, Fan Bai, Priya Jain

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Small, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

Developing efficient and sustainable electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial advancing energy conversion storage technologies. 3d transition-metal (oxy)hydroxides spinel-type oxides have emerged as promising candidates due to their structural flexibility, redox activity, abundance in earth's crust. However, OER performance can be changed dynamically during surface reconstruction transformation. Essentially, multiple elementary processes occur simultaneously, whereby electrocatalyst surfaces undergo substantial changes OER. A better understanding of these how they affect electrocatalytic essential design. This review aims critically assess processes, including oxidation, amorphization, transformation, cation dissolution, redeposition, facet electrolyte effects on performance. The begins with an overview electrocatalysts' structure, couples, common issues associated electrochemical measurements spinels, followed by recent advancements involved challenges new perspectives are presented at last, potentially shedding light rational design next-generation applications.

Language: Английский

Facet Engineering of Advanced Electrocatalysts Toward Hydrogen/Oxygen Evolution Reactions DOI Creative Commons
Changshui Wang, Qian Zhang, Bing Yan

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Nano-Micro Letters, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Feb. 16, 2023

The electrocatalytic water splitting technology can generate high-purity hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide, which is in favor of relieving environmental pollution and energy crisis achieving neutrality. Electrocatalysts effectively reduce the reaction barrier increase efficiency. Facet engineering considered as a promising strategy controlling ratio desired crystal planes on surface. Owing to anisotropy, with different orientations usually feature facet-dependent physical chemical properties, leading differences adsorption energies oxygen or intermediates, thus exhibit varied activity toward evolution (HER) (OER). In this review, brief introduction basic concepts, fundamental understanding mechanisms well key evaluating parameters for both HER OER are provided. formation facets comprehensively overviewed aiming give scientific theory guides realize dominant planes. Subsequently, three strategies selective capping agent, etching coordination modulation tune summarized. Then, we present an overview significant contributions facet-engineered catalysts HER, OER, overall splitting. particular, highlight that density functional calculations play indispensable role unveiling structure–activity correlation between plane catalytic activity. Finally, remaining challenges provided future prospects designing advanced electrocatalysts discussed.

Language: Английский

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Design Principles of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: From Targeted Structures to Active Sites DOI Open Access
Fei Jiang, Yichuan Li, Yuan Pan

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Advanced Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 36(7)

Published: Sept. 14, 2023

Hydrogen production from electrolytic water electrolysis is considered a viable method for hydrogen with significant social value due to its clean and pollution-free nature, high efficiency, purity, but the anode oxygen evolution reaction (OER) process complex kinetically slow. Single-atom catalysts (SACs) 100% atom utilization homogeneous active sites often exhibit catalytic activity are expected be extensively applied. The performance of OER can further improved by precise regulation structure through electronic effects, coordination environment, heteroatomic doping, so on. In this review, mechanisms under different conditions introduced, latest research progress SACs in field systematically summarized, then effects various structural strategies on discussed, principles ideas design proposed. end, outstanding issues current challenges summarized.

Language: Английский

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Coupled and decoupled electrochemical water splitting for boosting hydrogen evolution: A review and perspective DOI
Zhao Li,

Limei Sun,

Yao Zhang

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Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 510, P. 215837 - 215837

Published: April 9, 2024

Language: Английский

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Interfacial built-in electric-field for boosting energy conversion electrocatalysis DOI Open Access
Hui Xu, Jun-Ru Li, Xianxu Chu

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Nanoscale Horizons, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8(4), P. 441 - 452

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

A critical review of built-in electric fields for the applications in electrocatalytic reactions is organized by focusing on fundamental concepts, modification strategies, and positive influences promotion catalytic performance.

Language: Английский

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Etched High-Entropy Prussian Blue Analogues as Trifunctional Catalysts for Water, Ethanol, and Urea Electrooxidation DOI
Hui Xu,

Lida Yang,

Kun Wang

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Inorganic Chemistry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 62(28), P. 11271 - 11277

Published: June 29, 2023

The introduction of high-entropy and high specific surface area into Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) has yet to create interest in the field electrocatalytic small-molecule oxidation reactions. Herein, we synthesize a novel class (HE) PBAs with via simple NH3·H2O-etching strategy systematically investigate performance HE-PBA toward water, ethanol, urea Importantly, NH3·H2O-etched (denoted as HE-PBA-e) demonstrated enhanced compared pristine HE-PBA, reaching 10 mA cm-2 potentials 1.56, 1.41, 1.37 V for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), ethanol (EOR), (UOR), respectively. Deep characterizations suggest that NH3·H2O etching treatment not only creates rich nanopores enlarge boosts mass transport electron transfer but also facilitates formation high-valence metal oxides improve intrinsic activity. This demonstration how increasing state metals will serve governing principle rational design more advanced HE-PBAs electrooxidation small molecules.

Language: Английский

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Homogeneous NiMoO4–Co(OH)2 bifunctional heterostructures for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution and urea oxidation reaction DOI
Xinhua Lü, Tingjian Wang, Ming Cao

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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 48(89), P. 34740 - 34749

Published: June 10, 2023

Language: Английский

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Synergistically engineering of vacancy and doping in thiospinel to boost electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in alkaline water and seawater DOI
Hui Xu, Kun Wang, Lei Jin

et al.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 650, P. 1500 - 1508

Published: July 19, 2023

Language: Английский

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Microwave solvothermal synthesis of Component-Tunable High-Entropy oxides as High-Efficient and stable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction DOI
Dan Wang,

Chanqin Duan,

Huan He

et al.

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 646, P. 89 - 97

Published: May 10, 2023

Language: Английский

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Dual-cation doping precisely reducing the energy barrier of the rate-determining step for promoting oxygen-evolving activity DOI
Hui Xu, Cheng Wang,

Bingji Huang

et al.

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(7), P. 2067 - 2074

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

A sunflower-like Ir, Fe-codoped Co(OH) 2 catalyst assembled by nanosheets is designed for boosting electrocatalytic OER, where dual-cation doping can significantly decrease the energy barrier of rate-determining step OER.

Language: Английский

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Plasmon-Mediated Oxidase-like Activity on Ag@ZnS Heterostructured Hollow Nanowires for Rapid Visual Detection of Nitrite DOI
Lin Tian, Zijun Huang, Xinhua Lü

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Inorganic Chemistry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 62(4), P. 1659 - 1666

Published: Jan. 17, 2023

Rational design of fast and sensitive determination nitrite (NO2-) from a complicated actual sample overtakes crucial role in constructing high-efficiency sensing platform. Herein, visual NO2- platform with outstanding selectivity, sensitivity, stability based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-enhanced oxidase-like activity has been proposed. Benefiting the intrinsic photocatalytic limited light penetration ZnS, ZnS decorated Ag nanowires (Ag@ZnS) is determined. It demonstrated that electrons are generated efficiently then transferred into hot help localized SPR excitation, thus greatly oxidating colorless 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to produce dark blue oxidized TMB (oxTMB). When added reaction system, oxTMB will selectively react generate diazotized oxTMB, leading color change green subsequently yellow. Owing specific recognition between recovery catalytic induced an enhanced colorimetric test wider linear range for determination, ultralow detection limit 0.1 μM, excellent practicability application real samples. This plasmon-enhanced not only provides smart approach realize assay high sensitivity simplicity but also modulates activities.

Language: Английский

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