Defect engineering in earth-abundant electrocatalysts for CO2 and N2 reduction

The electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CRR) and N2 reduction reaction (NRR), which convert inert small molecules into high-value products under mild conditions, have received much research attention.

[1]  M. Koper,et al.  Nitrogen cycle electrocatalysis. , 2009, Chemical reviews.

[2]  Gui Yu,et al.  Synthesis of N-doped graphene by chemical vapor deposition and its electrical properties. , 2009, Nano letters.

[3]  Yi Cui,et al.  Toward N-Doped Graphene via Solvothermal Synthesis , 2011 .

[4]  F. Wei,et al.  An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube-graphene complexes. , 2012, Nature nanotechnology.

[5]  G. Gary Wang,et al.  Hydrogen-treated WO3 nanoflakes show enhanced photostability , 2012 .

[6]  Matthew W. Kanan,et al.  Aqueous CO2 reduction at very low overpotential on oxide-derived Au nanoparticles. , 2012, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[7]  Dean J. Miller,et al.  Ambient-stable tetragonal phase in silver nanostructures , 2012, Nature Communications.

[8]  Haifeng Lv,et al.  Monodisperse Au nanoparticles for selective electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO. , 2013, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[9]  X. Lou,et al.  Defect‐Rich MoS2 Ultrathin Nanosheets with Additional Active Edge Sites for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution , 2013, Advanced materials.

[10]  Haiyan Wang,et al.  Nickel cobalt oxide/carbon nanotubes hybrid as a high-performance electrocatalyst for metal/air battery. , 2014, Nanoscale.

[11]  Yu Huang,et al.  Holey graphene frameworks for highly efficient capacitive energy storage , 2014, Nature Communications.

[12]  Peter Strasser,et al.  Particle size effects in the catalytic electroreduction of CO₂ on Cu nanoparticles. , 2014, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[13]  Chong Xiao,et al.  Low overpotential in vacancy-rich ultrathin CoSe2 nanosheets for water oxidation. , 2014, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[14]  Matthew W. Kanan,et al.  Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper , 2014, Nature.

[15]  L. Dai,et al.  Oxygen reduction reaction in a droplet on graphite: direct evidence that the edge is more active than the basal plane. , 2014, Angewandte Chemie.

[16]  Karen Chan,et al.  Molybdenum Sulfides and Selenides as Possible Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction , 2014 .

[17]  P. Král,et al.  Robust carbon dioxide reduction on molybdenum disulphide edges , 2014, Nature Communications.

[18]  Yao Zheng,et al.  Hydrogen evolution by a metal-free electrocatalyst , 2014, Nature Communications.

[19]  Qiang Zhang,et al.  Spatially Confined Hybridization of Nanometer‐Sized NiFe Hydroxides into Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene Frameworks Leading to Superior Oxygen Evolution Reactivity , 2015, Advanced materials.

[20]  X. Duan,et al.  Solution Processable Holey Graphene Oxide and Its Derived Macrostructures for High-Performance Supercapacitors. , 2015, Nano letters.

[21]  Jiao Deng,et al.  Triggering the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of the inert two-dimensional MoS2 surface via single-atom metal doping , 2015 .

[22]  P. Ajayan,et al.  Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Arrays for High-Efficiency Electrochemical Reduction of CO2: On the Understanding of Defects, Defect Density, and Selectivity. , 2015, Angewandte Chemie.

[23]  Shoushan Fan,et al.  Grain-boundary-dependent CO2 electroreduction activity. , 2015, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[24]  X. Bao,et al.  Size-dependent electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 over Pd nanoparticles. , 2015, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[25]  Y. Lei,et al.  Three-dimensional (3D) interconnected networks fabricated via in-situ growth of N-doped graphene/carbon nanotubes on Co-containing carbon nanofibers for enhanced oxygen reduction , 2016, Nano Research.

[26]  K. Sailaja,et al.  Metal-free boron-doped graphene for selective electroreduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid/formate. , 2015, Chemical communications.

[27]  Xiuling Li,et al.  Gram-Scale Aqueous Synthesis of Stable Few-Layered 1T-MoS2 : Applications for Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. , 2015, Small.

[28]  Chao Wang,et al.  Highly Dense Cu Nanowires for Low-Overpotential CO2 Reduction. , 2015, Nano letters.

[29]  Y. Surendranath,et al.  Mesostructure-Induced Selectivity in CO2 Reduction Catalysis. , 2015, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[30]  Jin Zhao,et al.  Significant Contribution of Intrinsic Carbon Defects to Oxygen Reduction Activity , 2015 .

[31]  M. Kanatzidis,et al.  Understanding Bulk Defects in Topological Insulators from Nuclear‐Spin Interactions , 2015, 1506.06338.

[32]  L. Dai,et al.  Carbon-based electrocatalysts for advanced energy conversion and storage , 2015, Science Advances.

[33]  M. Jaroniec,et al.  Porous C3N4 nanolayers@N-graphene films as catalyst electrodes for highly efficient hydrogen evolution. , 2015, ACS nano.

[34]  Younes Abghoui,et al.  Transition Metal Nitride Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia at Ambient Conditions , 2015, ICCS.

[35]  P. Ajayan,et al.  Incorporation of Nitrogen Defects for Efficient Reduction of CO2 via Two-Electron Pathway on Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam. , 2016, Nano letters.

[36]  Robert Vajtai,et al.  Defects Engineered Monolayer MoS2 for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. , 2016, Nano letters.

[37]  E. Stach,et al.  Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene , 2016, Nature Communications.

[38]  Charlie Tsai,et al.  Activating and optimizing MoS2 basal planes for hydrogen evolution through the formation of strained sulphur vacancies. , 2016, Nature materials.

[39]  Jinlan Wang,et al.  Activating Inert Basal Planes of MoS2 for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through the Formation of Different Intrinsic Defects , 2016 .

[40]  Hong Wang,et al.  N-doped graphene grown on silk cocoon-derived interconnected carbon fibers for oxygen reduction reaction and photocatalytic hydrogen production , 2016, Nano Research.

[41]  Jinlong Gong,et al.  CO2 photo-reduction: insights into CO2 activation and reaction on surfaces of photocatalysts , 2016 .

[42]  Dusan Strmcnik,et al.  Energy and fuels from electrochemical interfaces. , 2016, Nature materials.

[43]  S. Qiao,et al.  Recent Advances in Inorganic Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for Reduction of Carbon Dioxide , 2016, Advanced materials.

[44]  Yi Luo,et al.  Single‐Atom Pt as Co‐Catalyst for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Evolution , 2016, Advanced materials.

[45]  Charlie Tsai,et al.  How Doped MoS2 Breaks Transition-Metal Scaling Relations for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction , 2016 .

[46]  K. Jiang,et al.  A Direct Grain-Boundary-Activity Correlation for CO Electroreduction on Cu Nanoparticles , 2016, ACS central science.

[47]  Youyong Li,et al.  The Synergy between Metal Facet and Oxide Support Facet for Enhanced Catalytic Performance: The Case of Pd-TiO2. , 2016, Nano letters.

[48]  L. Dai,et al.  Edge-rich and dopant-free graphene as a highly efficient metal-free electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction. , 2016, Chemical communications.

[49]  Zhian Zhang,et al.  Synergistically enhanced activity of graphene quantum dots/graphene hydrogel composites: a novel all-carbon hybrid electrocatalyst for metal/air batteries. , 2016, Nanoscale.

[50]  Chong Xiao,et al.  Defect Chemistry for Thermoelectric Materials. , 2016, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[51]  Yi Cui,et al.  The path towards sustainable energy. , 2016, Nature materials.

[52]  Sachin Chavan,et al.  Defect Engineering: Tuning the Porosity and Composition of the Metal–Organic Framework UiO-66 via Modulated Synthesis , 2016 .

[53]  L. Dai,et al.  Plasma-Engraved Co3 O4 Nanosheets with Oxygen Vacancies and High Surface Area for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. , 2016, Angewandte Chemie.

[54]  F. Jiao,et al.  Electrochemical CO2 reduction: Electrocatalyst, reaction mechanism, and process engineering , 2016 .

[55]  Mohammad Asadi,et al.  Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction in ionic liquid , 2016, Science.

[56]  Chong Xiao,et al.  Vacancy Engineering for Tuning Electron and Phonon Structures of Two‐Dimensional Materials , 2016 .

[57]  P. Ajayan,et al.  A metal-free electrocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to multi-carbon hydrocarbons and oxygenates , 2016, Nature Communications.

[58]  Christopher L. Brown,et al.  Defect Graphene as a Trifunctional Catalyst for Electrochemical Reactions , 2016, Advanced materials.

[59]  Yi Xie,et al.  Ultrathin Co3O4 Layers Realizing Optimized CO2 Electroreduction to Formate. , 2016, Angewandte Chemie.

[60]  Tingzheng Hou,et al.  Topological Defects in Metal‐Free Nanocarbon for Oxygen Electrocatalysis , 2016, Advanced materials.

[61]  Xiaodong Zhuang,et al.  Interface Engineering of MoS2 /Ni3 S2 Heterostructures for Highly Enhanced Electrochemical Overall-Water-Splitting Activity. , 2016, Angewandte Chemie.

[62]  B. Liu,et al.  Identification of catalytic sites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in N-doped graphene materials: Development of highly efficient metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst , 2016, Science Advances.

[63]  D. Macfarlane,et al.  Towards a better Sn: Efficient electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to formate by Sn/SnS2 derived from SnS2 nanosheets , 2017 .

[64]  Geoffrey I N Waterhouse,et al.  Defect‐Engineered Ultrathin δ‐MnO2 Nanosheet Arrays as Bifunctional Electrodes for Efficient Overall Water Splitting , 2017 .

[65]  S. Dou,et al.  Metal‐Free Carbon Materials for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction , 2017, Advanced materials.

[66]  Joshua M. Spurgeon,et al.  Reduced SnO2 Porous Nanowires with a High Density of Grain Boundaries as Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical CO2 -into-HCOOH Conversion. , 2017, Angewandte Chemie.

[67]  Jun-min Yan,et al.  Au Sub‐Nanoclusters on TiO2 toward Highly Efficient and Selective Electrocatalyst for N2 Conversion to NH3 at Ambient Conditions , 2017, Advanced materials.

[68]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Selective Etching of Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon by Steam for Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction , 2017 .

[69]  Chang Won Yoon,et al.  Electrochemical Synthesis of NH3 at Low Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure Using a γ-Fe2O3 Catalyst , 2017 .

[70]  Shaohua Shen,et al.  Filling the oxygen vacancies in Co3O4 with phosphorus: an ultra-efficient electrocatalyst for overall water splitting , 2017 .

[71]  Michael K.H. Leung,et al.  Engineering stepped edge surface structures of MoS2 sheet stacks to accelerate the hydrogen evolution reaction , 2017 .

[72]  Charlie Tsai,et al.  Electrochemical generation of sulfur vacancies in the basal plane of MoS2 for hydrogen evolution , 2017, Nature Communications.

[73]  Stefan Kaskel,et al.  Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2 , 2017, Nature Communications.

[74]  M. Fontecave,et al.  Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Fe-N-C Materials: A Structure–Selectivity Study , 2017 .

[75]  Lehui Lu,et al.  Transition metal–nitrogen–carbon nanostructured catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction: From mechanistic insights to structural optimization , 2017, Nano Research.

[76]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Tuning of CO2 Reduction Selectivity on Metal Electrocatalysts. , 2017, Small.

[77]  Y. Jiao,et al.  Molecule-Level g-C3N4 Coordinated Transition Metals as a New Class of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Electrode Reactions. , 2017, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[78]  Yadong Li,et al.  Ionic Exchange of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Access Single Nickel Sites for Efficient Electroreduction of CO2. , 2017, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[79]  S. Qiao,et al.  3D Synergistically Active Carbon Nanofibers for Improved Oxygen Evolution , 2017 .

[80]  F. Kang,et al.  Noble‐Metal‐Free Hybrid Membranes for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution , 2017, Advanced materials.

[81]  L. Dai,et al.  Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious‐Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions , 2017, Advanced materials.

[82]  P. Midgley,et al.  Stabilization of Single Metal Atoms on Graphitic Carbon Nitride , 2017 .

[83]  L. Dai,et al.  A general approach to cobalt-based homobimetallic phosphide ultrathin nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution in alkaline media , 2017 .

[84]  Shaojun Guo,et al.  Strain-controlled electrocatalysis on multimetallic nanomaterials , 2017 .

[85]  D. Macfarlane,et al.  Hierarchical Mesoporous SnO2 Nanosheets on Carbon Cloth: A Robust and Flexible Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction with High Efficiency and Selectivity. , 2017, Angewandte Chemie.

[86]  Haotian Wang,et al.  Li Electrochemical Tuning of Metal Oxide for Highly Selective CO2 Reduction. , 2017, ACS nano.

[87]  Colin F. Dickens,et al.  Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design , 2017, Science.

[88]  S. Qiao,et al.  Carbon Solving Carbon's Problems: Recent Progress of Nanostructured Carbon‐Based Catalysts for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 , 2017 .

[89]  Xu Xu,et al.  Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage , 2017, Science.

[90]  Haotian Wang,et al.  Theoretical Investigations into Defected Graphene for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 , 2017 .

[91]  C. Jin,et al.  Atomic Defects in Two‐Dimensional Materials: From Single‐Atom Spectroscopy to Functionalities in Opto‐/Electronics, Nanomagnetism, and Catalysis , 2017, Advanced materials.

[92]  Wei Liu,et al.  Partially Delocalized Charge in MoSeS Alloy Monolayers Enabling Boosted CO2 Electroreduction into Syngas , 2017 .

[93]  W. Chu,et al.  Exclusive Ni-N4 Sites Realize Near-Unity CO Selectivity for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. , 2017, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[94]  Claudio Ampelli,et al.  Room-Temperature Electrocatalytic Synthesis of NH3 from H2O and N2 in a Gas–Liquid–Solid Three-Phase Reactor , 2017 .

[95]  Qiang Zhang,et al.  Nanocarbon for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis: Dopants, Edges, and Defects , 2017, Advanced materials.

[96]  M. Kanan,et al.  Selective increase in CO2 electroreduction activity at grain-boundary surface terminations , 2017, Science.

[97]  S. Qiao,et al.  Surface and Interface Engineering of Noble-Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Efficient Energy Conversion Processes. , 2017, Accounts of chemical research.

[98]  J. Xiang,et al.  Architecture of CoNx single clusters on nanocarbon as excellent oxygen reduction catalysts with high-efficient atomic utilization. , 2017, Nanoscale.

[99]  Ze Yang,et al.  Hydrogen substituted graphdiyne as carbon-rich flexible electrode for lithium and sodium ion batteries , 2017, Nature Communications.

[100]  Jinghua Wu,et al.  CO2 Reduction: From the Electrochemical to Photochemical Approach , 2017, Advanced science.

[101]  Joonwon Lim,et al.  Nitrogen Dopants in Carbon Nanomaterials: Defects or a New Opportunity? , 2017 .

[102]  Yat Li,et al.  Oxygen defective metal oxides for energy conversion and storage , 2017 .

[103]  L. Curtiss,et al.  Tailoring the Edge Structure of Molybdenum Disulfide toward Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. , 2017, ACS nano.

[104]  Q. Jiang,et al.  Amorphizing of Au Nanoparticles by CeOx–RGO Hybrid Support towards Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions , 2017, Advanced materials.

[105]  B. Wang,et al.  N‐Doped 3D Carbon Aerogel with Trace Fe as an Efficient Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction , 2017 .

[106]  Yu-Qing Yu,et al.  Enhancing Oxygen Evolution Reaction at High Current Densities on Amorphous‐Like Ni–Fe–S Ultrathin Nanosheets via Oxygen Incorporation and Electrochemical Tuning , 2016, Advanced science.

[107]  Fan Liao,et al.  RhMoS2 Nanocomposite Catalysts with Pt‐Like Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction , 2017 .

[108]  Yi Xie,et al.  Half‐Metallic Behavior in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nanosheets by Dual‐Native‐Defects Engineering , 2017, Advanced materials.

[109]  Xin-bo Zhang,et al.  Electrochemical Reduction of N2 under Ambient Conditions for Artificial N2 Fixation and Renewable Energy Storage Using N2/NH3 Cycle , 2017, Advanced materials.

[110]  J. Zou,et al.  A Heterostructure Coupling of Exfoliated Ni–Fe Hydroxide Nanosheet and Defective Graphene as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting , 2017, Advanced materials.

[111]  Yanyong Wang,et al.  Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets with Multiple Vacancies Obtained by Dry Exfoliation as Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts. , 2017, Angewandte Chemie.

[112]  Wei Liu,et al.  Atomic layer confined vacancies for atomic-level insights into carbon dioxide electroreduction , 2017, Nature Communications.

[113]  Qichen Wang,et al.  Facile synthesis of FeCo@NC core–shell nanospheres supported on graphene as an efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst , 2017, Nano Research.

[114]  Yadong Li,et al.  Defective molybdenum sulfide quantum dots as highly active hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts , 2018, Nano Research.

[115]  C. Guo,et al.  Nanostructured 2D Materials: Prospective Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction , 2017 .

[116]  Yao Zheng,et al.  Engineering High-Energy Interfacial Structures for High-Performance Oxygen-Involving Electrocatalysis. , 2017, Angewandte Chemie.

[117]  Jun Li,et al.  Toward Rational Design of Oxide-Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: Atomic Dispersion of Gold on Ceria. , 2017, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[118]  Michael B. Ross,et al.  Structure-Sensitive CO2 Electroreduction to Hydrocarbons on Ultrathin 5-fold Twinned Copper Nanowires. , 2017, Nano letters.

[119]  Li Wei,et al.  Amorphous Bimetallic Oxide–Graphene Hybrids as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zn–Air Batteries , 2017, Advanced materials.

[120]  Jingxiang Zhao,et al.  Single Mo Atom Supported on Defective Boron Nitride Monolayer as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation: A Computational Study. , 2017, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[121]  Hiang Kwee Lee,et al.  Favoring the unfavored: Selective electrochemical nitrogen fixation using a reticular chemistry approach , 2018, Science Advances.

[122]  Xuping Sun,et al.  MoO3 nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic N2 fixation to NH3 , 2018 .

[123]  Xiaolin Zheng,et al.  Flame‐Engraved Nickel–Iron Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reactivity , 2018 .

[124]  Cheng Chen,et al.  Visualizing electronic structures of quantum materials by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy , 2018, Nature Reviews Materials.

[125]  Jinhua Ye,et al.  Nitrogen Fixation Reaction Derived from Nanostructured Catalytic Materials , 2018, Advanced Functional Materials.

[126]  Sean C. Smith,et al.  Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on a Mesoporous Carbon Catalyst with Progressively Removed Nitrogen Moieties , 2018, ACS Energy Letters.

[127]  D. Cullen,et al.  Unveiling Active Sites of CO2 Reduction on Nitrogen-Coordinated and Atomically Dispersed Iron and Cobalt Catalysts , 2018 .

[128]  Jinlan Wang,et al.  Chemically activating MoS2 via spontaneous atomic palladium interfacial doping towards efficient hydrogen evolution , 2018, Nature Communications.

[129]  Xuping Sun,et al.  Electrochemical N2 fixation to NH3 under ambient conditions: Mo2N nanorod as a highly efficient and selective catalyst. , 2018, Chemical communications.

[130]  Xiaofeng Feng,et al.  Ambient ammonia synthesis via palladium-catalyzed electrohydrogenation of dinitrogen at low overpotential , 2018, Nature Communications.

[131]  P. Midgley,et al.  Single-atom heterogeneous catalysts based on distinct carbon nitride scaffolds , 2018 .

[132]  R. Fischer,et al.  Defective Metal‐Organic Frameworks , 2018, Advanced materials.

[133]  N. Zheng,et al.  Strategies for Stabilizing Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts , 2018 .

[134]  Guoxiong Wang,et al.  Oxygen Vacancies in ZnO Nanosheets Enhance CO2 Electrochemical Reduction to CO. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[135]  Jie Zeng,et al.  Achieving the Widest Range of Syngas Proportions at High Current Density over Cadmium Sulfoselenide Nanorods in CO2 Electroreduction , 2018, Advanced materials.

[136]  Y. Xiong,et al.  Defect engineering in photocatalytic materials , 2018, Nano Energy.

[137]  Jun Jiang,et al.  Defective Carbon–CoP Nanoparticles Hybrids with Interfacial Charges Polarization for Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis , 2018 .

[138]  Design of Electrocatalysts and Electrochemical Cells for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactions , 2018 .

[139]  Qiang Xu,et al.  Hierarchical Cobalt Phosphide Hollow Nanocages toward Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis under Ambient Pressure and Room Temperature , 2018 .

[140]  Jun Chen,et al.  A Defect-Driven Metal-free Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Electrolyte , 2018, Chem.

[141]  Yadong Li,et al.  Defect Effects on TiO2 Nanosheets: Stabilizing Single Atomic Site Au and Promoting Catalytic Properties , 2018, Advanced materials.

[142]  Jun Chen,et al.  Defect electrocatalytic mechanism: concept, topological structure and perspective , 2018 .

[143]  Youyong Li,et al.  Pyridinic-N-Dominated Doped Defective Graphene as a Superior Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Ultrahigh-Energy-Density Zn–Air Batteries , 2018 .

[144]  D. Macfarlane,et al.  MoS2 Polymorphic Engineering Enhances Selectivity in the Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia , 2019, ACS Energy Letters.

[145]  C. Mou,et al.  Defective Mesocrystal ZnO-Supported Gold Catalysts: Facilitating CO Oxidation via Vacancy Defects in ZnO , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[146]  Chun‐Sing Lee,et al.  Iron Vacancies Induced Bifunctionality in Ultrathin Feroxyhyte Nanosheets for Overall Water Splitting , 2018, Advanced materials.

[147]  Shi-Zhang Qiao,et al.  Rational design of electrocatalysts and photo(electro)catalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia (NH3) under ambient conditions , 2018 .

[148]  Piaoping Yang,et al.  Formation of Enriched Vacancies for Enhanced CO2 Electrocatalytic Reduction over AuCu Alloys , 2018, ACS Energy Letters.

[149]  Yu Ding,et al.  An Amorphous Noble-Metal-Free Electrocatalyst that Enables Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[150]  X. Bao,et al.  Coordinatively unsaturated nickel–nitrogen sites towards selective and high-rate CO2 electroreduction , 2018 .

[151]  Jinlan Wang,et al.  Single Molybdenum Atom Anchored on N-Doped Carbon as a Promising Electrocatalyst for Nitrogen Reduction into Ammonia at Ambient Conditions , 2018, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

[152]  C. Maravelias,et al.  Greening Ammonia toward the Solar Ammonia Refinery , 2018, Joule.

[153]  Zhen Zhou,et al.  Heteroatom-doped carbon materials and their composites as electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction , 2018 .

[154]  Shuhong Yu,et al.  Doping-induced structural phase transition in cobalt diselenide enables enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis , 2018, Nature Communications.

[155]  D. Macfarlane,et al.  Rational Electrode–Electrolyte Design for Efficient Ammonia Electrosynthesis under Ambient Conditions , 2018 .

[156]  J. Rossmeisl,et al.  pH Effects on the Selectivity of the Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction on Graphene-Embedded Fe–N–C Motifs: Bridging Concepts between Molecular Homogeneous and Solid-State Heterogeneous Catalysis , 2018 .

[157]  Haihui Wang,et al.  Molybdenum Carbide Nanodots Enable Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions , 2018, Advanced materials.

[158]  Yadong Li,et al.  Design of Single-Atom Co-N5 Catalytic Site: A Robust Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction with Nearly 100% CO Selectivity and Remarkable Stability. , 2018, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[159]  M. Shao,et al.  Chromium Oxynitride Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia Under Ambient Conditions , 2018, Small Methods.

[160]  Jiayin Yuan,et al.  Ambient Electrosynthesis of Ammonia: Electrode Porosity and Composition Engineering. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[161]  Piaoping Yang,et al.  Low-Coordinated Edge Sites on Ultrathin Palladium Nanosheets Boost Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction Performance. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[162]  Yadong Li,et al.  Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction , 2018, Nature Communications.

[163]  Yadong Li,et al.  Atomically dispersed Au1 catalyst towards efficient electrochemical synthesis of ammonia. , 2018, Science bulletin.

[164]  W. Goddard,et al.  Defect-enriched iron fluoride-oxide nanoporous thin films bifunctional catalyst for water splitting , 2018, Nature Communications.

[165]  B. Wang,et al.  Fe/Fe3C@C nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped graphene–CNTs framework as an efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst for robust rechargeable Zn–air batteries , 2018 .

[166]  Q. Jiang,et al.  Single or Double: Which Is the Altar of Atomic Catalysts for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction? , 2018, Small Methods.

[167]  Jinlong Yang,et al.  Regulation of Coordination Number over Single Co Sites: Triggering the Efficient Electroreduction of CO2. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[168]  Chun‐Sing Lee,et al.  Unconventional Nickel Nitride Enriched with Nitrogen Vacancies as a High‐Efficiency Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution , 2018, Advanced science.

[169]  Y. Jiao,et al.  Constructing tunable dual active sites on two-dimensional C3N4@MoN hybrid for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution , 2018, Nano Energy.

[170]  Yu Huang,et al.  General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities , 2018, Nature Catalysis.

[171]  J. Rossmeisl,et al.  Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Carbon Monoxide Over Defect Rich Plasma-Activated Silver Catalysts , 2018 .

[172]  T. Doert,et al.  Front Cover: The Intermetalloid Cluster Cation (CuBi8)3+ (Chem. Eur. J. 1/2018) , 2018 .

[173]  J. Yao,et al.  Metal-Free Fluorine-Doped Carbon Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction Outcompeting Hydrogen Evolution. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[174]  Qiang Zhang,et al.  Multiscale Principles To Boost Reactivity in Gas-Involving Energy Electrocatalysis. , 2018, Accounts of Chemical Research.

[175]  M. Beller,et al.  Selective CO2 Reduction to CO in Water using Earth-Abundant Metal and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[176]  Jijun Zhao,et al.  Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon , 2018 .

[177]  Tao Zhang,et al.  Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction , 2018 .

[178]  Jianglin Ye,et al.  Tailoring the Structure of Carbon Nanomaterials toward High‐End Energy Applications , 2018, Advanced materials.

[179]  Neng Li,et al.  Photocatalytic fixation of nitrogen to ammonia: state-of-the-art advancements and future prospects , 2018 .

[180]  Zheng Jiang,et al.  Highly Efficient CO2 Electroreduction on ZnN4 -based Single-Atom Catalyst , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[181]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Defect and Interface Engineering for Aqueous Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction , 2018, Joule.

[182]  Yi Jia,et al.  Defects on carbons for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction. , 2018, Chemical Society reviews.

[183]  Jiang Zhou,et al.  Recent Advances in Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries , 2018, ACS Energy Letters.

[184]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  Efficient and durable N2 reduction electrocatalysis under ambient conditions: β-FeOOH nanorods as a non-noble-metal catalyst. , 2018, Chemical communications.

[185]  Faxing Wang,et al.  Ambient N2 fixation to NH3 at ambient conditions: Using Nb2O5 nanofiber as a high-performance electrocatalyst , 2018, Nano Energy.

[186]  M. Antonietti,et al.  Single‐Site Gold Catalysts on Hierarchical N‐Doped Porous Noble Carbon for Enhanced Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen , 2018, Small Methods.

[187]  Xi‐Wen Du,et al.  Engineering oxygen vacancy on NiO nanorod arrays for alkaline hydrogen evolution , 2018 .

[188]  Jianfang Wang,et al.  Emerging Applications of Plasmons in Driving CO2 Reduction and N2 Fixation , 2018, Advanced materials.

[189]  Christopher L. Brown,et al.  Coordination of Atomic Co-Pt Coupling Species at Carbon Defects as Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. , 2018, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[190]  Yi Xie,et al.  Atomically Thin Two-Dimensional Solids: An Emerging Platform for CO2 Electroreduction , 2018 .

[191]  B. Wood,et al.  Graphene Defects Trap Atomic Ni Species for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions , 2018 .

[192]  Zhuang Kong,et al.  Hydrophobic and Electronic Properties of the E‐MoS2 Nanosheets Induced by FAS for the CO2 Electroreduction to Syngas with a Wide Range of CO/H2 Ratios , 2018, Advanced Functional Materials.

[193]  J. Renner,et al.  The Use of Controls for Consistent and Accurate Measurements of Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis from Dinitrogen , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[194]  S. Back,et al.  Suppression of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Electrochemical N2 Reduction Using Single-Atom Catalysts: A Computational Guideline , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[195]  Qichen Wang,et al.  Edge Defect Engineering of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Oxygen Electrocatalysts in Zn-Air Batteries. , 2018, ACS applied materials & interfaces.

[196]  Mingjun Li,et al.  Effect of sulphur vacancy and interlayer interaction on the electronic structure and spin splitting of bilayer MoS2 , 2018, Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal.

[197]  Satish Kumar Iyemperumal,et al.  Synergy between Defects, Photoexcited Electrons, and Supported Single Atom Catalysts for CO2 Reduction , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[198]  Xun Wang,et al.  Metallic Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanocatalysts for Energy Conversion , 2018, Chem.

[199]  Bo Tang,et al.  Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis via Nitrogen Reduction Reaction on a MoS2 Catalyst: Theoretical and Experimental Studies , 2018, Advanced materials.

[200]  R. Long,et al.  Recent progress on advanced design for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to fuels , 2018, Science China Materials.

[201]  Yi Du,et al.  Activating Titania for Efficient Electrocatalysis by Vacancy Engineering , 2018 .

[202]  Hongwei Zhang,et al.  Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for efficient electrocatalysis , 2018, Journal of Materiomics.

[203]  Bin Wang,et al.  Defect-rich carbon fiber electrocatalysts with porous graphene skin for flexible solid-state zinc–air batteries , 2018, Energy Storage Materials.

[204]  Y. Jiao,et al.  Single-Crystal Nitrogen-Rich Two-Dimensional Mo5N6 Nanosheets for Efficient and Stable Seawater Splitting. , 2018, ACS nano.

[205]  Ru Chen,et al.  Plasma‐Assisted Synthesis and Surface Modification of Electrode Materials for Renewable Energy , 2018, Advanced materials.

[206]  Tingshuai Li,et al.  High-Performance Electrohydrogenation of N2 to NH3 Catalyzed by Multishelled Hollow Cr2O3 Microspheres under Ambient Conditions , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[207]  Jiajian Gao,et al.  Identifying Active Sites of Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Materials for the CO2 Reduction Reaction , 2018 .

[208]  L. Gu,et al.  Cation vacancy stabilization of single-atomic-site Pt1/Ni(OH)x catalyst for diboration of alkynes and alkenes , 2018, Nature Communications.

[209]  Yu Ding,et al.  Defect Engineering Metal-Free Polymeric Carbon Nitride Electrocatalyst for Effective Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[210]  Wei Hu,et al.  N-doped defective carbon with trace Co for efficient rechargeable liquid electrolyte-/all-solid-state Zn-air batteries. , 2018, Science bulletin.

[211]  Xiujian Zhao,et al.  Unravelling the electrochemical mechanisms for nitrogen fixation on single transition metal atoms embedded in defective graphitic carbon nitride , 2018 .

[212]  Yifu Yu,et al.  Engineering Sulfur Defects, Atomic Thickness, and Porous Structures into Cobalt Sulfide Nanosheets for Efficient Electrocatalytic Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[213]  Yadong Li,et al.  Single-Atom Catalysts: Synthetic Strategies and Electrochemical Applications , 2018, Joule.

[214]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  Efficient Electrochemical N2 Reduction to NH3 on MoN Nanosheets Array under Ambient Conditions , 2018, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

[215]  Jia Liu,et al.  Stabilizing the oxygen vacancies and promoting water-oxidation kinetics in cobalt oxides by lower valence-state doping , 2018, Nano Energy.

[216]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  TiO2 nanoparticles–reduced graphene oxide hybrid: an efficient and durable electrocatalyst toward artificial N2 fixation to NH3 under ambient conditions , 2018 .

[217]  Fei Zhang,et al.  A physical catalyst for the electrolysis of nitrogen to ammonia , 2018, Science Advances.

[218]  M. Shu,et al.  Achieving a Record‐High Yield Rate of 120.9 μgNH3  mgcat.−1  h−1 for N2 Electrochemical Reduction over Ru Single‐Atom Catalysts , 2018, Advanced materials.

[219]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Aqueous electrocatalytic N2 reduction under ambient conditions , 2018, Nano Research.

[220]  Jun Deng,et al.  Ultrathin bismuth nanosheets from in situ topotactic transformation for selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to formate , 2018, Nature Communications.

[221]  D. Cullen,et al.  Metal-organic framework-derived nitrogen-doped highly disordered carbon for electrochemical ammonia synthesis using N2 and H2O in alkaline electrolytes , 2018, Nano Energy.

[222]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  Boosted Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction to NH3 by Defect‐Rich MoS2 Nanoflower , 2018, Advanced Energy Materials.

[223]  Shuangyin Wang,et al.  Defect engineering on electrocatalysts for gas-evolving reactions. , 2018, Dalton transactions.

[224]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Boron-Doped Graphene for Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction , 2018, Joule.

[225]  Chao Wang,et al.  Recent Advances in CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysis on Copper , 2018, ACS Energy Letters.

[226]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  High-Efficiency Electrosynthesis of Ammonia with High Selectivity under Ambient Conditions Enabled by VN Nanosheet Array , 2018, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

[227]  Baozhan Zheng,et al.  Enabling Effective Electrocatalytic N2 Conversion to NH3 by the TiO2 Nanosheets Array under Ambient Conditions. , 2018, ACS applied materials & interfaces.

[228]  Zhi Zhou,et al.  Enhancing the electrochemical properties of LiTi2(PO4)3/C anode for aqueous rechargeable lithium battery by Li vacancy , 2018 .

[229]  Huijun Zhao,et al.  Nitrogen-free commercial carbon cloth with rich defects for electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis under ambient conditions. , 2018, Chemical communications.

[230]  Yaocai Bai,et al.  Surface Engineering of Nanostructured Energy Materials , 2018, Advanced materials.

[231]  Jun Wang,et al.  Ambient Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis with High Selectivity on Fe/Fe Oxide Catalyst , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[232]  P. Ajayan,et al.  Nickel Vacancies Boost Reconstruction in Nickel Hydroxide Electrocatalyst , 2018 .

[233]  Shuangyin Wang,et al.  Defect Engineering Strategies for Nitrogen Reduction Reactions under Ambient Conditions , 2018, Small Methods.

[234]  Y. Jiao,et al.  Surface and Interface Engineering in Copper-Based Bimetallic Materials for Selective CO2 Electroreduction , 2018, Chem.

[235]  Zhonghua Zhu,et al.  Tuning oxygen vacancies in two-dimensional iron-cobalt oxide nanosheets through hydrogenation for enhanced oxygen evolution activity , 2018, Nano Research.

[236]  Wenguang Zhu,et al.  Nickel Doping in Atomically Thin Tin Disulfide Nanosheets Enables Highly Efficient CO2 Reduction. , 2018, Angewandte Chemie.

[237]  Y. Jiao,et al.  Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis. , 2018, Chemical reviews.

[238]  Xuping Sun,et al.  MnO2 nanoarrays: an efficient catalyst electrode for nitrite electroreduction toward sensing and NH3 synthesis applications. , 2018, Chemical communications.

[239]  Qichen Wang,et al.  Combined Electron and Structure Manipulation on Fe-Containing N-Doped Carbon Nanotubes To Boost Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis. , 2018, ACS applied materials & interfaces.

[240]  Gengfeng Zheng,et al.  Single-Atomic Cu with Multiple Oxygen Vacancies on Ceria for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4 , 2018, ACS Catalysis.

[241]  Abdullah M. Asiri,et al.  Ag nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic N2 fixation to NH3 under ambient conditions. , 2018, Chemical communications.

[242]  Laetitia Dubau,et al.  Surface Distortion as a Unifying Concept and Descriptor in Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysis , 2018, Nature Materials.

[243]  Efficient Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 by Nitrogen-Doped Nanoporous Carbon-Carbon Nanotube Membranes - A Step Towards the Electrochemical CO2 Refinery , 2018, 1810.13007.

[244]  Z. Zuo,et al.  Emerging Electrochemical Energy Applications of Graphdiyne , 2019, Joule.

[245]  Guozhao Fang,et al.  Suppressing Manganese Dissolution in Potassium Manganate with Rich Oxygen Defects Engaged High‐Energy‐Density and Durable Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Battery , 2019, Advanced Functional Materials.

[246]  Nan Zhang,et al.  Promoting nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia with bismuth nanocrystals and potassium cations in water , 2019, Nature Catalysis.

[247]  Chen Chen,et al.  BN Pairs Enriched Defective Carbon Nanosheets for Ammonia Synthesis with High Efficiency. , 2019, Small.

[248]  L. Dai,et al.  Doping of Carbon Materials for Metal‐Free Electrocatalysis , 2018, Advanced materials.

[249]  Rong Jin,et al.  Bridging the Surface Charge and Catalytic Activity of a Defective Carbon Electrocatalyst. , 2019, Angewandte Chemie.

[250]  Haihui Wang,et al.  Efficient Electrocatalytic N2 Fixation with MXene under Ambient Conditions , 2019, Joule.

[251]  L. Dai,et al.  Carbon‐Based Metal‐Free Catalysts for Key Reactions Involved in Energy Conversion and Storage , 2018, Advanced materials.