TY - JOUR
T1 - Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis
T2 - An overview
AU - Zhai, Wenfang
AU - Sakthivel, Thangavel
AU - Chen, Fuyi
AU - Du, Chengfeng
AU - Yu, Hong
AU - Dai, Zhengfei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2021/12/21
Y1 - 2021/12/21
N2 - Given the critical demands on energy conversion, storage, and transportation, tremendous interest has been devoted to the field of material development related to energy harvesting, recently. As the only route towards energy utilization, the carriers with the characteristics of low carbon are regarded as the future choice, e.g., hydrogen and ammonia. To this end, electrocatalysis provides a green way to access these substances. However, the unfulfilled conversion efficiency is the bottleneck for practical application. In this review, the promising characteristics of amorphous materials and the amorphous-induced electrocatalytic enhancement (AIEE) were emphasized. In the beginning, the characteristics of amorphous materials are briefly summarized. The basic mechanism of heterogeneous electrocatalytic reactions is illustrated, including the hydrogen/oxygen evolution and oxygen/nitrogen reduction. In the third part, the electrocatalytic performance of amorphous materials is discussed in detail, and the mechanism of AIEE is highlighted. In the last section of this review, the challenges and outlook for the development of amorphous enhanced electrocatalysis are presented.
AB - Given the critical demands on energy conversion, storage, and transportation, tremendous interest has been devoted to the field of material development related to energy harvesting, recently. As the only route towards energy utilization, the carriers with the characteristics of low carbon are regarded as the future choice, e.g., hydrogen and ammonia. To this end, electrocatalysis provides a green way to access these substances. However, the unfulfilled conversion efficiency is the bottleneck for practical application. In this review, the promising characteristics of amorphous materials and the amorphous-induced electrocatalytic enhancement (AIEE) were emphasized. In the beginning, the characteristics of amorphous materials are briefly summarized. The basic mechanism of heterogeneous electrocatalytic reactions is illustrated, including the hydrogen/oxygen evolution and oxygen/nitrogen reduction. In the third part, the electrocatalytic performance of amorphous materials is discussed in detail, and the mechanism of AIEE is highlighted. In the last section of this review, the challenges and outlook for the development of amorphous enhanced electrocatalysis are presented.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85121448592
U2 - 10.1039/d1nr06764h
DO - 10.1039/d1nr06764h
M3 - 文献综述
C2 - 34846414
AN - SCOPUS:85121448592
SN - 2040-3364
VL - 13
SP - 19783
EP - 19811
JO - Nanoscale
JF - Nanoscale
IS - 47
ER -