Deep eutectic solvent-induced synthesis of Ni–Fe catalyst with excellent mass activity and stability for water oxidation
June 2023
Ni–Fe bimetallic electrodes are currently recognized as a kind of benchmark transition metal-based oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts. Facile synthesis of Ni–Fe bimetallic electrode materials...
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A fast and in-depth self-reconstruction of anion ligands optimized CoFe-based pre-catalysts for water oxidation
June 2023
The design of efficient and robust non-precious metal electrocatalysts towards oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great value for developing green energy technologies. The in-situ formed high-valence...
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Oxygen vacancy defects engineering on Cu-doped Co3O4 for promoting effective COS hydrolysis
June 2023
The activation of H2O is a key step of the COS hydrolysis, which may be tuned by oxygen vacancy defects in the catalysts. Herein, we have introduced Cu into Co3O4 to regulate the oxygen vacancy defect...
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Are Ni/ and Ni5Fe1/biochar catalysts suitable for synthetic natural gas production? A comparison with γ-Al2O3 supported catalysts
June 2023
Among challenges implicit in the transition to the post–fossil fuel energetic model, the finite amount of resources available for the technological implementation of CO2 revalorizing processes arises...
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Enhanced hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived anisole to arenes catalyzed by Mn-doped Cu/Al2O3
June 2023
Lignin is a renewable carbon resource to produce arenes due to its abundant aromatic structures. For the liquid-phase hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) based on metallic catalysts, the preservation of aromatic...
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Electrodeposited 3D hierarchical NiFe microflowers assembled from nanosheets robust for the selective electrooxidation of furfuryl alcohol
June 2023
A robust and green strategy for the selective upgrading of biomass-derived platform chemicals towards highly valuable products is important for the sustainable development. Herein, the efficient electrocatalytic...
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Auδ−–Ov–Ti3+: Active site of MOx-Au/TiO2 catalysts for the aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
June 2023
Despite wide applications of noble metal-based catalysts in 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) oxidation, promoting the catalytic performance at low loading amounts still remains a significant challenge....
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Tuning the selectivity of natural oils and fatty acids/esters deoxygenation to biofuels and fatty alcohols: A review
June 2023
The chemical transformation of natural oils provides alternatives to limited fossil fuels and produces compounds with added value for the chemical industries. The selective deoxygenation of natural...
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Towards a molecular understanding of the electronic metal-support interaction (EMSI) in heterogeneous catalysis
June 2023
Tailoring the electronic metal-support interaction (EMSI) has attracted considerable interests as one of the most efficient approaches to improve both the activity and stability of metal catalysts in...
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Application of metal organic framework in wastewater treatment
June 2023
Water pollution is an increasingly serious environmental problem because many pollutants have carcinogenic effects on humans and aquatic organisms. Metal organic framework (MOF), made up of metal ions...
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Synthesis of MgO-doped ordered mesoporous carbons by Mg2+-tannin coordination for efficient isomerization of glucose to fructose
June 2023
In-situ MgO-doped ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC@MgO) was fabricated by formaldehyde-free self-assembly method, in which biomass-derived tannin was used as carbon precursor replacing fossil-based phenolics,...
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Aluminum-air battery with cotton substrate: Controlling the discharge capacity by electrolyte pre-deposition
June 2023
Conventional Al-air battery has many disadvantages for miniwatt applications, such as the complex water management, bulky electrolyte storage and potential leakage hazard. Moreover, the self-corrosion...
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MOF-derived Zn–Co–Ni sulfides with hollow nanosword arrays for high-efficiency overall water and urea electrolysis
June 2023
Water electrolysis is a promising technology to produce hydrogen but it was severely restricted by the slow oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, we firstly reported an advanced electrocatalyst of...
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Silk nanofibril as nanobinder for preparing COF nanosheet-based proton exchange membrane
June 2023
Two-dimensional covalent organic framework nanosheets (CONs) with ultrathin thickness and porous crystalline nature show substantial potential as novel membrane materials. However, bringing CONs materials...
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A purely green approach to low-cost mass production of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks
June 2023
Although zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have bright prospects in wide fields like gas storage/separation, catalysis and medicine, etc., their large-scale applications are bottlenecked by the...
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Recent advancement and future challenges of photothermal catalysis for VOCs elimination: From catalyst design to applications
June 2023
Photothermal catalysis realizes the synergistic effect of solar energy and thermochemistry, which also has the potential to improve the reaction rate and optimize the selectivity. In this review, the...
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Advances in particulate matter filtration: Materials, performance, and application
June 2023
Air-borne pollutants in particulate matter (PM) form, produced either physically during industrial processes or certain biological routes, have posed a great threat to human health. Particularly during...
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CoSnO3/C nanocubes with oxygen vacancy as high-capacity cathode materials for rechargeable aluminum batteries
June 2023
Rechargeable aluminum batteries (RABs) are attractive cadidates for next-generation energy storage and conversion, due to the low cost and high safety of Al resources, and high capacity of metal Al...
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Heterostructuring noble-metal-free 1T' phase MoS2 with g-C3N4 hollow nanocages to improve the photocatalytic H2 evolution activity
June 2023
In this work, we report the preparation of 1T'-MoS2/g-C3N4 nanocage (NC) heterostructure by loading 2D semi-metal noble-metal-free 1T'-MoS2 on the g-C3N4 nanocages (NCs). DFT calculation and experimental...
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Imidazolium group prompted alkaline anion-exchange membrane with high performance for efficient electrochemical CO2 conversion
June 2023
Development of high-performance hydroxide-conductive membranes is a focus research subject owing to promising applications in electrochemical reduction of CO2 (eCO2RR). However, few satisfactory membranes...
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Plasma treated M1 MoVNbTeOx–CeO2 composite catalyst for improved performance of oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane
June 2023
High activity and productivity of MoVNbTeOx catalyst are challenging tasks in oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODHE) for industrial application. In this work, phase-pure M1 with 30 wt% CeO2 composite...
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Accelerated prediction of Cu-based single-atom alloy catalysts for CO2 reduction by machine learning
June 2023
Various strategies, including controls of morphology, oxidation state, defect, and doping, have been developed to improve the performance of Cu-based catalysts for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), generating...
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Advances of manganese-oxides-based catalysts for indoor formaldehyde removal
June 2023
Formaldehyde (HCHO) has been identified as one of the most common indoor pollutions nowadays. Manganese oxides (MnOx) are considered to be a promising catalytic material used in indoor HCHO oxidation...
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