- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Advanced battery technologies research
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Fuel Cells and Related Materials
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
- Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
- Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
- GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
- Covalent Organic Framework Applications
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Graphene research and applications
- Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Advanced Power Amplifier Design
- Hydrogen Storage and Materials
- Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
Yunnan University
2022-2025
Tsinghua University
2020-2024
Yunnan Institute of Environmental Sciences
2023
Queensland University of Technology
2017-2022
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
2021-2022
Xiamen University
2022
Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
2022
Sun Yat-sen University
2022
Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
2022
Brisbane School of Theology
2017-2021
Despite a suitable bandgap of bismuth vanadate (BiVO4 ) for visible light absorption, most the photogenerated holes in BiVO4 photoanodes are vanished before reaching surfaces oxygen evolution reaction due to poor charge separation efficiency bulk. Herein, new sulfur oxidation strategy is developed prepare planar with situ formed vacancies, which increases majority carrier density and photovoltage, leading record 98.2% among reported photoanodes. Upon loading NiFeOx as an cocatalyst, stable...
Abstract Owing to the sluggish kinetics for water oxidation, severe surface charge recombination is a major energy loss that hinders efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) splitting. Herein, simple process developed preparing new type of low‐cost iron‐cobalt oxide (FeCoO x ) as an co‐catalyst suppress on bismuth vanadate (BiVO 4 photoanodes. The FeCoO /BiVO photoanode exhibits high photocurrent density 4.82 mA cm −2 at 1.23 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode under AM 1.5 G illumination,...
Abstract Single‐atom catalysts, which can maximize the utility of metal atoms, and at same time achieve high catalytic performance, have attracted great interest in research. In this present study, 11 transition atoms supported on a graphdiyne (GDY) monolayer (TM@GDY, where TM represents from Sc to Zn Pt) as electrocatalysts are investigated by means first‐principle calculations. It is found that single atom very stable corner acetylenic ring. These features help realization uniformly...
The development of low-dimensional (LD) supramolecular materials with multifunctional electrocatalytic properties has sparked the attention catalysis community. Herein, we report synthesis a new class 0D–2D heterostructures composed boron carbon nitride nanosheets (BCN NSs) and fullerene molecules (C60/F) that exhibit for hydrogen evolution/oxidation reactions (HER/HOR) oxygen evolution/reduction (OER/ORR). were studied varying F:BCN weight ratios to optimize intermolecular electron transfer...
The design of alternative earth-abundant van der Waals (vdW) nanoheterostructures for bifunctional oxygen evolution/reduction (OER/ORR) electrocatalysis is paramount importance to fabricate energy-related devices. Herein, we report a simple metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived synthetic strategy low-dimensional (LD) nanohybrids formed by zero-dimensional (0D) ZrO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and heteroatom-doped two-dimensional (2D) carbon nanostructures. 2D platforms controlled the electronic...
High-entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEANs) possessing regulated defect structure and electron interaction exhibit a guideline for constructing multifunctional catalysts. However, the microstructure–activity relationship between active sites of HEANs electrocatalysts is rarely reported. In this work, distributed on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (HEAN/CNT) are prepared by Joule heating as an example to explain mechanism trifunctional electrocatalysis oxygen reduction, evolution, hydrogen...
Electronic structure, particularly charge state analysis, plays a crucial role in comprehending catalytic mechanisms. This study focuses on metal-free boron carbonitride (BCN) nanosheets as case to investigate the impact of heteroatom doping active sites at edge two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials. Our observations revealed that induces shift frontier p
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a highly promising class of materials for electrocatalysis as their unique active site distributions break the scaling relations that limit activity conventional transition metal catalysts. Existing Bayesian optimization (BO)-based virtual screening approaches focus on catalytic sole objective and correspondingly tend to identify unlikely be entropically stabilized. Here, we overcome this limitation with multiobjective BO framework HEAs simultaneously targets...
Electrochemical reduction of dinitrogen molecules (N2) to value-added ammonia by using renewable electricity under mild conditions is regarded as a sustainable and promising strategy for N2 fixation. However, the lack efficient, robust inexpensive electrocatalysts such electrochemical has prevented its wide application. Herein, we report novel single-atom catalyst, i.e., single tungsten (W) atom anchored on N-doped graphyne (W@N-doped graphyne) highly efficient low-cost electrocatalyst...
Fullerene-based low-dimensional (LD) heterostructures have emerged as excellent energy conversion materials. We constructed van der Waals 1T-MoS2/C60 0D-2D via a one-pot synthetic approach for catalytic hydrogen generation. The interfacial 1T-MoS2–C60 and C60–C60 interactions well their electrocatalytic properties were finely controlled by varying the weight percentages of fullerenes. 1T-MoS2 platforms provided novel template formation C60 nanosheets (NSs) within very narrow fullerene...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising for use in lithium (Li) electrodes due to their high surface ratio. By using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we investigate the adsorption and diffusion of Li on a newly predicted 2D GeP3 material [Nano Lett., 2016, 17, 1833]. The most favourable sites identified, semiconducting metallic transition induced by is found, which indicates excellent electrical conductivity. monolayer has an estimated capacity 648 mA h g-1, almost twice...
2D black phosphorus (BP) is one promising electrocatalyst toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen (OER) catalysis. The too strong adsorption of intermediates during OER, while the weak intermediate HER, however, greatly compromise its practical water splitting applications with overpotentials as high 450 mV for OER 420 HER to achieve 10 mA cm-2 under alkaline conditions. Herein, by rationally introducing nanosized iridium (Ir) modifier together optimized exposing surface...
Abstract 2D heterostructures provide another exciting opportunity for extending the application of materials in energy conversion and storage devices, due to their flexibility electronic structure modulations surface chemistry regulations. Herein, by coupling liquid‐exfoliated mildly oxidized black phosphorus nanosheets (BP‐NSs) with wet‐chemically synthesized nickel Ni(OH) 2 (NH‐NSs), 2D/2D heterostructured (BNHNSs) are rationally constructed a favorable transition electron desired...
Abstract The fundamental relationship between structure and properties, which is called “structure‐property”, plays a vital role in the rational designing of high‐performance catalysts for diverse electrocatalytic applications. Low‐dimensional (LD) nanomaterials, including 0D, 1D, 2D materials, combined with low‐nuclearity metal atoms, ranging from single atoms to subnanometer clusters, are currently emerging as rising star nanoarchitectures heterogeneous catalysis due their well‐defined...
Abstract Exploring highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts for large‐scale water electrolysis in the full potential of (pH) range is desirable, but it remains a significant challenge. Herein, simple pathway proposed to synthesize hybrid electrocatalyst by decorating small metallic platinum (Pt) nanosheets on large nickel telluride nanosheet (termed as Pt Ns /NiTe‐Ns). The as‐prepared /NiTe‐Ns catalyst only requires overpotentials 72, 162, and 65 mV reach high...