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Sulfonated carbon dots modified IrO2 nanosheet as durable and high-efficient electrocatalyst for boosting acidic oxygen evolution reaction
Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a crucial role in develo** energy conversion and adjusting electronic structure of the electrocatalysts can effectively improve the catalytic activity and stability. How...
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In-situ study of the hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in seawater on carbon dot-based metal-free catalyst under operation condition
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) photoproduction in seawater with metal-free photocatalysts derived from biomass materials is a green, sustainable, and ultra environmentally friendly way. However, most photocatalysts are...
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Open AccessStable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide
The oxygen evolution reactions in acid play an important role in multiple energy storage devices. The practical promising Ru-Ir based catalysts need both the stable high oxidation state of the Ru centers and t...
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Open AccessIridium oxide nanoribbons with metastable monoclinic phase for highly efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
Metastable metal oxides with ribbon morphologies have promising applications for energy conversion catalysis, however they are largely restricted by their limited synthesis methods. In this study, a monoclinic...
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Open AccessCoupling of nanocrystal hexagonal array and two-dimensional metastable substrate boosts H2-production
Designing well-ordered nanocrystal arrays with subnanometre distances can provide promising materials for future nanoscale applications. However, the fabrication of aligned arrays with controllable accuracy in...
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Highly crystalline core dominated the catalytic performance of carbon dot for cyclohexane to adipic acid reaction
Carbon dots (CDs) have uniquely structural, physicochemical and photochemical properties, suggesting a promising platform for catalysis applications. The in-depth understanding of the structure-activity relati...
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Highly efficient metal-free catalyst from cellulose for hydrogen peroxide photoproduction instructed by machine learning and transient photovoltage technology
Great attention has been paid to green procedures and technologies for the design of environmental catalytic systems. Biomass-derived catalysts represent one of the greener alternatives for green catalysis. Ph...
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In-situ transient photovoltage study on interface electron transfer regulation of carbon dots/NiCo2O4 photocatalyst for the enhanced overall water splitting activity
Photocatalytic hydrogen production by overall water solar-splitting is a prospective strategy to solve energy crisis. However, the rapid recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs deeply restricts pho...
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Carbon dots modified Ti3C2Tx-based fibrous supercapacitor with photo-enhanced capacitance
The energy crisis has always been a widely concerned problem. It is an urgent need for green and renewable energy technologies to achieve sustainable development, and the photo-assisted charging energy storage...
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Open AccessIridium metallene oxide for acidic oxygen evolution catalysis
Exploring new materials is essential in the field of material science. Especially, searching for optimal materials with utmost atomic utilization, ideal activities and desirable stability for catalytic applica...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: A metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21490-z
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Open AccessA metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater
Artificial photosynthesis of H2O2 from H2O and O2, as a spotless method, has aroused widespread interest. Up to date, most photocatalysts still suffer from serious salt-deactivated effects with huge consumption o...
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A photoactive process cascaded electrocatalysis for enhanced methanol oxidation over Pt-MXene-TiO2 composite
Highly efficient photo-assisted electrocatalysis for methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) realizes the conversion of solar and chemical energy into electric energy simultaneously. Here we report a Pt-MXene-TiO2 comp...
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Sulfhydryl-functionalized carbon dots modified ball cactus-like Au composites facilitating the electrocatalytic ethanol oxidation through adsorption effect
Direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs) are considered as the ideal green power suppliers because of high energy density and non-toxicity of ethanol. Here the ball cactus-like gold (Au) particles reduced by hydrogen...
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A stepwise-designed Rh-Au-Si nanocomposite that surpasses Pt/C hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
Hydrogen evolution by electrocatalysis is an attractive method of supplying clean energy. However, it is challenging to find cheap and efficient alternatives to rare and expensive platinum based catalysts. Pt ...
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Open AccessThe Surface Polarized Graphene Oxide Quantum Dot Films for Flexible Nanogenerators
Abundant disorderly-distributed surface functional groups, such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, ether and amino groups, endow an isolated graphene oxide quantum dot (GOQD) the polar property due to the symmetry breakin...
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Open AccessA rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorption energy o...
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Bi-functional Au/FeS (Au/Co3O4) composite for in situ SERS monitoring and degradation of organic pollutants
The bi-functional Au/FeS (Au/Co3O4) composite was fabricated by in situ reducing Au nanoparticles onto the surface of FeS (Co3O4). The as-prepared FeS possessed a multi-structure composed of plenty of nanoplates,...
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Silicon nanowires: applications in catalysis with distinctive surface property
Over the last few years, silicon nanowires (SiNWs) have come under intensive researches due to their electrical, optical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties. On account of their large surface-to-volu...
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Open AccessSmart Liquid SERS Substrates based on Fe3O4/Au Nanoparticles with Reversibly Tunable Enhancement Factor for Practical Quantitative Detection
There is a strong correlation between the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factor (EF), the excitation wavelength and the feature properties (composition, size, geometry and analytes). The ...
