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Advancements on metal oxide semiconductor photocatalysts in photo-electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels and other useful products
Due to its fascinating and tunable optoelectronic properties, semiconductor nanomaterials are the best choices for multidisciplinary applications. Particularly, the use of semiconductor photocatalysts is one o...
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Emerging Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters and Ultrasmall Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrochemical Energy Catalysis: Synthesis Strategies and Surface/Interface Engineering
Atomically precise metal nanocluster and ultrasmall nanoparticle catalysts have garnered significant interest in electrocatalysis applications due to their unique geometric and electronic structures. As an int...
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Open AccessEngineering Fe-N4 Electronic Structure with Adjacent Co-N2C2 and Co Nanoclusters on Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis
Engineering Fe-N4 electronic structure with adjacent Co-N2C2 and Co sub-nanoclusters to optimize the electronic structure of the Fe-N4 active center is first demonstrated.
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Rational design from embedded chaos
Incorporating single atoms into carbon-based catalysts is shown to disrupt their crystal symmetry in a way that improves their catalytic activity. The discovery here could offer a generalized approach for the ...
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Hybrid Semiconductor Photocatalyst Nanomaterials in CO2 Reduction and Storage Applications
CO2 not only decreases environmental pollution but also generates useful fuel chemicals, which provides a possible solution to the CO2 emission and energy crises. The main challenge is the of the photocata...
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Simultaneous heterostructure engineering and Mn do** modulation of Ni2P nanosheet arrays for enhanced electrocatalytic water splitting
Efficient, low-cost, and stable electrocatalysts for water splitting are highly desirable. Herein, three-dimensional (3D) Ni2P nanosheet arrays were fabricated and simultaneously modulated by heterostructure engi...
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Open AccessInterface Engineering of NixSy@MnOxHy Nanorods to Efficiently Enhance Overall-Water-Splitting Activity and Stability
Three-dimensional (3D) core‐shell heterostructured NixSy@MnOxHy nanorods grown on nickel foam (NixSy@MnOxHy/NF) were successfully fabricated via a si...
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Transcriptomic Analysis of Hepatotoxicology of Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Exposed to Environmentally Relevant Oxytetracycline
The extensive use of the broad-spectrum antibiotics like oxytetracycline (OTC) has become a serious environmental issue globally. OTC has profound negative effects on aquatic organisms including fishes. In thi...
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Open AccessAtomically Dispersed Transition Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Zinc-Air Batteries: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
General principles for designing atomically dispersed metal-nitrogen-carbon (M–N-C) are briefly reviewed.
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Open AccessAtomically Dispersed Fe-Co Bimetallic Catalysts for the Promoted Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results confirmed the increased number of M–N sites in the bimetallic Fe–Co catalyst.
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Open AccessProton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Cathode
Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells have gained increasing interest from academia and industry, due to its remarkable advantages including high efficiency, high energy density, high power density, and fa...
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Open AccessSingle-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
All the important single-atom catalysts (SACs) synthetic strategies, such as wet-chemistry method, atomic layer deposition, metal–organic framework-d...
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Open AccessSingle-atom Catalysis Using Pt/Graphene Achieved through Atomic Layer Deposition
Platinum-nanoparticle-based catalysts are widely used in many important chemical processes and automobile industries. Downsizing catalyst nanoparticles to single atoms is highly desirable to maximize their use...
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Open AccessPorous Dendritic Platinum Nanotubes with Extremely High Activity and Stability for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Controlling the morphology of Pt nanostructures can provide opportunities to greatly increase their activity and stability. Porous dendritic Pt nanotubes were successfully synthesized by a facile, cost-effecti...
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A non-cyclic baboon θ-defensin derivative exhibiting antimicrobial activity against the phytopathogen Verticillium dahliae
θ-Defensins are the only natural cyclic proteins found in primates. They have strong antimicrobial activity related to their trisulfide ladders and macrocyclic conformation. A non-cyclic baboon θ-defensin (BTD...
