Atomic site electrocatalysts for water splitting, oxygen reduction and selective oxidation

Chemical Society Reviews
Di ZhaoYadong Li

Abstract

Electrocatalysis plays a central role in clean energy conversion, enabling a number of processes for future sustainable technologies. Atomic site electrocatalysts (ASCs), including single-atomic site catalysts (SASCs) and diatomic site catalysis (DASCs), are being pursued as economical alternatives to noble-metal-based catalysts for these reactions by virtue of their exceptionally high atom utilization efficiencies, well-defined active sites and high selectivities. In this review, we start from a systematic review on the fabrication routes of ASCs followed by an overview of some new and effective characterization methods to precisely probe the atomic structure. Then we give a comprehensive summary on the current advances in some typical clean energy reactions: water splitting, including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER); oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), including selective 4e- - ORR toward H2O/OH- and 2e- - ORR toward H2O2/HO2-; selective electrooxidation of formic acid, methanol and ethanol (FAOR, MOR and EOR). At the end of this paper, we present a brief conclusion, and discuss the challenges and opportunities on the further development of more selective, active, stable and less expensive A...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
transmission
X-ray
nuclear magnetic resonance
scanning tunnelling microscopy
scanning
scanning tunnelling spectroscopy
imaging technique

Software Mentioned

FAOR
EOR
XANES
MOR

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