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Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.
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This paper presents a probabilistic procedure for estimating the polymethine content of carbon dioxide using a straightforward two-step procedure, and shows good results in both the stationary and the liquid phase.Abstract:
Liming Dai,*,†,‡ Yuhua Xue,†,‡ Liangti Qu,* Hyun-Jung Choi, and Jong-Beom Baek* †Center of Advanced Science and Engineering for Carbon (Case4Carbon), Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China School of Energy and Chemical Engineering/Center for Dimension-Controllable Covalent Organic Frameworks, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 100 Banyeon, Ulsan, 689-798, South Korearead more
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Active sites of nitrogen-doped carbon materials for oxygen reduction reaction clarified using model catalysts
TL;DR: In this paper, the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) active site was characterized by using newly designed graphite (highly oriented pyrolitic graphite) model catalysts with well-defined π conjugation and well-controlled doping of N species.
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Cocatalysts for Selective Photoreduction of CO2 into Solar Fuels.
TL;DR: Various cocatalysts, such as the biomimetic, metal-based,Metal-free, and multifunctional ones, and their selectivity for CO2 photoreduction are summarized and discussed, along with the recent advances in this area.
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Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis
Huanyu Jin,Chunxian Guo,Xin Liu,Jinlong Liu,Anthony Vasileff,Yan Jiao,Yao Zheng,Shi-Zhang Qiao +7 more
TL;DR: The fundamental relationships between electronic structure, adsorption energy, and apparent activity for a wide variety of 2D electrocatalysts are described with the goal of providing a better understanding of these emerging nanomaterials at the atomic level.
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Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious-Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions
TL;DR: The recent development of this concept is reviewed here and a novel principle for the design of oxygen electrocatalysts is proposed and an overview of the defects in carbon-based, metal-free electrocatalysis for ORR and various defects in metal oxides/selenides for OER is provided.
Structural (n,m) determination of isolated single wall carbon nanotubes by resonant Raman scattering
Mildred S. Dresselhaus,Ado Jorio,G. Dresselhaus,Martin Hunter,T. McClure,Jason H. Hafner,Charles M. Lieber,Riichiro Saito +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a unique chirality assignment was made for both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes of diameter d(t), using the parameters gamma(0) = 2.9 eV and omega(RBM) = 248/d(t).
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Superoxide anion is the intermediate in the oxygen reduction reaction on platinum electrodes
TL;DR: The appearance of O2- means that the series reaction pathway operates during O2 reduction on Pt electrodes in alkaline solutions and very likely also in acid solutions, opening up the possibility of formulating a detailed reaction mechanism on surfaces supporting a four-electron reduction.
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Electrostatic layer-by-layer assembled carbon nanotube multilayer film and its electrocatalytic activity for O2 reduction.
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Catalysis: the art of splitting water.
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PtRu nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes as catalyst for methanol electrooxidation
Raghuram Chetty,Shankhamala Kundu,Wei Xia,Michael Bron,Wolfgang Schuhmann,Valentin Chirila,W. Brandl,Thomas Reinecke,Martin Muhler +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of PtRu/N-CNT was compared to the conventional acid-treated carbon nanotubes (O-Cnt) as catalyst support for platinum-ruthenium (PtRu) nanoparticles in the anodic oxidation of methanol in direct methanoline fuel cells.
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Pillaring chemically exfoliated graphene oxide with carbon nanotubes for photocatalytic degradation of dyes under visible light irradiation.
TL;DR: The CNT-pillared RGO composite materials exhibited an excellent visible light photocatalytic performance in degrading dye Rhodamine B because of the unique porous structure and the exceptional electron transfer property of graphene.