Xiaolong Zou

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis of a type of monolith catalyst consisting of a metal disulfide (e.g., tantalum sulfides) vertically bonded to a conductive substrate of the same metal tantalum by strong covalent bonds was reported.

TL;DR: Electronic structural calculations show that most of B(x)/2N(x/2)C(1-x) phases possess direct band gaps within the optical range, thereby they can potentially be used in high-efficiency conversion of solar energy to electric power, as well as in p-n junction photovoltaic modules.

TL;DR: This work reports a unique approach where copper (Cu) atoms from bulk Cu solid intercalate spontaneously into van der Waals (vdW) gaps of group IV and V layered TMDs at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to develop a strategy to synthesize Cu species–intercalated layered T MD compounds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the trend of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance of oxygen-terminated MXenes was investigated using density functional theory calculations, and a suitable HER descriptor, oxygen vacancy formation energy (Ef), which scales linearly with the adsorption free energy of hydrogen, ΔGH, was proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) as metal-free catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation was reported, for the first time, in which the nitrogen dopants, located at the edge sites, played a key role in inducing thermocatalytic activity in carbon nanostructures.