Nanostructured Materials for Electrocatalytic Applications
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanostructured Catalysts".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 1087
Special Issue Editor
2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: electrocatalysis; fuel cell; energy conversion; nanomaterials; nitrogen fixation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to attract authors seeking to present their up-to-date work on advanced nanomaterials for electrocatalysis. In such a wide-scale task, the focus is on the rational design and characterization of functional nanomaterials and the demonstration of the enhancement of their electrocatalytic performance as electrode materials for alternative energy devices (AEDs). In addition to the possible application of advanced nanomaterials, the fundamental aspects, including the investigation of model electrode nanomaterials and the theoretical basis of their electrocatalytic activity for the particular reaction, are also important issues.
Among the new advanced nanomaterials, those consisting of platinum group metals as highly active electrocatalysts for AEDs and those of non-precious metals with equal or even higher activity are especially interesting. These include nanoparticles of single-crystalline structures, (multi)metallic nanoparticles, alloys with low noble metal contents, and various composite materials consisting of non-precious metals.
Because of the nanocatalyst–support interactions, the choice of the support material is of crucial importance. From a fundamental point of view, single-crystal supports offer a chance to examine the basis of heterogeneous catalysis, which involves electronic effects, the geometry of the surface active sites, and their influence on the synergistic activity with the nanocatalysts of well-defined structures for a range of electrochemical reactions. From a practical point of view, carbon-based supports offer a possibility for the rational design of low-cost nanoparticles, either with a low content of noble metals, down to a single atom, or with non-precious metals. High electrocatalytic activity and long-term stability are the most decisive properties of such supported nanocatalysts for their use as electrodes contributing to improved AED performance.
In addition, for this Special Issue, the electrochemical reactions of interest include (but are not limited to) hydrogen evolution/oxidation, oxygen reduction/evolution, CO2 reduction, N2 reduction and CO, methanol, and ethanol oxidation.
Prof. Dr. Guangjin Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- synthesis and characterization of advanced nanomaterials
- nanoparticles based on Pt-group metals
- nanoparticles based on non-precious metals
- Pt-group metal supports
- carbon-based supports
- heterogeneous electrocatalysis
- synergistic effect, electronic effect, surface-active sites
- hydrogen evolution/oxidation
- oxygen reduction/evolution
- CO2 reduction
- N2 reduction
- CO, methanol, and ethanol oxidation
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