Advanced Functional Materials,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 21, 2025
Abstract
The
massive
production
of
cost‐effective
and
highly‐efficient
electrode
materials
is
crucial
for
industrial
CO
2
electroconversion.
Herein,
this
work
breaks
away
from
conventional
approaches
by
directly
constructing
an
integrated
single‐molecule
catalytic
(7F‐CoPc@GF)
at
the
meter
scale,
through
integration
π‐extended
macrocyclic
structures
into
commercial
carbon‐based
collectors
with
strong
interfacial
interactions.
This
innovative
method
reshapes
traditional
design
using
a
liquid‐phase
self‐adaptive
anchoring
strategy,
eliminating
need
conductive
adducts
binders.
In
addition,
introducing
perfluoroalkyl
chain,
built‐in
hydrophobic
microenvironment
in
heterogenized
macrocycles
optimizes
electron
migration
water
interaction
around
active
sites,
suppressing
hydrogen
evolution
reaction
thereby
enhancing
pH‐universal
electroreduction
across
broad
potential
range.
Significantly,
mechanistic
study
reveals
that
not
only
enhances
effective
collisions
between
sites
reactants
but
also
facilitates
immediate
removal
products
surface.
Further
development
dual
value‐added
electrolysis
systems,
incorporating
waste
gas
treatment,
highlights
versatility
extensibility
meter‐scale
material.
These
findings
offer
promising
methodology
rational
stable,
binder‐free,
large‐size
electrodes,
advancing
sustainable
scale.
Advanced Materials,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 9, 2024
Abstract
Electrochemical
CO
2
reduction
reaction
(CO
RR)
powered
by
renewable
energy
provides
a
promising
route
to
conversion
and
utilization.
However,
the
widely
used
neutral/alkaline
electrolyte
consumes
large
amount
of
produce
(bi)carbonate
byproducts,
leading
significant
challenges
at
device
level,
thereby
impeding
further
deployment
this
reaction.
Conducting
RR
in
acidic
electrolytes
offers
solution
address
“carbonate
issue”;
however,
it
presents
inherent
difficulties
due
competitive
hydrogen
evolution
reaction,
necessitating
concerted
efforts
toward
advanced
catalyst
electrode
designs
achieve
high
selectivity
activity.
This
review
encompasses
recent
developments
RR,
from
mechanism
elucidation
design
engineering.
begins
discussing
mechanistic
understanding
pathway,
laying
foundation
for
RR.
Subsequently,
an
in‐depth
analysis
advancements
catalysts
is
provided,
highlighting
heterogeneous
catalysts,
surface
immobilized
molecular
enhancement.
Furthermore,
progress
made
device‐level
applications
summarized,
aiming
develop
high‐performance
systems.
Finally,
existing
future
directions
are
outlined,
emphasizing
need
improved
selectivity,
activity,
stability,
scalability.
Advanced Functional Materials,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
34(46)
Published: Aug. 9, 2024
Abstract
Carbon
materials
are
of
great
significance
in
state‐of‐the‐art
electrochemical
CO
2
reduction
(ECR)
as
key
components
such
electrocatalysts,
gas
diffusion
electrodes,
and
current
collectors.
Notably,
dimensionalities
carbons
related
manipulations
play
vital
roles
boosting
ECR
performance,
e.g.,
mass/charge
transfer
dynamics,
exposure
active
sites,
reaction
space,
product's
Faradaic
efficiency/selectivity,
durability.
Here,
recent
endeavors
dimensionality
engineering
toward
advanced
carbon‐based
for
is
first
summarized,
including
pure
(e.g.,
carbon
nanotube
graphene)
composites,
highlight
the
dimensionality‐dependent
properties
performance.
Various
strategies
referring
to
modulation
integration
have
been
top‐down,
bottom‐up,
soft
chemical
approaches.
Design
principles
dimensionality‐varied
elaborated,
impacts
surface
chemistry
functional
group,
wettability,
electronic
structure)
on
kinetics
product‐targeted
mechanisms
also
scrutinized.
Some
insights
into
how
manipulation
elevates
performance
acceleration,
kinetics,
product
selectivity
provided.
At
last,
a
perspective
challenges
future
development
discussed.
This
review
aims
at
providing
guidance
customizable
construction
with
dependence
green
energy‐saving
electrosynthesis
systems.
Advanced Energy Materials,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 2, 2025
Abstract
Electrocatalytic
carbon
dioxide
reduction
(CO
2
RR)
holds
great
promise
for
capture
and
utilization.
In
acidic
media,
CO
RR
enables
efficient
conversion,
but
with
low
selectivity
due
to
the
competitive
hydrogen
evolution
reaction
(HER)
catalyst
corrosion.
Herein,
conductive
polymer
polypyrrole
(PPy)
coated
Ag
nanoparticles
(NPs)
catalysts
(Ag@PPy)
different
thicknesses
are
designed
synthesized,
which
could
create
a
hydrophobic
environment
that
reduces
accessibility
of
H
O
NPs
thereby
inhibiting
HER.
The
coating
PPy
layer
also
protects
from
corrosion
improves
stability
system.
Among
them,
Ag@PPy‐2
appropriate
thickness
showed
up
91.7%
electrocatalytic
high
durability
in
electrolyte
at
−300
mA
cm
−2
.
Density
functional
theory
(DFT)
calculation
shows
not
only
inhibit
HER,
reduce
energy
barrier,
improve
efficiency
CO.
This
study
may
provide
some
new
ideas
design
advanced
selective
by
local
microenvironmental
engineering.
ACS Nano,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 26, 2025
Soft
robots
with
real-time
volatile
organic
compound
(VOC)
perceptivity
are
promising
for
dynamic
hazard
detection.
However,
reconciling
VOC-responsive
actuation
an
autonomous
perception
remains
challenging.
Inspired
by
Victoria
amazonica,
which
blooms
and
closes
synchronous
color
change
under
environmental
stimulations,
we
developed
a
solvatophore-induced
solvatochromic-piezoelectric
material
synthesizing
solvatochromic
molecule-modified
palygorskite-enhanced
polyvinylidene
difluoride
realized
all-fiber
actuator
piezoelectric
properties
cooperative
visual
electrical
of
organics.
Under
VOCs,
the
exhibits
bidirectional
bending,
obvious
stable
change,
characteristic
output,
allowing
identification
type
concentration
VOC.
The
demonstrates
large
bending
curvature
4.63
cm-1,
ultrafast
response
speed
up
to
4.36
cm-1
s-1,
excellent
stability
1500
cycles
without
fatigue,
VOC-induced
output
reflecting
conditions.
sensing,
manipulation,
were
demonstrated
as
applications.
VOC-triggered
soft
robot
motion
capable
autonomously
perceiving
responding
This
work
presents
widely
applicable
interactive
visual-electronic
VOC
detection
strategy
safety,
health,
protection,
could
also
inspire
exploitation
high-performance
responsive
fiber
materials.
ACS Nano,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 12, 2025
To
surmount
the
shortcomings
of
powder-based
catalysts
and
small
electrode
sizes,
development
meter-scale
integrated
materials
is
essential
for
practical
electrocatalytic
applications,
which
requires
fine
control
over
effective
surface
grafting
catalytic
active
sites
on
large-size
electrodes
as
well
addressing
challenge
balancing
cost-effective
large-scale
manufacturing
with
highly
stable
operation.
Herein,
we
report
a
low-cost,
facile,
scalable
method
directly
constructing
single-molecule-integrated
using
commercially
available,
flexible,
size-tailored
conductive
carbon
textiles
(e.g.,
graphite
felt)
well-defined
planar
conjugated
molecules
metallophthalocyanines)
via
heterostacking
steered
cross-scale
heterointerfacial
assembly.
This
universal
unlocks
limitations
traditional
approaches
that
involve
integrating
catalysts,
particles,
binders
Nafion),
supported
paper)
through
multiple
processing
steps
typically
result
in
centimeter-level
electrodes.
Meaningfully,
our
enables
precise
size,
composition,
microenvironment,
structure
to
match
various
environments.
As
proof
concept,
an
thiophene-gilded
cobalt
phthalocyanine
demonstrates
outstanding
activity
stability
CO2
electroconversion
alkaline,
neutral,
acidic
media
under
industrially
relevant
current
densities,
even
flowing
paired-electrolysis
system.
study
provides
comprehensive
scientific
data
engineering
guidance
systematic
design
scalable,
binder-free
electrodes,
thereby
promising
drive
sustainable
energy-efficient
electrolysis
industrial
scene.
