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Cathodic corrosion as a facile and universal method for scalable preparation of powdery single atom electrocatalysts

Top-down strategy has been widely applied for synthesis of metal single atom catalysts (SACs) via converting metal nanoparticles or bulk metals into...

Rui Li, **ayan Yan, ... **gsong Xu in Nano Research

Article 07 February 2024

Selective oxygen electroreduction to hydrogen peroxide in acidic media: The superiority of single-atom catalysts

Two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e-ORR) provides an environmentally friendly direction for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide (H ₂O ₂)....

Ergui Luo, Tongtong Yang, ... Jianfeng Jia in Nano Research

Article 22 February 2024

One-Step Solvothermal Synthesis of Ni Nanoparticle Catalysts Embedded in ZrO₂ Porous Spheres to Suppress Carbon Deposition in Low-Temperature Dry Reforming of Methane

Ni nanoparticle catalysts embedded in ZrO ₂ porous spheres and ZrO ₂ porous composite spheres, SiO ₂-ZrO ₂, MgO-ZrO ₂, and Y ₂O ₃-ZrO ₂, with 83−115 nm...

Meiliefiana Meiliefiana, Tsuzumi Nakayashiki, ... Kazuya Kobiro in Nanoscale Research Letters

Article Open access 18 April 2022

In₂O₃/Bi₁₉Br₃S₂₇ S-scheme heterojunction with enhanced photocatalytic CO₂ reduction

In recent years, semiconductor catalysts have attracted lots of attention due to their substantial redox capability and adequate stability. However,...

Yuqin Bian, Houwei He, ... Kai Dai in Science China Materials

Article 17 January 2024

Catalytic hydrolysis of sodium borohydride for hydrogen generation using g-C₃N₄/Co–W–B/Ni foam composite catalyst

In this study, electroless plating method was adopted for the first time to prepare double-loaded g-C ₃N ₄/Co–W–B/NF (NF = Ni foam) catalysts....

Haiyue Cong, Jian Ren, ... Shiwei Wu in Journal of Materials Science

Article 01 January 2023

Floating solar hydrogen production

Mingshan Zhu, Zhi Li in Nature Nanotechnology

Article 08 May 2023

Made to Measure

This chapter looks at three very different methods of making materials that have become essential to our modern lives—pulling single crystals of...

M. Grant Norton in A Modern History of Materials

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Scandium and Its Materials Applications

Scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), and the 15 lanthanides belong to group 3 in the periodic table of elements; the main chemical properties are similar to...

Changzhen Wang in Theory and Application of Rare Earth Materials

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Carbon Nanomaterials in Electrochemical Biodevices

A biosensor is a measuring system that contains a biological receptor unit that is highly selective for target analytes (DNA/RNA, proteins, or simple...

Thiago da Costa Oliveira, Steffane Quaresma Nascimento in Advances in Bioelectrochemistry Volume 5

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Metal Fluoride and Fluorinated Metal Oxide Aerogels

This chapter provides an overview of work done on inorganic aerogels in which oxygen is largely or completely replaced by fluorine, i.e., highly...

Tomaž Skapin in Springer Handbook of Aerogels

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Scalable salt-templated directed synthesis of high-quality MoS₂ nanosheets powders towards energetic and environmental applications

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as perfect platforms for develo** applications in nano-electronics,...

Lijie Zhu, Pengfei Yang, ... Yanfeng Zhang in Nano Research

Article 27 August 2020

Self-supporting and hierarchically porous Ni_xFe—S/NiFe₂O₄ heterostructure as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for fluctuating overall water splitting

Stable non-noble metal bifunctional electrocatalysts are one of the challenges to the fluctuating overall water splitting driven by renewable energy....

Wen**g Yan, **tao Zhang, ... Mingyong Wang in International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials

Article 26 April 2022

Graphene Edge Structures: Folding, Tubing, and Twisting

In this chapter, different methods to fabricate graphene like chemical vapor deposition, liquid-phase exfoliation, flame synthesis, and pulsed laser...

Merve Karaman, Eyyup Yalcin, ... Mustafa Can in Handbook of Functionalized Carbon Nanostructures

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Mesoporous polysilsesquioxane adsorbents with secondary amine groups for ions of metals, rare earth elements, and reactive dye removal

Silica nanoparticles with secondary amine groups were synthesized through silanes hydrolysis with ammonia (sol–gel method). SEM analysis showed that...

Inna Melnyk, Veronika Tomina, ... Olha Semeshko in Applied Nanoscience

Article 29 June 2023

Conducting Polymers for Water Splitting Applications

Water splitting is one of the most known chemical reactions in which water is converted to O2 and H2. H2 is regarded as an excellent fuel for the...

Soheila Sharafinia, Alimorad Rashidi in Handbook of Energy Materials

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The Chemistry of CO2 Reduction Processes: Mechanisms, Challenges, and Perspectives

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions due to fossil fuels as an energy source have caused an accumulation of this gas in the atmosphere. Consequently, there is...

André E. Nogueira, Lucas S. Ribeiro, ... Luiz F. Gorup in Handbook of Energy Materials

Living reference work entry 2022

Fiber Materials for Electrocatalysis Applications

Fiber materials are promising for electrocatalysis applications due to their structural features including high surface area, controllable chemical...

Fangzhou Zhang, Jun Chen, Jian** Yang in Advanced Fiber Materials

Article 25 April 2022

Promises Unmet

This chapter discusses several developments in materials science that have produced great excitement in the field but have, as yet, failed to live up...

M. Grant Norton in A Modern History of Materials

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