scholarly journals N-doped porous transition metal-based carbon nanosheet networks as a multifunctional electrocatalyst for rechargeable zinc–air batteries

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (20) ◽  
pp. 2924-2927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieting Ding ◽  
Shan Ji ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Hengjun Gai ◽  
Fusheng Liu ◽  
...  

The development of cost-effective and highly efficient multi-functional oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction catalysts has attracted much research attention due to their great potential applications in many advanced clean energy storage and conversion technologies.

Author(s):  
Jiacheng Li ◽  
Wanqing Li ◽  
Hongwei Mi ◽  
Yongliang Li ◽  
Libo Deng ◽  
...  

The development of high-efficiency and durable bifunctional oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts as air cathodes is still a challenge in energy storage and conversion. In...


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 11241-11280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srabanti Ghosh ◽  
Rajendra N. Basu

Multifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) have attracted widespread attention because of their important role in the application of various energy storage and conversion devices, such as fuel cells, metal–air, batteries and water splitting devices.


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (48) ◽  
pp. 23110-23115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Li ◽  
Yuhao Zhang ◽  
Jinfang Zhang ◽  
Congwei Wang

Cost-effective preparation of efficient electrocatalysts is vitally important for energy storage and conversion.


Author(s):  
Oyunbileg Galindev ◽  
Tatsuya Takeguchi ◽  
Md. Mijanur Rahman

The high cost and limited availability of the precious metal catalysts required for catalysing the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in metal–air batteries restrict the marketing of these clean energy technologies.


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1472
Author(s):  
Minhua Jiang ◽  
Xiaofang Yu ◽  
Haoqi Yang ◽  
Shuiliang Chen

Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has attracted considerable attention for clean energy conversion technologies to reduce traditional fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Although platinum (Pt) metal is currently used as an electrocatalyst to accelerate sluggish ORR kinetics, the scarce resource and high cost still restrict its further scale-up applications. In this regard, biomass-derived carbon electrocatalysts have been widely adopted for ORR electrocatalysis in recent years owing to their tunable physical/chemical properties and cost-effective precursors. In this minireview, recent advances of the optimization strategies in biomass-derived carbon electrocatalysts towards ORR have been summarized, mainly focusing on the optimization of pore structure and active site. Besides, some current challenges and future perspectives of biomass-derived carbon as high-performance electrocatalysts for ORR have been also discussed in detail. Hopefully, this minireview will afford a guideline for better design of biomass-derived carbon electrocatalysts for ORR-related applications.


Author(s):  
Xin Yu Gao ◽  
Xingwei Sun ◽  
Jia Hui Guo ◽  
Ya Nan Teng ◽  
Lei Liu ◽  
...  

The exploration of bifunctional oxygen electrode towards oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the bottlenecks for the development of rechargeable zinc-air battery as a clean...


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (34) ◽  
pp. 15763-15769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Xin Wu ◽  
Huabin Zhang ◽  
Jian Zhang

Hybrid zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (HZIFs) possess the characteristics of both ZIFs and inorganic zeolites, attracting tremendous attention for their potential applications in electrochemical energy storage and conversion.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (55) ◽  
pp. 33428-33435
Author(s):  
Xiaoyun Liu ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Yueqiu Jiang

Rational design of electrode materials plays a significant role in potential applications such as energy storage and conversion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 580-585
Author(s):  
Dae-Young Um ◽  
R. Nandi ◽  
Jeong-Hun Yang ◽  
Jin-Soo Kim ◽  
Jong-Woong Kim ◽  
...  

Recently, molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) has attracted nascent research attention for potential applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices due to its unique properties including tunable bandgap, strong photoluminescence and large exciton binding energy. However, the synthesis of reproducible, controlled and large scale MoSe2 films is still a great challenge. Here, we have investigated the morphology, structure and crystalline quality of MoSe2 films synthesized by the selenization of Mo metal films. The Mo metal films of different thicknesses were deposited at room temperature by direct current sputtering. Subsequently, MoSe2 films were prepared by selenization of sputtered Mo films at 550 °C for 20 minutes. The obtained MoSe2 films are polycrystalline with hexagonal crystal structure. The crystalline quality of the MoSe2 films is improved with increase in the thickness of Mo metal films. The MoSe2 films are found to be n-type in nature and reasonably stoichiometric (Mo/Se ratio ∼1:1.9). This study provides an experimental demonstration of an alternative cost-effective direct synthesis of MoSe2 films on SiO2/Si for the applications of semiconductor devices.


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