Themed collection Virtual Collections—Electrocatalysis

Achieving single-atom dispersion of metal active components remains daunting. Here, we summarized several key synthesis methods and applications of high-loading SACs, hoping to highlight important research areas for future development.

Three approaches for enhancing OER activity and selectivity for hydrogen production in seawater electrolysis.

The recent progress in multicomponent catalyst design for CO₂/N₂/NO_x electroreduction is summarized from three models.

Molten salt electrochemical system towards carbon deposition.

This review discusses the recent advances in the field of the Li-mediated electrocatalytic dinitrogen reduction reaction along with the latest insights into the proposed catalytic mechanisms, electrocatalysts, and electrolytes.

This review discusses the OER reaction mechanism (AEM and LOM) and the research progress of MnO₂-based OER catalysts. The optimization strategy of MnO₂-based catalysts was summarized.

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have great potential to become the next generation green energy technique, but its application is limited by the slow kinetics of the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in acidic medium.

Recent progress of metal–organic framework (MOF) based catalysts in the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction, hydrogen oxidation reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, oxygen reduction reaction and nitrogen reduction reaction is summarized.

In situ PM-IRRAS provides information about the reaction products of ammonia electrooxidation on the surface of Pt/C nanoparticles and in the bulk of electrolyte.

HER electrocatalysts were synthesized starting from metal-phthalocyanine. The higher pyrolysis temperature is beneficial and associated with the formation of nanoparticles. The addition of the second and third metal is also beneficial for HER.

A three-dimensional carbon nanofiber (CNF) with a high graphitization degree was fabricated via high temperature treatment of polyaniline network. The CNF-1200 used as platinum-based catalyst ORR support exhibited excellent corrosion resistance.