SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2014
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IF 3.065
Lidan Lv,Jie Zhang,Chongpin Huang,Zhigang Lei,Biaohua Chen
The removal of dimethyl disulfide from model liquefied petroleum gas using metal salt impregnated zeolite as the adsorbent was studied in a fixed-bed adsorption equipment. Effects of different carrier, metal iron species and content of active component, mass space velocity, temperature, as well as adsorption selectivity and regeneration performance were all investigated by performing the breakthrough experiment. Among all these adsorbents, 5 wt.%Ag 2 O/NaY showed the highest breakthrough sulfur capacity. The adsorption selectivity of Ag 2 O/NaY was studied by the infrared spectra. It was found that the direct S–Ag(I) interaction was the essential reason for the evidently improved adsorption ability and selectivity of Ag 2 O/NaY for removing disulfide from solutions containing olefin . Regeneration study indicated that the saturated adsorbent was regenerated under the temperature of 550 °C for 8 h in the air atmosphere. After five times regeneration, the adsorbent Ag 2 O/NaY still shows high breakthrough sulfur capacity.
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化学工程
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环境科学
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Science China-Chemistry
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2024
·Vol. 67
·期 7
·2314-2324
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IF 10.4
Liu Xue,Li Jiangao,Zhang Fei,Yan Dingyuan,Wang Lei,Wang Dong,Tang Ben Zhong
Light-driven cancer theranostics has shown inexhaustible and vigorous vitality by virtue of its high efficacy, prominent controllability and noninvasiveness. Exploration of an all-round theranostic material simultaneously affording both multimodal diagnosis imaging and synergistic phototherapy would be an appealing yet significantly challenging task. Herein, a novel nanomedicine Ir@PPEG-MeEPO was ingeniously constructed by integrating beforehand 1 O 2 -charged amphiphilic polymer and well-tailored Ir(III) complex IrDPTP, which was featured by second near-infrared (NIR-II) aggregation-induced emission (AIE) tendency, efficient reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, good photothermal conversion efficiency and high-performance hydrogen gas production. To the best of our knowledge, IrDPTP held the longest emission wavelength among all reported AIE Ir (III) complexes. Moreover, Ir@PPEG-MeEPO was capable of controllably releasing ROS via triggered photothermal effect upon NIR irradiation, making it well-adapted to hypoxic environment of tumor. Those distinctive characteristics of Ir@PPEG-MeEPO endowed it with unprecedented performance on sextuple theranostics comprised of NIR-II fluorescence-photoacoustic-photothermal trimodal imaging and photodynamic-photothermal-hydrogen trimodal therapy, witnessed by the precise tumor diagnosis and complete tumor elimination. The study would open up new perspectives for the exploration of superior nanomedicine for practical cancer theranostics.
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肿瘤学
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生物材料学
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纳米医学
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光疗学
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2024
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IF 3.3
Cong Fu,Lingfang Liu,Cici Wang,Weixin Huang,Guofeng Zhao
Unraveling the effect of defects on the concentration of surface-available photoexcited charges is of great importance for semiconductors in photocatalysis. Herein, by using in situ diffuse-reflectance infrared (IR) spectroscopy, the concentration of surface-available photoholes on TiO2 nanoparticles with tunable bulk/surface defects was quantified by an adsorbate (methanol) surface elementary reaction kinetic analysis method. Reaction kinetics showed that the oxidation of the adsorbed methanol species under light irradiation was a first-order reaction. Therefore, the concentration of surface-available photoholes can be calculated from the rate constants of adsorbed methanol on the TiO2 surface. By carefully comparing the specific reaction rate constants on the TiO2 surface with various bulk/surface defect ratios, we demonstrated for the first time that increasing the bulk defect concentration relative to the surface defects decreases the concentration of surface-available photoholes. This trend implicates different effects of bulk and surface defects on band bending and subsequent interfacial hole transfer processes in TiO2 nanoparticles. These insights not only reveal the mechanistic role of surface and bulk defects in photocatalysis but also highlight that in situ IR spectroscopy combined with reaction kinetic analysis has enormous potential in elucidating photocatalytic mechanisms.
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光催化
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材料化学
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表面科学
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物理化学
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纳米材料
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分析化学
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2018
·Vol. 6
·期 16
·7194-7205
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IF 9.931
Lan Lan,Zhengkang Shi,Qian Zhang,Yuanzhi Li,Yi Yang,Shaowen Wu,Xiujian Zhao
A sample of Co3O4 mesoporous nanorods (Co3O4-MNR) with a considerable number of Co2+ vacancy defects was prepared by a facile method. Co3O4-MNR exhibits highly effective photothermocatalytic activity and excellent durability for the gas-phase oxidation of benzene (a recalcitrant poisonous air pollutant) under UV-visible-infrared illumination from a Xe lamp. It is discovered for the first time that the presence of Co2+ vacancies in Co3O4-MNR massively enhances the photothermocatalytic activity of Co3O4. Compared to a commercial Co3O4 sample (Aladdin) with a smaller number of Co2+ vacancies and TiO2 (P25), the CO2 production rate of Co3O4-MNR is massively increased by 165 and 309 times, respectively. Co3O4-MNR exhibits efficient photothermocatalytic activity for benzene oxidation even under the visible-infrared illumination of λ > 690 nm. The catalytic oxidation of benzene on Co3O4-MNR under the illumination of the Xe lamp follows a mechanism of solar-light-driven thermocatalysis. The experimental evidence of CO-TPR as well as theoretical evidence of density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrate that the presence of Co2+ vacancies in Co3O4-MNR significantly increases the activity of the lattice oxygen in Co3O4, thus massively promoting the thermocatalytic activity of Co3O4. Interestingly, a novel photoactivation on Co3O4, quite different from the conventional photocatalysis of semiconductor photocatalysts such as TiO2, is discovered to considerably increase the solar-light-driven thermocatalytic activity of Co3O4-MNR. By combining the experimental evidence of isotope labeling, CO-TPR, and FTIR with the DFT calculations, we obtain a deep insight into the novel photoactivation: the illumination from the Xe lamp enhances the activity of the lattice oxygen in Co3O4-MNR, thus considerably promoting the solar-light-driven thermocatalytic activity of Co3O4-MNR.
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催化化学
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材料科学
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环境化学
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纳米技术
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物理化学
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2019
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IF 8.456
Lan Yang,Hui Chen,Lei Shi,Xiaotian Li,Xuefeng Chu,Wei Chen,Nan Li,Xiaoxin Zou
One of the key objectives in PEM electrolysis technology is to reduce iridium loading and to improve iridium mass activity at the side of oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. 6H-phase, Ir-based perovskite (6H-SrIrO3) is known to be a promising alternative to the IrO2 catalyst, and developing effective strategies to further enhance its catalytic performance is needed. Here we present that a significant enhancement in electrocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction of 6H-SrIrO3 can be achieved by cobalt incorporation. A suitable amount of cobalt dopants results in a decreased formation temperature of 6H-SrIrO3 from 700 to 500 °C and thereby a decreased thickness of platelike particles for the material. Besides the morphological effect, the cobalt incorporation also increases the coverage of surface hydroxyl groups, regulates the Ir–O bond covalency, and modulates the oxygen p-band center of the material. This synergistic optimization of the morphological, surface, and electronic structures makes the cobalt-doped 6H-SrIrO3 catalyst give a 3-fold increase in iridium mass activity for oxygen evolution reaction in comparison with the undoped 6H-SrIrO3 under acidic conditions.
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电化学
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催化材料
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能源材料
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ENERGY & FUELS
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2026
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IF 6
Guoqing Sun,Nan Jiang,Xiaopo Niu,Guangya Feng,Lili Tian,Wenli Zhao,Kaige Zhang,Xiangwen Zhang,Qingfa Wang
Selective ring-opening (SRO) of bulky polycyclic cycloalkanes is a crucial process for producing high-quality fuels; however, its decisive catalytic descriptors remain poorly understood. Herein, the roles of different acid distributions on the SRO of perhydrophenanthrene were investigated by preparing a series of bifunctional Ir/β catalysts with different external Brønsted acid sites (BAS) densities. The results showed that the SRO of perhydrophenanthrene was governed by the density of externally accessible BAS, rather than by the total acidity or internal acid sites. The Ir/ExB catalyst enriched in external BAS exhibits markedly enhanced SRO activity and selectivity, whereas those with insufficient external BAS show negligible ring-opening performance. The SRO product yield exhibits a clear linear increase with the increase in external BAS density. These findings identify externally accessible BAS as a decisive descriptor for bulky polycyclic alkane SRO and provide guidance for the rational design of bifunctional Ir/β catalysts.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Li Yin,Baixue Xing,Ziyuan Liu,Lihua Lu
Herein, a novel ternary-atomic Fe/Zn/Ir nanozyme (Fe/Zn/Ir TAzyme) with peroxidase (POD)-like and luminescence properties is fabricated through coordinating Ir(III) complex into the as-prepared Fe/ZIF-8. The preparation procedures avoid high-temperature and pyrolysis which endue Fe/Zn/Ir nanocomposite with high stability and can be scaled up. Once Fe/Zn/Ir TAzyme catalyzes the substrate TMB to produce blue oxidized TMB (oxTMB), its luminescence is quenched by the generated oxTMB. Ascribed to its high POD-like activity and interesting luminescence property, a dual-mode sensing platform for the detection of melatonin (MT) is fabricated. In the presence of increasing concentrations of MT, the absorbance of the detection system declines, while the emission of the detection system grows. The detection platform exhibits the limits of detection (LODs) in colorimetric and luminescence detections are 8.9 nM and 8.8 nM, respectively, which can mutually validate the assay results. More importantly, Fe/Zn/Ir TAzyme has been fabricated into test swabs to monitor MT in the way of portable and naked-eye detection. This double-role TAzyme provides new conceptions for researchers to explore novel and highly efficient nanozymes in future.
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生物化学
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纳米医学
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分析化学
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2025
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IF 9.7
Xinyu Gu,Huiyu Sun,Nannan Zhang,Jun Yu,Jie Li,Changqing Ye,Yukou Du
One-dimensional (1D) Pd-based nanowire materials, characterized by high aspect ratios and exposed high-index crystal surfaces, are widely developed in the field of direct fuel cells. However, their synthesis methods are often not universal and necessitate demanding conditions, including high temperatures and metal templates, leading to resource consumption. In this study, we present a simple and universal one-step method for synthesizing PdM (Sb, Ir, and Bi) nanowire networks (NNWs) at room temperature. Leveraging their structural advantages and the synergistic effects between bimetals, PdM NNWs demonstrate exceptional electrocatalytic performance, exhibiting higher mass and specific activities as well as enhanced durability compared to Pd/C for the ethylene glycol and glycerol oxidation reactions. Notably, PdSb NNWs excelled in electrochemical tests, achieving the highest mass activities of 7.55 and 5.59 A mg −1 for the ethylene glycol oxidation reaction (EGOR) and glycerol oxidation reaction (GOR), respectively. Additionally, due to the semi-metallic properties of Sb, which can flexibly modify the chemical environment of Pd, the PdSb NNWs exhibited superior antitoxicity and a significantly lower decay of current density across three consecutive chronoamperometry (CA) tests. This research advances the synthesis of palladium-based nanostructures, providing impetus for the design of highly efficient electrocatalysts in the realm of direct alcohol fuel cells.
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材料科学
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燃料电池技术
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电化学
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2024
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IF 5.8
Liming Zeng,Yongyang Zhu,Daifeng Wu,Huayue Cheng,Qing Zhou
To improve the limited kinetics of alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), herein, a three-dimensional porous catalyst has been constructed based on the design concept of bi-directional electron modulation and chemical environment regulation of non-metallic and oxophilic transition metal elements with obvious differences in electronegativity on hybrid carbon layer-coated iridium/iridium oxide heterostructure. The Ir/IrO 2 @(N,S)-C possesses significantly superior catalytic activity and electrochemical stability towards alkaline HER with an overpotential of 150 mV reaching 50 mA cm −2 from LSV curve and an increment of 63 mV after 200 h of degradation test at 10 mA cm −2 in 1 M KOH, much lower than 277 mV and an elevation of 116 mV just after 25 h in 0.5 M H 2 SO 4 . The strongly electronegative non-metallic elements effectively modulate the electronic states of iridium/iridium oxide, the ratio of metallic states, and the oxophilic environment of the carbon layer, which enables the catalyst surface favorable for the moderate adsorption of water molecules and intermediates. The material engineering strategy offers a new insight for the development of high-performance catalysts towards water electrolysis based on homologous active species.
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材料科学
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电化学
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Ruiqi Guo,Zhenglong Fan,Qiwei Zhou,Mengjie Ma,Wenxiang Zhu,Fan Liao,Hao Yang,Jiajie Wang,Zhenhui Kang,Minqi Sheng
Iridium oxide (IrO 2 ) has traditionally been considered to exhibit limited oxygen-reducing capacity. An effective approach to improve the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity in parent catalytic materials is through atomic intercalation. However, the challenge lies in achieving a delicate balance between high ORR activity, structural stability, and minimizing the use of precious metals. Herein, we fabricate 3R-phase iridium oxide (3R-IrO 2 ) with superior ORR activity by intercalating a tiny amount of Pt (3.6 wt% Pt) into the interlayers of 3R-IrO 2 (3.6 wt% Pt-3R-IrO 2 ). When employed as an acidic ORR electrocatalyst, 3.6 wt% Pt-3R-IrO 2 shows a high half-wave potential (E 1/2 ) of 0.92 V (vs. RHE) in O 2 -saturated 0.1 M HClO 4 electrolyte, much better than those of Pt/C (0.850 V), 3R-IrO 2 (0.616 V), and Pt nanoparticles on 3R-IrO 2 surface (3.6 wt% Pt@3R-IrO 2 ) (0.618 V) electrocatalysts. It achieves high mass activity of 0.170 A mg Ir −1 at the potential of 0.9 V, which is 5.5 and 11.3 times than that of Pt/C (0.031 A mg Ir −1 ) and 3.6 wt% Pt@3R-IrO 2 (0.015 A mg Ir −1 ), respectively. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations and experiment results co-jointly demonstrate that the active center of Pt-3R-IrO 2 is anchored to the activated Ir atoms of the 3R-IrO 2 rather than Pt atoms. The d -band center of Ir 5 d orbitals of Pt-3R-IrO 2 is simultaneously regulated, which optimizes the energy barrier of adsorption/desorption toward the ORR process. Intriguingly, the intercalation of Pt atoms into trigonal rhodium oxide (Tri-RhO 2 ) also activates the ORR activity of Rh, suggesting the universality of this strategy. This discovery may provide a new and general way for activation of ORR activity of other precious metal-intercalated nonprecious metal oxide electrocatalysts.
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材料科学
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电化学
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催化
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能源材料
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IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 4.3
Penghai Li,Fengzhou Li,Kun Wang
The brain serves as the central hub for both our physiological and psychological activities, and current research on the human brain mostly relies on electroencephalography (EEG) method. Hence, we have developed a flexible nanozymes/iridium-titanium dioxide (SAN/Ir-TiO
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) dry electrode for collecting EEG signals. Due to the hygroscopic nature of SAN nanozymes, they facilitate the maintenance of skin moisture balance. Additionally, the combination of iridium nanoparticles with a titanium dioxide nanotube array enables rapid electron transfer, resulting in an average impedance of 14.2 kΩ in the no-hair region and 19.9 kΩ in the hair region for the electrode. Moreover, in experiments involving blinking, clenching teeth, and alpha wave blocking, signal collection correlation between SAN (single atom nanozymes)/Ir-TiO
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and traditional Ag/AgCl electrodes is 97.1% to 99.5%, and the signal collection correlation between electrodes from the market and traditional Ag/AgCl electrodes is 95.5% to 99.2%. In Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) experiments with a 9-channel cap, stimulation frequencies ranging from 7.5Hz to 14Hz were recorded and subjected to frequency domain analysis. Within the range of 7.5Hz to 14Hz, the signal-to-noise ratio ranged from 7.5 to 14.1db, surpassing the performance in other regions. In an 8-command SSVEP classification experiment, the train accuracy and online accuracy were as high as 92.8% and 92.8% respectively, demonstrating the feasibility of using SAN/Ir-TiO
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dry electrodes for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology.
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生物医学工程
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神经科学
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2025
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IF 13.2
Jiahao Yang,Zhaoping Shi,Yibo Wang,Hongxiang Wu,Jing Ni,Pengbo Wang,Meiling Xiao,Changpeng Liu,Wei Xing
Despite proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) being a commercially viable method for high-purity hydrogen production, the development of active and robust anode electrocatalysts with reduced iridium loading under high current density conditions remains highly challenging. Here, we report a core-shell nanostructured catalyst with a metallic titanium core uniformly covered by Ir nanoparticles (Ti@Ir). The spontaneously formed TiO x layer can effectively disperse Ir nanoparticles via interfacial Ti-O-Ir bonds, which in turn increases the oxidation state of Ir towards activated lattice oxygen reactivity, as confirmed by in-situ differential electrochemical mass spectrometry (DEMS). As a result, the Ti@Ir exhibits an overpotential of only 272 mV to reach 10 mA cm −2 , 17 mV lower than non-supported Ir nanoparticles, and a 3.82-fold higher mass activity at 1.53 V. Moreover, the Ti@Ir catalyst demonstrates strong stability during a 100-hour test at 10 mA cm −2 . Detailed analysis reveals that the oxidation of iridium close to the titanium core is suppressed. The huge potential for practical application is further confirmed in a PEMWE prototype, with a low iridium loading of 0.5 mg Ir cm −2 , significantly lower than the typical 2 ∼ 4 mg Ir cm −2 required for traditional catalysts. This Ti@Ir catalyst achieves a cell voltage of 1.858 V at an industrial-level current density of 2 A cm −2 and maintains stable operation for 1800 h with an exceptionally low voltage degradation rate of only 1.252 μV h −1 .
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材料科学
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能源技术
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电化学
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