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Self-Supported Transition-Metal-Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution

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Focusing on self-supported electrodes, the latest advances in their structural design, controllable synthesis, mechanistic understanding, and strategies for performance enhancement are presented.
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Electrochemical water splitting is a promising technology for sustainable conversion, storage, and transport of hydrogen energy. Searching for earth-abundant hydrogen/oxygen evolution reaction (HER/OER) electrocatalysts with high activity and durability to replace noble-metal-based catalysts plays paramount importance in the scalable application of water electrolysis. A freestanding electrode architecture is highly attractive as compared to the conventional coated powdery form because of enhanced kinetics and stability. Herein, recent progress in developing transition-metal-based HER/OER electrocatalytic materials is reviewed with selected examples of chalcogenides, phosphides, carbides, nitrides, alloys, phosphates, oxides, hydroxides, and oxyhydroxides. Focusing on self-supported electrodes, the latest advances in their structural design, controllable synthesis, mechanistic understanding, and strategies for performance enhancement are presented. Remaining challenges and future perspectives for the further development of self-supported electrocatalysts are also discussed.

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Transition metal-based bimetallic MOFs and MOF-derived catalysts for electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction

TL;DR: The transition metal-based bimetallic MOFs (TMB MOFs) with two different metal ions possess specific synergistic effects, which could exhibit OER performance and stability superior to those of the corresponding monometallic MOF for water oxidation.
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Metal oxide-based materials as an emerging family of hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of recent advances in metal oxide-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) can be found in this paper, with special emphasis on designed strategies for promoting performance and property-activity correlation.
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Recent advances in transition-metal-sulfide-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidelines for the design and fabrication of TMS-based bifunctional electrocatalysts with excellent performance and to accelerate their large-scale practical application in water electrolysis.
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TL;DR: This review highlights the recent research efforts toward the synthesis of noble metal-free electrocatalysts, especially at the nanoscale, and their catalytic properties for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and summarizes some important examples showing that non-Pt HER electrocatsalysts could serve as efficient cocatalysts for promoting direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion in both photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting systems, when combined with suitable semiconductor photocatalyst.
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Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reaction: recent development and future perspectives

TL;DR: This review acquaints some materials for performing OER activity, in which the metal oxide materials build the basis of OER mechanism while non-oxide materials exhibit greatly promising performance toward overall water-splitting.
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An overview of hydrogen production technologies

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