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Engineering the d-Orbital Electronic Delocalization of Atomic Fe–Co Dual-Metal Sites through Fe3C Nanoparticle Integration to Enhance Oxygen Reduction

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Boosting the Performance and Durability of Fe–N–C Fuel Cell Catalysts via Integrating Mo2C Clusters

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Yolk-shell structured ultra-small Fe3C nanoparticles encapsulated in S, N-codoped porous carbon as effective catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in microbial fuel cells

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Enhanced bifunctional oxygen electrochemical catalytic performance using Fe-doped NiCo2S4 spinel confined by porous carbon sponge for zinc-air batteries

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Unraveling the Synergistic Effect of Hollow Sea Urchin-like Ag–Co3O4 Heterostructures in Electrochemical Dehydrogenation Reactions: Interface-Enhanced Electron Transfer and Desorption Process

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Porous Carbon‐Supported Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

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Electronic structure regulation of Fe3C neighbored Fe-N4 ensembles enables optimized redox-cascade electrocatalysis for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

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Nano–Confinement Construction of FeCo@NCNTs nanocomposite for pH–Universal Oxygen Reduction Catalysis and High–power Zn–air battery

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Installation of metal clusters adjacent to dual-Fe sites for enhanced oxygen reduction

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Discriminative Peroxymonosulfate Activation on Iron Carbides for Redox‐Neutral Singlet Oxygen Generation

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Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Single‐Atom Catalysts by Structure Tuning

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Discriminative Peroxymonosulfate Activation on Iron Carbides for Redox‐Neutral Singlet Oxygen Generation

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Machine learning-assisted design of flow fields for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

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P‐Doping Modulated RuIr Nanoparticles Anchored on Co/N/C Catalysts with Improved Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Activity and Stability

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Optimizing the Coordination Energy of Co‐Nx Sites by Co Nanoparticles Integrated with Fe‐NCNTs for Boosting PEMFC and Zn‐Air Battery Performance

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A Universal Strategy to Enhance Polarization Performance and Anode Reversal Tolerance by Polyaniline‐Coated Carbon Support for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

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Pyrolysis‐Mediated Polycyano Strategy for Directed Construction of Fe3C‐Synergized Fe─N Carbon Nanotubes Heterostructure Toward High‐Efficiency Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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Atmosphere‐Regulated Pyrolysis Switches ORR Pathway on Iron‐Based Catalyst for H2O2 Synthesis and Zn‐Air Batteries

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Integrated Two‐in‐one Strategy for Efficient Neutral Hydrogen Peroxide Electrosynthesis via Phosphorous Doping in 2D Mesoporous Carbon Carriers

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Optimization of hollow Pt-Ni alloy bifunctional electrocatalysts via ethylene glycol/glycerol ratio in modified polyol process

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Creation of High‐Speed Carrier Migration Channel through Sulfur‐Modulated ZnSn(OH)6 Electric Fields for Deep Oxidation of C─H Bonds

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Oxygen-deficient VOx integrated cobalt‑nitrogen codoped carbon emerging as a sustainable bifunctional catalyst for efficient zinc–air batteries

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Synergistic promotion effects of hierarchical NiS/neodymium–doped CoS2 interfaces-supported NC for high-performance water-splitting and zinc–air batteries

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Hard Lewis acid induced chloride repulsion for durable neutral seawater electrolysis

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Recyclable molten salt-assisted synthesis of Fe@Fe3C surface anchored FeZnNC hierarchical composite for oxygen reduction reaction

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