Defect Engineering in Carbon‐Based Electrocatalysts: Insight into Intrinsic Carbon Defects

Abstract Functionalized carbon nanomaterials, as significant options for renewable energy systems, are widely utilized in diversified electrochemical reactions in virtue of property advantages. The inevitable defect sites in architectures greatly affect physicochemical properties of carbon nanomaterials, thus defect engineering has recently become a vital research orientation of carbon‐based electrocatalysts. The intentionally introduced intrinsic carbon defect sites in the frameworks can directly serve as the potential active sites owing to the altered surface charge state, modulated adsorption free energy of key intermediates, as well as diminished bandgap. Furthermore, the synergistic sites between…

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  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 51672204
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  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2016YFA0202603