Issue 47, 2021

Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis: an overview

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis: an overview

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
13 oct. 2021
Accepted
15 nov. 2021
First published
15 nov. 2021

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 19783-19811

Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis: an overview

W. Zhai, T. Sakthivel, F. Chen, C. Du, H. Yu and Z. Dai, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 19783 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06764H

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