Search Results - "Zou, Xiaoxin"
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Noble metal-free hydrogen evolution catalysts for water splitting
Published in Chemical Society reviews (07-08-2015)“…Sustainable hydrogen production is an essential prerequisite of a future hydrogen economy. Water electrolysis driven by renewable resource-derived electricity…”
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Active Site Engineering in Porous Electrocatalysts
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-11-2020)“…Electrocatalysis is at the center of many sustainable energy conversion technologies that are being developed to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. The…”
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Efficient Noble Metal-Free (Electro)Catalysis of Water and Alcohol Oxidations by Zinc–Cobalt Layered Double Hydroxide
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-11-2013)“…Replacing rare and expensive noble metal catalysts with inexpensive and earth-abundant ones for various renewable energy-related chemical processes as well as…”
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Optimization of Active Sites via Crystal Phase, Composition, and Morphology for Efficient Low‐Iridium Oxygen Evolution Catalysts
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (26-10-2020)“…Reducing the amount of iridium in oxygen evolution electrocatalysts without compromising their catalytic performances is one of the major requirements in…”
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Overall Water Splitting Catalyzed Efficiently by an Ultrathin Nanosheet-Built, Hollow Ni3S2-Based Electrocatalyst
Published in Advanced functional materials (19-07-2016)“…Making highly efficient catalysts for an overall water splitting reaction is vitally important to bring solar/electrical‐to‐hydrogen energy conversion…”
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Cobalt-Embedded Nitrogen-Rich Carbon Nanotubes Efficiently Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at All pH Values
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-04-2014)“…Despite being technically possible, splitting water to generate hydrogen is still practically unfeasible due mainly to the lack of sustainable and efficient…”
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Cu and Cu-Based Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Catalysis
Published in Chemical reviews (23-03-2016)“…The applications of copper (Cu) and Cu-based nanoparticles, which are based on the earth-abundant and inexpensive copper metal, have generated a great deal of…”
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High-Index Faceted Ni3S2 Nanosheet Arrays as Highly Active and Ultrastable Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-11-2015)“…Elaborate design of highly active and stable catalysts from Earth-abundant elements has great potential to produce materials that can replace the…”
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Corrosion engineering towards efficient oxygen evolution electrodes with stable catalytic activity for over 6000 hours
Published in Nature communications (04-07-2018)“…Although a number of nonprecious materials can exhibit catalytic activity approaching (sometimes even outperforming) that of iridium oxide catalysts for the…”
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In suit growth of CuSe nanoparticles on MXene (Ti3C2) nanosheets as an efficient counter electrode for quantum dot-sensitized solar cells
Published in Electrochimica acta (01-09-2019)“…This paper reports a one-step hydrothermal method of in-situ growing copper selenide (CuSe) nanoparticles on the 2D materials-MXene (Ti3C2) nanosheets to form…”
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Perovskite‐Type Solid Solution Nano‐Electrocatalysts Enable Simultaneously Enhanced Activity and Stability for Oxygen Evolution
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-08-2020)“…A trade‐off between catalytic activity and structural stability generally exists in oxygen evolution electrocatalysis, especially in acidic environment. This…”
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Efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysis in acid by a perovskite with face-sharing IrO6 octahedral dimers
Published in Nature communications (07-12-2018)“…The widespread use of proton exchange membrane water electrolysis requires the development of more efficient electrocatalysts containing reduced amounts of…”
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Ultrafast Formation of Amorphous Bimetallic Hydroxide Films on 3D Conductive Sulfide Nanoarrays for Large‐Current‐Density Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-06-2017)“…Developing nonprecious oxygen evolution electrocatalysts that can work well at large current densities is of primary importance in a viable water‐splitting…”
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Efficient electrocatalysis of overall water splitting by ultrasmall NixCo3−xS4 coupled Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays
Published in Nano energy (01-05-2017)“…The overall water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen is one of the most promising ways to store intermittent solar and wind energy in the form of chemical…”
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Highly Active, Nonprecious Electrocatalyst Comprising Borophene Subunits for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (13-09-2017)“…Developing nonprecious hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts that can work well at large current densities (e.g., at 1000 mA/cm2: a value that is relevant for…”
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Nano-metal diborides-supported anode catalyst with strongly coupled TaOx/IrO2 catalytic layer for low-iridium-loading proton exchange membrane electrolyzer
Published in Nature communications (23-08-2023)“…The sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and high iridium loading in catalyst coated membrane (CCM) are the key challenges for practical proton…”
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Carbon-Armored Co9S8 Nanoparticles as All-pH Efficient and Durable H2‑Evolving Electrocatalysts
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (14-01-2015)“…Splitting water to produce hydrogen requires the development of non-noble-metal catalysts that are able to make this reaction feasible and energy efficient…”
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Status and perspectives of key materials for PEM electrolyzer
Published in Nano Research Energy (01-12-2022)“…Proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) represents a promising technology for the sustainable production of hydrogen, which is capable of…”
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Homogeneously Large Polarons in Aromatic Passivators Improves Charge Transport between Perovskite Grains for >24 % Efficiency in Photovoltaics
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (28-03-2022)“…Aromatic passivators, such as porphyrin, with large π‐backbones have attracted considerable attention to boost the charge carrier in polycrystalline perovskite…”
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Enhanced interface charge transfer via n-n WO3/Ti–Fe2O3 heterojunction formation for water splitting
Published in Journal of alloys and compounds (30-09-2019)“…Inevitable drawbacks on α-Fe2O3 photoanodes, such as poor conductivity, short hole diffusion length, high electron-hole recombination rate, limit their…”
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