Zhiqin Liang

TL;DR: Simulations show that the ability to tune the average oxidation state of copper enables control over CO adsorption and dimerization, and makes it possible to implement a preference for the electrosynthesis of C2 products.

TL;DR: In this paper, a class of core-shell vacancy engineering catalysts that utilize sulfur atoms in the nanoparticle core and copper vacancies in the shell to achieve efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to propanol and ethanol was proposed.

TL;DR: A strategy involving metal-organic framework (MOF)-regulated Cu cluster formation that shifts CO2 electroreduction toward multiple-carbon product generation is reported, and the tuning of the Cu-Cu CN in Cu clusters determines the CO2RR selectivity.

TL;DR: It is shown that healing the deep traps in wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells—in effect, increasing the defect tolerance via cation engineering—enables further performance improvements in PSCs and achieves a stabilized power conversion efficiency of 20.7%.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss the outstanding challenges towards commercialization of electrochemical CO2 reduction technology: energy efficiencies, selectivities, low current densities, and stability, and highlight the opportunities in establishing rigorous standards for benchmarking performance, advances in in operando characterization, the discovery of new materials towards high value products, the investigation of phenomena across multiple-length scales and the application of data science towards doing so.