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Magnetron sputtering enabled sustainable synthesis of nanomaterials for energy electrocatalysis
Jie Liang,Qian Liu,Tingshuai Li,Yonglan Luo,Siyu Lu,Xifeng Shi,Fang Zhang,Abdullah M. Asiri,Xuping Sun +8 more
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In this article, a discussion of applications of sputtered nanostructures in various types of clean energy conversion reaction, covering the architecture/compositional design, controllable and green synthesis, reaction mechanism, and the electrochemical performances are reviewed.About:
This article is published in Green Chemistry.The article was published on 2021-04-26. It has received 82 citations till now.read more
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Continuous Ultra-Thin MOS2 Films Grown by Low-Temperature Physical Vapor Deposition (Postprint)
Andrey A. Voevodin,Patrick J. Shamberger,Michael E. McConney,Rachel D. Naguy,Chris Muratore,Jianjun Hu,Baoming Wang,M. A. Haque,John E. Bultman,Michael L. Jespersen +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a vapor phase growth technique for precisely controlled synthesis of continuous, uniform molecular layers of MoS2 on silicon dioxide and highly oriented pyrolitic graphite substrates of over several square centimeters at 350 deg C.
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A hierarchical CuO@NiCo layered double hydroxide core–shell nanoarray as an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
Yang Cao,Ting Wang,Xue Li,Longcheng Zhang,Yonglan Luo,Fang Zhang,Abdullah M. Asiri,Jianming Hu,Qian Liu,Xuping Sun +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development of a hierarchical CuO@NiCo layered double hydroxide core-shell nanoarray on copper foil as a 3D oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst.
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Atomic heterointerface engineering overcomes the activity limitation of electrocatalysts and promises highly-efficient alkaline water splitting
Qiucheng Xu,Jiahao Zhang,Haoxuan Zhang,Liyue Zhang,Ling Chen,Yanjie Hu,Hao Jiang,Chunzhong Li +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent progress of atomic heterointerface engineering to improve the activity of electrocatalysts is presented, in which the ensemble effect is helpful in optimizing the reaction pathways with enhanced reaction kinetics and the electron effect can balance the adsorption energies of reaction intermediates by coupling their electronic configurations.
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Superior hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis enabled by CoP nanowire array on graphite felt
TL;DR: In this article , a CoP nanowire array was developed on porous graphite felt (CoP/GF) as a new 3D electrocatalyst in facilitating hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis.
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TiB2 thin film enabled efficient NH3 electrosynthesis at ambient conditions
Shaoxiong Li,Yuanyuan Wang,Jie Liang,Tong Xu,Dongwei Ma,Qian Liu,Tingshuai Li,Siran Xu,Guang Chen,Abdullah M. Asiri,Yonglan Luo,Qi Wu,Xuping Sun +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sputtered TiB2 film was used to enable artificial N2 reduction electrocatalysis in 0.1 M HCl and achieved a high Faradaic efficiency of 11.37% at 0.30 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode.
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