In this communication, we report a biomass-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon (named as NC-800) as an electrocatalyst for the ambient conversion of N2 to NH3. The catalyst NC-800 was prepared from naturally renewable and easily available bamboo shoots, with inherently an approximate 8 wt % of N-containing components, such as the N source, in a co...
Published in Nano-Micro Letters
Metals and metal oxides are widely used as photo/electro-catalysts for environmental remediation. However, there are many issues related to these metal-based catalysts for practical applications, such as high cost and detrimental environmental impact due to metal leaching. Carbon-based catalysts have the potential to overcome these limitations. In ...
Published in Frontiers in chemistry
N-doped mesoporous carbons, NMCs, have attracted intensive attention recently and have shown potential applications in various scientific fields including catalysis and energy conversion/storage. Via modification with foreign N elements and construction of mesoporous structures for NMCs, their electronic and spin structure, as well as their porosit...
Nitrogen-doped and undoped titanium dioxide nanoparticles were successfully fabricated by simple chemical method and characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive x-ray (EDX), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. The reduction in crystalline size of TiO2 nanoparticles (from 20&n...
In situ engineering highly active and ultrastable bi-functional electrocatalysts based on metal ions from transition metal alloys that are simultaneously suitable for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is one of the key unresolved challenges on the way to energy-efficient hydrogen fuel production by water splittin...
Published in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
In this paper, high-capacity supercapacitor material (Fe-Nx/CNFs) synthesized by electrospinning a metal complex in PAN/DMF solution with different temperatures was presented. Moreover, nitrogen doping (N-doping in short) has been used to tailor the properties of carbon nanofibers and rendered its potential use for capacitor as an effective way. Th...
N-doped graphene has demonstrated exceptional activities in versatile metal-free catalytic processes. In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and N-doped rGO were synthesized by a facile approach via microwave reduction with a low energy input and short reaction time. The activities of the derived carbocatalysts were evaluated by catalytic ozon...
N-doped graphene has demonstrated exceptional activities in versatile metal-free catalytic processes. In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and N-doped rGO were synthesized by a facile approach via microwave reduction with a low energy input and short reaction time. The activities of the derived carbocatalysts were evaluated by catalytic ozon...
N-doped and N,S-co-doped SrTiO3 photocatalysts were prepared using glycine and L-histidine amino acids as nitrogen sources and L-cysteine as nitrogen and sulphur source. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), N2 porosimetry, UV-Vis diffuse reflectance (DRS) and fluorescence spectroscopy, dynam...
Published in Topics in Catalysis
Titanate nanotubes offer certain benefits like high specific surface area, anisotropic mesoporous structure and ease of synthesis over other nanostructured titania forms. However, their application in visible light driven photocatalysis is hindered by their wide band-gap, which can be remedied by, e.g., anionic doping. Here we report on a systemati...
