A facile one-pot surfactant-free solvothermal method was developed to synthesize [email protected] layered double hydroxide (LDH) heterostructures. By rationally controlling the sequential growth of ZIF-67 and re-precipitation process of 2-MeIM-inserted Co-Ni LDHs, a series of heterogeneous [email protected] LDH polyhedra with controllable void space and fin...
A facile one-pot surfactant-free solvothermal method was developed to synthesize [email protected] layered double hydroxide (LDH) heterostructures. By rationally controlling the sequential growth of ZIF-67 and re-precipitation process of 2-MeIM-inserted Co-Ni LDHs, a series of heterogeneous [email protected] LDH polyhedra with controllable void space and fin...
An amidation-dominated re-assembly strategy is developed to prepare uniform single atom Ni/S/C nanotubes. In this re-assembly process, a single-atom design and nano-structured engineering are realized simultaneously. Both the NiO5 single-atom active centers and nanotube framework endow the Ni/S/C ternary composite with accelerated reaction kinetics...
Developing a highly efficient, cost-effective, easily scalable and sustainable cathode for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a crucial challenge in terms of future "green" energy conversion technologies, e.g., microbial fuel cells (MFCs). In this study, a natural and widely available lotus leaf with intrinsically hierarchical structure was employe...
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a critical step in water splitting to produce hydrogen. Therefore, the study of corresponding electrocatalysts for OER is of vital importance. However, the most-used carbon-based supports suffer from corrosion which leads to substandard performance. In this research, a series of vanadium nitrides (VN) were syn...
We synthesized ordered mesoporous Fe/N/C with highly active Fe-N-X/C sitesdenoted as m-FePhen-C as a non precious metal catalyst (NPMC) for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells. This was the first study that incorporated a catalyst precursor with Fe-N coordination directly in a simple block co-polymer-assisted soft template method for the sy...
The use of the metal-oxide support has been proved to be an effective approach in the development of fuel-cell catalysts especially for improving the stability of Pt-based electrocatalysts, which is not attainable with conventional carbonaceous materials. Nonetheless, because of the intrinsic low electrical conductivity of pure metal-oxides, metal-...
Alkaline electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for chromium oxidation and Cr-contaminated waste disposal were reported in this study. The highly graphitized multi-walled carbon nanotubes g-MWCNTs modified electrode was prepared for the in-situ electrochemical generation of HO2-. RRDE test results illustrated that g-MWCNTs exhibited much hig...
Carbon-supported Pt-Ru alloys with a Pt/Ru ratio of 1:1 were prepared by NaBH4 reduction at room temperature. X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements indicate that the as-prepared Pt-Ru nanoparticles had a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses demonstrate that alloying with Ru can decrease the 4f electron...
Novel nanostructured silicon composites, Si/Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanowire network (Si/PNW) and Si/(S-doped-carbon nanowire network) (Si/S-CNW), are prepared by a soft-template polymerization of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as surfactant with the presence of Si nanoparticles and a subsequent carbon...
