articleAccounts of Chemical ResearchFeb 16, 2017Closed access

Surface and Interface Engineering of Noble-Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Efficient Energy Conversion Processes

The University of Adelaide

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Abstract

ConspectusDeveloping cost-effective and high-performance electrocatalysts for renewable energy conversion and storage is motivated by increasing concerns regarding global energy security and creating sustainable technologies dependent on inexpensive and abundant resources. Recent achievements in the design and synthesis of efficient non-precious-metal and even non-metal electrocatalysts make the replacement of noble metal counterparts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with earth-abundant elements, for example, C, N, Fe, Mn, and Co, a realistic possibility. It has been found that surface atomic engineering (e.g., heteroatom-doping)…

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Keywords
  • Heteroatom
  • Surface engineering
  • Oxygen evolution
  • Catalysis
  • Nanotechnology
  • Electrochemical energy conversion
  • Materials science
  • Noble metal
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