Nowadays, great efforts have been spent on addressing concerns over energy and environmental crises. Among these efforts, electrocatalysis is widely recognized and studied for its high efficiency and easy processability. As a class of emerging electr...
Microbial electrocatalysis is an electro reaction that uses microorganisms as a biocatalyst, mainly including microbial electrolytic cells (MEC) and microbial fuel cells (MFC), which has been used for wastewater treatment. However, the low processing...
Metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes combine the structural designability of MOFs with a continuous membrane architecture that integrates reactant enrichment, active-site accessibility, and product separation. This review surveys catalytic M...
Catalytic processes, including thermo-, photo-, and electro-catalysis, as well as pyrocatalysis, represent highly promising strategies to address mounting energy and environmental challenges. Thermoelectric and pyroelectric materials, realizing inter...
Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries are considered as among the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices due to their high theoretical energy density and low cost. However, the inherently complex electrochemical mechanism in Li-S batte...
Among halogenated molecules, those containing chlorine atoms are fundamental in many areas such as pharmaceuticals, polymers, agrochemicals and natural metabolites. Despite the fact that many reactions have been developed to install chlorine on organ...
In recent years, with the outbreak of the global energy crisis, renewable solar energy has become a focal point of research. However, the utilization efficiency of natural photosynthesis (NPS) is only about 1%. Inspired by NPS, artificial photosynthe...
Membrane filtration has been widely used in wastewater treatment; contaminants attached to the membrane surface led to flux loss and service life reduction. In the present study, a photo-electrocatalysis membrane was fabricated with CNTs@TiO2 deposit...
Flexible electrochemical sensors can adhere to any bendable surface with conformal contact, enabling continuous data monitoring without compromising the surface’s dynamics. Among various materials that have been explored for flexible electronic...
The identification and optimization of electrode materials is of great importance in the study of (flow and solid state) batteries, industrial electrocatalysis and analytical devices such as sensors. To identify useful materials from a virtually unbo...
Solution-processed iron selenide nanocrystals (NCs) have recently attracted considerable attention in electrocatalysis water splitting. Nevertheless, a primary challenge in current iron-based NCs chemical synthesis is controlling phase purities betwe...
Hollow nanostructures have emerged as a pivotal class of nanomaterials in electrocatalysis, offering intrinsic advantages such as high surface-to-volume ratios, reduced density, and economical utilization of precious metals. However, the prevailing r...
The use of green hydrogen as a fuel source for marine applications has the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the industry. The development of a sustainable and cost-effective method for producing green hydrogen has gained a lo...
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the cathode cornerstone of fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Its inherent spin mismatch between triplet O2 and singlet products causes sluggish kinetics that conventional catalyst designs cannot fully overcome...
In this study, the effects of photo-electrocatalysis (PEC) were evaluated as an innovative application of conventional photocatalysis (PC) to remediate water in a recirculating system for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) culture, in relation to fi...
The development and implementation of technology that can capture and transform carbon dioxide (CO2) is of ongoing interest. To that end, the integration of molecular electrocatalysts into devices is appealing because of the desirable features of mol...
Polypyrrole (PPy) is an interesting conducting polymer due to its good environmental stability, high conductivity, and biocompatibility. The association between PPy and metallic nanoparticles has been widely studied since it enhances electrochemical...
Developing efficient and durable non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis in fuel cells and zinc–air batteries remains an urgent issue to be addressed. Herein, a bimetallic CoCe-NC catalyst is synthesized through pyrolysis of Co...
The global transition toward carbon neutrality and sustainable energy systems has placed electrocatalysis at the center of modern energy research [...]
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are a unique metallic alloy that was initially recognized for the possibility of stabilizing simple solid-solution phases through high configurational entropy. Research over the past two decades, however, has shown that the...
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are presently recognized as cutting-edge heterogeneous catalysts for electrochemical applications because of their nearly 100% utilization of active metal atoms and having well-defined active sites. In this regard, SACs a...
Electrocatalysis lies at the heart of many of the technologies required for a sustainable energy future, enabling the efficient interconversion of chemical and electrical energy under mild conditions and with direct compatibility with renewable power...
This paper presents graphite/paraffin composite electrodes modified with microparticles of nickel (Ni) and Ni-Fe alloy anchored in reduced graphene oxide (rGO); these electrodes were made by electrosynthesis. Firstly, the electrodeposition of reduced...
This editorial is dealing with the most cited papers published in the years 2018–2019 in the section “Electrocatalysis” of the journal Catalysts [...]
Carbon fiber has been extensively used in the photocatalysis, electrocatalysis and energy storage fields as supporting platform and conductive media. However, less attention has been paid with regards to its function in phonon transport and thermal m...
Amid rising global energy demand and worsening environmental pollution, there is an urgent need for efficient energy storage and conversion technologies. Oxygen electrocatalytic reactions, specifically the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxyg...
Flow batteries (also: redox batteries or redox flow batteries RFB) are briefly introduced as systems for conversion and storage of electrical energy into chemical energy and back. Their place in the wide range of systems and processes for energy conv...
Molybdenum-based electrocatalysts have been widely applied in electrochemical energy conversion reactions. The essential roles of defects, including doping, vacancies, grain boundaries, and dislocations in improving various electrocatalytic performan...
Graphdiyne (GDY) is a two-dimensional (2D) electron-rich full-carbon planar material composed of sp2- and sp-hybridized carbon atoms, which features highly conjugated structures, uniformly distributed pores, tunable electronic characteristics and hig...
The escalating demand for clean and sustainable energy, coupled with the need to mitigate climate change, has positioned electrocatalysis and energy storage as hot research topics [...]
The efficiency of hydrogen gas generation via electrochemical water splitting has been mostly limited by the availability of electrocatalyst materials that require lower overpotentials during the redox reaction. Noble metals have been used extensivel...
Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) have attracted increasing research interest recently; however, their output performance is severely hindered by the sluggish kinetics of the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) at the anode. Herein, unique hierarchical...
Developing highly active and durable platinum-based catalysts is crucial for electrochemical renewable energy conversion technologies but the limited supply and high cost of platinum have hindered their widespread implementation. The incorporation of...
Molecular copper water oxidation electrocatalysts have been extensively studied in recent years for their potential use in artificial photosynthetic systems for solar energy conversion. Although ligand modification and its ability to influence cataly...
The catalytic reduction of renewable furfural into furfuryl alcohol for various applications is in the ascendant. Nonetheless, the conventional chemo-catalysis hydrogenation of furfural always suffers from poor selectivity, harsh conditions, and expe...
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction is a promising approach to mitigate rising atmospheric CO2 levels while converting CO2 into valuable products such as CH4. Conversion into other useful substances further expands its potential applications. However, the...
In this experiment, C3N5 was synthesized by pyrolysis of 3-amino-1,2,4 triazole material, and then 1% Co-C3N5, 3% Co-C3N5, 5% Co-C3N5, 7% Co-C3N5, and 9% Co-C3N5 were synthesized by varying the mass ratio of cobalt chloride to C3N5 by stirring and ul...
The utilization of carbon dioxide is a major incentive for the growing field of carbon capture. Carbon dioxide could be an abundant building block to generate higher-value chemical products. Herein, we fabricated a porous copper electrode capable of...
High-performance electrocatalysts are critical to support emerging electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies. Graphite-derived materials, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, have been recognized as promising electro...
The global energy shortage and environmental degradation are two major issues of concern in today’s society. The production of renewable energy and the treatment of pollutants are currently the mainstream research directions in the field of pho...
Nanostructured materials have garnered significant attention for their unique properties, such as the high surface area and enhanced reactivity, making them ideal for electrocatalysis. Among these, perovskite oxides, with compositional and structural...
Noble metal nanostructures are exceptional light absorbing systems, in which electron–hole pairs can be formed and used as “hot” charge carriers for catalytic applications. The main goal of the emerging field of plasmon-induced cata...
The efficiency of hydrogen production via water electrolysis is severely constrained by the sluggish reaction kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, we constructed a nitrogen-doped CoFe Prussian blue analog (CoFePBA-N) electrocataly...
The synthesis of manganese lignosulfonates by a two-step method has been reported. It was based on the conversion of technical sodium derivative of lignosulfonate to its hydrogen form i.e., lignosulfonic acid and its further reaction with manganese h...
The hydrogen economy, associated with electrochemical water splitting, represents a promising pathway to mitigate reliance on fossil fuels. However, the efficiency of this process is constrained by the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the...
Metal phthalocyanines are well-known sensing phases with applications in different scientific fields due to their interesting properties. Detailed characterization by Raman spectroscopy was performed in order to study the shifting of the vibrational...
Surface engineering has achieved great success in enhancing the electrochemical activity of Co3O4. However, the previously reported methods always involve high-temperature calcination processes which are prone to induce agglomeration of the nanostruc...
Multifunctional electrocatalysts are vastly sought for their applications in water splitting electrolyzers, metal-air batteries, and regenerative fuel cells because of their ability to catalyze multiple reactions such as hydrogen evolution, oxygen ev...
Electrocatalysis provides an avenue for transitioning the global energy dependence from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. While electrocatalytic reactions have been used for several decades, recently, there is a growing interest in electrocat...
Electro-oxidation of ammonia has emerged as a promising route for sustainable energy conversion and pollutant mitigation. In this study, we report the facile fabrication of dendritic Cu@Pt core–shell nanostructures electrodeposited on pencil gr...
of 22