Oxygen/Hydrogen-Based Electrocatalysis and Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "C：Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 4837
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nano materials; carbon-based materials; electrocatalysts; fuel cells; water splitting; hydrogen production; metal-air batteries; lithium ion batteries
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, as a clean source of energy, hydrogen energy has been fast developed to solve the increasingly serious problems that human beings are facing—fossil fuel energy shortage and environmental pollution. These problems make us consider green and highly efficient hydrogen production and applications. Among them, hydrogen production by water electrolysis (HER/OER), hydrogen fuel cells (HOR/ORR), and regenerative fuel cells (HOR/ORR/HER/OER), which are devices that can operate alternately as an electrolyzer and as a fuel cell, is promising to generate and make full use of hydrogen energy as an environmentally friendly and efficient solution. However, the expensive and low efficient catalyst and the irrational electrode architecture seriously hinder their development. In addition, for metal–air batteries, especially Zn–air batteries (ZABs), the ORR and OER processes are sluggish, and the issues of catalyst and electrode optimization also must be considered.
This Special Issue focuses on all topics dealing with catalysts, electrodes, and devices involving some important electrochemical reactions including ORR, OER, HOR, and HER, from fundamental to applied research. You are invited to submit recent advances in research to this Special Issue of Micromachines. Original research papers, short communications, and review articles are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Shichun Mu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)
- Oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
- Hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR)
- Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)
- Catalysts
- Electrode
- Water electrolysis
- Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs)
- Zn-air batteries (ZABs)
