Advanced Sustainable Systems
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2021
·Vol. 6
·期 1
·2100343
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IF 6.271
Yinghui Li,Yuanju Qu,Chaocheng Liu,Jiedong Cui,Ke Xu,Yang Li,Haoyu Shen,Zhouguang Lu,Hui Pan,Tao Xu,Detao Liu
Bifunctional oxygen reduction/oxidation reaction (ORR/OER) electrocatalysts derived from biomass are one of the most valuable materials in terms of sustainability, ecological economy and industrial manufacturing, and are emerging as a desired alternative to the commercial Pt/C and IrO 2 catalysts. This work demonstrates the processing of agricultural cornstalk waste of cornstalks into stable bifunctional ORR/OER catalysts with high-performance by a simple and cost-effective strategy. Rich hydrophilic active groups (e.g., hydroxyl groups) in the hierarchical porous structures of the native cornstalks enable the sufficient facile combination with transition metals (e.g., Co, Fe, Zn) and heteroatoms (e.g., B, N) from soluble Co(NO 3 ) 2 , ZnCl 2 , H 3 BO 3 , NH 4 Cl in a hydrothermal reaction. The pyrolytic evaporation of Zn 2+ in a high-temperature carbonization process facilitates the generation of abundant micropores and mesopores to increase specific surface areas (941.44 m 2 g −1 ) and also hinders aggregation between neighboring transition metals. The synergistic effects of N, B, Fe and Co doping in hierarchical porous biochar-structures contributes to outstanding bifunctional ORR/OER activities and working stabilities, outperforming commercial Pt/C and IrO 2 catalysts. Computational results further verify the valuable synergistic contributions based on density-functional theory (DFT). This approach opens up a new possibility for the fabrication of bifunctional biochar-based ORR/OER catalysts from artificial engineering and green processing for sustainable agricultural wastes.
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能源科学
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Journal of Energy Chemistry
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2022
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IF 13.599
Hongyao Xue,Alan Meng,Tongqing Yang,Zhenjiang Li,Chunjun Chen
Introducing vacancy defects and unique morphology is an effective strategy to improve the catalytic performance of transition metal compounds. However, precisely controlling the amount of vacancy defects remains challenging. Here, we propose a facile and efficient hydrothermal accompanying an annealing method to synthesize a series of Mn-doped CoO nanomaterials with controllable oxygen vacancies and unique morphology. The oxygen vacancies amount can be precisely controlled by adjusting the Mn-doping content and is positively correlated with catalytic performance. It was found that the oxygen vacancies amount can reach up to 38.2% over the Mn-doped CoO nanomaterials, resulting in ultra-high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalytic activity (HER: 25.6 and 37 mV at 10 mA cm −2 ; OER: 301 and 322 mV at 50 mA cm −2 ) under both basic and acidic conditions, while reaching 10 mA cm −2 for an ultra-low cell voltage of only 1.52 V, which exceeds that of Pt/C/RuO 2 and all reported non-noble metal oxide catalysts. The DFT calculations reveal oxygen vacancies can optimize H* and HOO* intermediates adsorption free energy, thus improving the HER and OER performance. Interestingly, the Mn-doped CoO with rich oxygen vacancies exhibits excellent antibacterial properties in vitro of biomedicine. This work provides new ideas and methods for the rational design and precise control of vacancy defects in transition metal compounds and explores their potential application value in electrochemical water splitting and biomedical fields.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2024
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Zandong Zhang,Zuobo Yang,Junan Gao,Xiaokuan Wu,Jimmy Yun,Jie Zhang
This study developed ternary NiFeCr hydroxide microsphere composites for efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline water. Compared to binary NiFe composites, the ternary composites exhibited superior electrocatalytic activity. In a 1 M KOH solution, the ternary composite demonstrated a low initial potential of 1.46 V (RHE), and the overpotential is only 268 mV @ 100 mA cm −2 . Charge rearrangement due to chromium oxidation helped maintain iron's low oxidation state, preserving OER activity. The redistribution of chromium particles stabilized iron and prevented its dissolution in an alkaline solution. Consequently, the optimized NiFeCr catalyst exhibits excellent stability, with a stability of 200 h at 100 mA cm −2 . This study offers a novel approach to designing efficient and stable catalysts for water decomposition.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2025
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Daming Yang,Yingyue Zhang,Jiaqi Sun,Xinyu Zhang,Ze Gao,Qilong Sun,Tong Wu,Wei Lu,Guiru Sun,Ming Feng
The photo-assisted strategy is viewed as a promising method to improve the ORR and OER performance of Li–O 2 batteries. Nevertheless, designing a photocatalyst that ensures wide light absorption and minimizes the recombination of photoinduced electrons and holes is still a notable challenge. In this study, 2D porous Co 3 O 4 nanosheets are synthesized as photocatalysts for photo-assisted Li–O 2 batteries. Their unique structure improves surface area, facilitates O 2 transport, and stores discharge products. Equally, the Co 3 O 4 nanosheets exhibit strong light responsiveness and photocatalytic activity. Upon optical field, photoinduced electrons and holes are successfully separated on Co 3 O 4 nanosheets, which promotes the formation and decomposition of Li 2 O 2 , respectively. Li–O 2 cells using Co 3 O 4 nanosheets display a low overpotential of 0.15 V and good cycling stability under optical field. These findings highlight the potential of Co 3 O 4 nanosheets as photocatalysts for photo-assisted Li–O 2 batteries, providing a foundation for future energy storage advancements.
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Lin Wu,Jie Feng,Zhijuan Zou,Kunpeng Song,Chunmei Zeng
It’s still a challenge to design reasonably efficient catalyst based on non-noble metal for water decomposition. Herein, we prepared a self-supported S-NiFe/NFF catalyst by sulfurated NiFe-based metal–organic framework on the NiFe foam (NFF) through a simple solvothermal method. Benefiting from the direct contact with the conductive NiFe foam matrix, the electronic environment of the active site regulated by heteroatomic oxygen and sulfur, and the positive synergistic effect between nickel and iron, the catalyst S-NiFe/NFF shows outstanding electrocatalytic activity for oxygen evolution (OER) and hydrogen evolution (HER) reactions with a low overpotential of 174 mV and 150 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 in alkaline electrolyte, respectively; and the S-NiFe/NFF‖S-NiFe/NFF cell only needs 1.50 V battery voltage to reach the current density of 10 mA cm −2 . This work reports a highly efficient water decomposition catalyst, which indicates that non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts have great potential applications in the water electrolysis field, and provides a basis for rational design and synthesis of MOF-derived catalysts with unique structures.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2023
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Tianyan Lan,Hongmei Du,Yunwu Li,Konggang Qu,Jinsheng Zhao,Xianxi Zhang,Yunyun Dong,Yan Zhang,Xueyue Zhang,Danyang Zhang
The development of bifunctional electrocatalysts to reduce the polarization loss is essential to enhance the performance of Zn-air batteries. The combination of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with metal or metallic compounds provides a way to integrate their merits and effectively improve their electrocatalytic performances. However, previous synthesis of MOFs/metal oxides usually involves high-temperature calcination , which makes it difficult to control their morphologies. In this work, through a ligand-insufficient and high temperature controlled solvothermal reaction, innovative NiFe-MOF/NiFe 2 O 4 hollow nanospheres were one-pot prepared without using any shape-controlled agent or calcination process. The as-obtained NiFe-MOF/NiFe 2 O 4 shows better ORR and OER performance than pure NiFe-MOF and NiFe 2 O 4 , suggesting a synergetic effect between NiFe-MOF and NiFe 2 O 4 . The maximum power density of the liquid Zn-air battery assembled using NiFe-MOF/NiFe 2 O 4 as the air electrode catalyst is 158.4 mW cm −2 at 246.1 mA cm −2 . This work offers fresh thoughts into designing highly efficient MOF-derived electrocatalysts.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2022
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IF 6.371
Yingchao Wang,Jingjing Wu,Xianglong Lu,YuMin Guo,Huining Zhao,Xin Tang
The bifunctional catalysts which can improve both oxygen evolution (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity are highly desirable for fuel cells, metal-air batteries and water splitting. Here, we report a perovskite structure Sr 0.9 M 0.1 RuO 3-δ (SMRO, M=K, Na, Ag) synthesized via sol-gel method performing excellent bifunctional catalytic activity. With the metal ion (M + ) doping in A-site, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis reveals that oxygen vacancy and lattice oxygen are introduced into the structure, which is confirmed as the primary reason for the improvement of catalytic activity. The highest OER and ORR activity among these four samples is observed in Sr 0.9 Ag 0.1 RuO 3 (SARO). This work may shed light on the designing of high-efficiency bifunctional OER/ORR electrocatalysts .
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Materials
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2024
·Vol. 17
·期 19
·4876
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IF 3.1
Hao Li,Feng Chen,Xinyang Wu,Dandan Wang,Yongpeng Ren,Yaru Li
In recent years, there has been significant interest in transition-metal sulfides (TMSs) due to their economic affordability and excellent catalytic activity. Nevertheless, it is difficult for TMSs to achieve satisfactory performance due to problems such as low conductivity, limited catalytic activity, and inadequate stability. Therefore, a catalyst with a heterostructure constituted of a nickel–iron-layered double hydroxide, nickel sulfide, molybdenum disulfide, and cerium dioxide was designed. At the current density of 10 mA cm−2in an alkaline solution, the catalyst exhibits a HER overpotential of 116 mV. In addition, an overpotential of 235 mV@150 mA cm−2was displayed for OER. The catalyst showed a good retention rate (94.7% for HER, 98.6% for OER) after 160 h stability tests. The excellent electrochemical performance is attributed to the following points: 1. The self-supporting three-dimensional hierarchical structure provides abundant sites, fast ion diffusion channels, and electron transfer paths, and ensures structural stability. 2. The strong interfacial electron interaction between Ni3S2/MoS2heterojunction and NiFe-LDH improves the OER reaction kinetics. 3. The Ce3+and oxygen vacancies in CeO2promote the dissociation of H2O and promote the HER reaction kinetics. This approach paves the way for developing highly efficient electrocatalysts for various electrochemical applications.
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Materials Today Energy
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2022
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IF 9.257
Kaiyue Chen,Xingkun Wang,Canhui Zhang,Ren Xu,Huanlei Wang,Lei Chu,Minghua Huang
Breakthroughs in the design of robust bifunctional oxygen reduction/evolution reaction (ORR/OER) catalysts could put Zn–air batteries performance to the summit but remain full of challenges. In this work, the MnS phase was deliberately introduced into the Mott–Schottky Co/Co 9 S 8 for engineering a three-phases Co/Co 9 S 8 /MnS heterojunction on defect-rich N-doped mesoporous carbon substrate (Co/Co 9 S 8 /MnS-NMC). It affords abundant three-phases heterostructure interfaces that effectively accelerate the electron transfer and trigger further electronic structure reconfiguration, thus advancing the bifunctional ORR/OER activities. Benefiting from these structures, the Co/Co 9 S 8 /MnS-NMC possesses a half-wave potential of 0.84 V toward ORR and a low overpotential of 330 mV toward OER at a current density of 10 mA/cm 2 , catching up with those of commercial Pt/C and RuO 2 catalysts. It also endows the Zn–air batteries with a good power density, round-trip efficiency, and robust stability over 750 h, showcasing the promising potential in practical applications. This work not only provides a facile strategy to construct the three-phases heterojunction catalysts but also sheds light on developing the efficient and robust nonprecious metal-based bifunctional ORR/OER catalysts.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2024
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Boyan Dai,Xinyu Wei,Liang Chen,Xiaolong Bao,Qin Zhong,Hongxia Qu
The investigation of highly efficient metal–organic framework (MOF) electrocatalysts represents a pivotal challenge in enhancing the overall efficiency of water electrolysis. In this study, we present a co-liganding method based on molecular regulation, in which succinic (s.a), adipic (a.a), and decanedioic (d.a) acids are employed to modify the original ligand H 2 BDC-based bimetallic NiFe-MOF to obtain dual-ligand NiFe-MOF electrocatalysts with excellent OER and HER performance (NiFe-MOF s.a, NiFe-MOF a.a, and NiFe-MOF d.a). Notably, NiFe-MOF d.a performs the best, particularly in 1 M KOH solution, with an OER overpotential of 242 mV and an HER overpotential of 116 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 , and it demonstrates excellent stability under alkaline conditions, outperforming several recently reported Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts. Bader charge and Mulliken charge calculations alongside experimental characterization data indicate that long-chain dicarboxylate ligands can influence the morphology, oxygen vacancy formation, and electronic structure of NiFe-MOFs. XPS and XRD analyses after the OER reveal that the four NiFe-MOFs undergo structural reorganization, with NiFe-MOF d.a having more unsaturated metal sites and more oxygen vacancies, promoting greater conversion of the MOF to NiOOH and FeOOH, which is beneficial for improving the OER performance. The density of states (DOS) results from DFT calculations demonstrate that the d-band center of NiFe-MOF d.a is relatively low, indicating that the adsorption energy of H* is reduced, which can promote the release of H 2 . Furthermore, the hydrogen adsorption free energy (ΔG H* ) values of the Fe and Ni active sites within NiFe-MOF d.a are closer to zero, thus accelerating the HER kinetics. This work paves new pathways for realizing dual-ligand MOFs.
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2021
·Vol. 31
·期 24
·2101324
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IF 18.808
Daying Guo,Zhihao Zeng,Zhixin Wan,Yan Li,Bin Xi,Chengxin Wang
Reported herein is an active and durable CoN-containing oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst which efficiently functions in a neutral medium (pH ≈7). The composite material (N, S)-RGO@CoN is synthesized by delicate atomic layer deposition (ALD) of CoN on a nitrogen and sulfur (N, S) co-doped reduced graphene oxide (RGO) substrate. Representative results of the comprehensive study are: 1) The flower-like sphere RGO substrate prepared by spray drying method features rich physical and chemical properties, which are beneficial for rapid mass/charge transfer to improve the intrinsic OER process; 2) the optimal ALD material for OER tests is afforded by tuning spray conditions and ALD parameters. Versatile structural and compositional characterizations confirm uniform growth and strong chemical coupling of nanostructured CoN on (N, S)-RGO matrix; 3) the material is electrocatalytically active and durable in a neutral electrolyte, recording an OER overpotential of 220 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 and stability of 20 h continuous catalysis at 20 mA cm −2 with nearly 100% Faradic efficiency; 4) Upon the experimental studies and density functional theory calculations, the eventual mechanism of remarkable OER activity conforms to the structural fate of ALD CoN electronic coupling to the carbon substrate.
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CARBON
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2020
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IF 8.821
Jintao Zhang,Tong Zhang,Jing Ma,Zhi Wang,Junhao Liu,Xuzhong Gong
Two-step carbonization method was reported to synthesize Co–N doped coal tar pitch (CTP) carbon-based electrocatalysts with hierarchical pore structure , high local order degree and efficient Co-N x active structure simultaneously. The synergistic effect of the carbon substrate with highly ordered structure and the Co-N x active sites realized the “Point discharge effect”. The π-π interactions from the CTP aromatic ring sheets and Co-N x promoted the adsorption and dissociation of oxygen molecules, respectively. The increased diffusion coefficient ( D 0 ) indicated the mass transfer of oxygen molecules in the boundary layer was enhanced during the ORR process. Thanks to excellent structural characteristics, ACTP 5 @Co,N-800 exhibited better ORR performance than commercial Pt/C catalyst under alkaline conditions, and the OER activity was improved simultaneously. This work demonstrated a simple and practical strategy for the development of advanced carbon-based electrocatalysts, and also provided novel insights from kinetics perspectives for improving electrocatalytic efficiency.
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