Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reactions(OER)has attracted much attention due to its important role in water splitting and rechargeable metal-air batteries.Therefore,designing highly efficient and low-cost ...Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reactions(OER)has attracted much attention due to its important role in water splitting and rechargeable metal-air batteries.Therefore,designing highly efficient and low-cost catalysts for OER process is essential as the conventional catalysts still rely on precious metals.Transition metal-based compounds have been widely investigated as active OER catalysts,and renewed interest in the high valence metals engineered compounds has been achieved for superior catalytic activity and stability.However,an in-depth understanding of the construction strategies and induced effects for the high valence metals engineered catalysts is still lacking and desired.In this review,we have summarized the construction strategies of high valence metals as dopants or formed heterostructures with the iron/cobalt/nickel(Fe/Co/Ni)-based catalysts.Then the induced effects on Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts by incorporating high valence metals,e.g.,accelerating the surface reconstruction,forming amorphous structure,generating vacancies/defects,and acting as stabilizers,are highlighted.The impacts of high valence metals on OER performance are elucidated based on different elements,including molybdenum(Mo),tungsten(W),cerium(Ce),vanadium(V),chromium(Cr),manganese(Mn),niobium(Nb),zirconium(Zr).The correlations of construction strategies,induced effects,catalytic activity and OER reaction pathways are elaborated.Finally,the remaining challenges for further enhancements of OER performance induced by high valence metals are presented.展开更多
Developing the highly active, cost-effective, environmental-friendly, and ultra-stable nonprecious electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) is distinctly indispensable for the large-scale practical applic...Developing the highly active, cost-effective, environmental-friendly, and ultra-stable nonprecious electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) is distinctly indispensable for the large-scale practical applications of hydrolytic hydrogen production. Herein, we report the synthesis of well-integrated electrode, NiV layered double hydroxide nanosheet array grown in-situ on porous nickel foam(abbreviated as in-NiV-LDH/NF) via the facile one-step hydrothermal route. Interestingly, the valence configuration of vanadium(V) sites in such NiV-LDH are well dominated by the innovative use of NF as the reducing regulator, achieving the reassembled in-NiV-LDH/NF with a high proportion of trivalent V ions(V3+), and then an enhanced intrinsic electrocatalytic HER activity. The HER testing results show that the in-NiVLDH/NF drives the current densities of 10 and 100 mA cm-2 at extremely low overpotentials of 114 and 245 mV without iR-compensation respectively, even outperforms commercial 20 wt% Pt/C at the large current density of over 80 mA cm-2 in alkaline media, as well as gives robust catalytic durability of at least 100 h in both alkaline and neutral media. More importantly, this work provides a fresh perspective for designing bimetal(oxy) hydroxides electrocatalysts with efficient hydrogen generation.展开更多
Engineering unique electronic structure of catalyst to boost catalytic performance is of prime scientific and industrial importance.Herein,the identification of intrinsic electronic sensitivity for direct propene epox...Engineering unique electronic structure of catalyst to boost catalytic performance is of prime scientific and industrial importance.Herein,the identification of intrinsic electronic sensitivity for direct propene epoxidation was first achieved over highly stable Au/wormhole-like TS-1 catalyst.Results show that the electron transfer of Au species can be regulated by manipulating the dynamic evolutions and contents of Au valence states,thus resulting in different catalytic performance in 100 h time-on-stream.By DFT calculations,kinetic analysis and multicharacterizations,it is found that the Au^(0) species with higher electronic population can easily transfer more electrons to activate surface O_(2) compared with Au^(1+) and Au^(3+) species.Moreover,there is a positive correlation between Au^(0) content and activity.Based on this correlation,a facile strategy is further proposed to boost Au^(0) percentage,resulting in the reported highest PO formation rate without adding promoters.This work harbors tremendous guiding significance to the design of highly efficient Au/Ti-containing catalyst for propene epoxidation with H_(2) and O_(2).展开更多
Metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)are highly desirable for promising photocatalytic water splitting,but their practical application is greatly limited due to their unstable chemical properties and insufficient visible lig...Metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)are highly desirable for promising photocatalytic water splitting,but their practical application is greatly limited due to their unstable chemical properties and insufficient visible light response as well as low charge-carries utilization,especially in photocatalytic O_(2)production.Herein,we present a post-modification engineering to modulate cerium metalorganic frameworks(Ce-MOFs)for realizing efficient photocatalytic water oxidation to liberate O_(2)by visible light.The one-step partial oxidation strategy is adopted to modify pristine Ce-MOFs,yielding the new Ce-MOFs(MV-Ce-MOFs)with mixed valence of Ce^(3+)/Ce^(4+).Creating the Ce nodes of a mixed valence state can effectively extend the optical absorption to the visible region,expose more catalytically active sites and inhibit the recombination of photoinduced charges.Consequently,the MV-Ce-MOFs exhibit high activity for photocatalytic O_(2)evolution under visible light,manifesting an impressive1.6%apparent quantum efficiency(AQY)under monochromatic irradiation of 405 nm.The regulation engineering of MOF metal node valence heralds a new paradigm for designing MOF-based photocatalysts.展开更多
Electrocatalyst designs based on oxophilic foreign atoms are considered a promising approach for developing efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)electrocatalysts by overcoming the sluggish alkaline H...Electrocatalyst designs based on oxophilic foreign atoms are considered a promising approach for developing efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)electrocatalysts by overcoming the sluggish alkaline HER kinetics.Here,we design ternary transition metals-based nickel telluride(Mo WNi Te)catalysts consisting of high valence non-3d Mo and W metals and oxophilic Te as a first demonstration of non-precious heterogeneous electrocatalysts following the bifunctional mechanism.The Mo WNi Te showed excellent HER catalytic performance with overpotentials of 72,125,and 182 mV to reach the current densities of 10,100,and 1000 mA cm^(-2),respectively,and the corresponding Tafel slope of 47,52,and 58 mV dec-1in alkaline media,which is much superior to commercial Pt/C.Additionally,the HER performance of Mo WNi Te is well maintained up to 3000 h at the current density of 100 mA cm^(-2).It is further demonstrated that the Mo WNi Te exhibits remarkable HER activities with an overpotential of 45 mV(31 mV)and Tafel slope of 60 mV dec-1(34 mV dec-1)at 10 mA cm^(-2)in neutral(acid)media.The superior HER performance of Mo WNi Te is attributed to the electronic structure modulation,inducing highly active low valence states by the incorporation of high valence non-3d transition metals.It is also attributed to the oxophilic effect of Te,accelerating water dissociation kinetics through a bifunctional catalytic mechanism in alkaline media.Density functional theory calculations further reveal that such synergistic effects lead to reduced free energy for an efficient water dissociation process,resulting in remarkable HER catalytic performances within universal pH environments.展开更多
Defect existing form and its evolution play an important role in the thermoelectric transport process. Here different forms of Pb into the Sn Se system were introduced in order to improve the thermoelectric and mechan...Defect existing form and its evolution play an important role in the thermoelectric transport process. Here different forms of Pb into the Sn Se system were introduced in order to improve the thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Sn Se. Pb/Sn Se samples were fabricated by vacuum melting, solid phase diffusion,spark plasma sintering and annealing treatment. The element valence mapping diagram and the X-ray photoelectron spectra(XPS) characteristic peaks of Pb show that a certain amount of elemental Pb exists in the initial state, and evolves into Pb^(2+)ion after annealing treatment. The micro-structure evolution leads to significant enhancement of the power factor and the ZT value. The power factor(PF) and the ZT value for Pb/Sn Se increases to 623 μW/m/K^(2) and 1.12 at 773 K after annealing treatment, respectively.Compared with Sn Se matrix, the hardness and fracture toughness of Pb/Sn Se samples increased by about40% and 10%, respectively. Reasonable control of microstructure evolution is expected to be a design idea to improve thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Sn Se.展开更多
Low-valence transition metallic complexes have drawn longstanding attention due to their high reactivity toward catalytic transformation of various small molecules.Among these known complexes,the low-valence metal cen...Low-valence transition metallic complexes have drawn longstanding attention due to their high reactivity toward catalytic transformation of various small molecules.Among these known complexes,the low-valence metal centres are commonly stabilized by neutral bulky ligands with strong electron-donating capacity.However,low-valence bimetallic complexes supported by anionic sulfur and cyclopentadienyl ligands are still difficult to obtain in high isolated yield.Herein,we report the synthesis and characteri-zation of two scarce thiolate-bridged Co^(I)Co^(II)and Co^(I)Co^(I)complexes bearing sterically demanding ligands through two stepwise one-electron reduction processes.Interestingly,the Co^(I)Co^(II)complex can facilely promote the homolytic cleavage of dihydrogen across the short Co−Co metallic bond to give a Co^(II)Co III dihydride bridged complex,which is capable of serving as a competent hydrogen atom transfer agent.Moreover,the anionic Co^(I)Co^(I)complex can trigger a stepwise hydrogen generation cycle involving several isolated and structurally well-characterized intermediates.展开更多
基金supported by the Australian Research Council(ARC)through the Discovery Project(DP180102297)the Future Fellow Project(FT180100705)+2 种基金the support from the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steelthe Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy,Shanghai University(SKLASS 2021-**)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.19DZ2270200,20511107700)。
文摘Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reactions(OER)has attracted much attention due to its important role in water splitting and rechargeable metal-air batteries.Therefore,designing highly efficient and low-cost catalysts for OER process is essential as the conventional catalysts still rely on precious metals.Transition metal-based compounds have been widely investigated as active OER catalysts,and renewed interest in the high valence metals engineered compounds has been achieved for superior catalytic activity and stability.However,an in-depth understanding of the construction strategies and induced effects for the high valence metals engineered catalysts is still lacking and desired.In this review,we have summarized the construction strategies of high valence metals as dopants or formed heterostructures with the iron/cobalt/nickel(Fe/Co/Ni)-based catalysts.Then the induced effects on Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts by incorporating high valence metals,e.g.,accelerating the surface reconstruction,forming amorphous structure,generating vacancies/defects,and acting as stabilizers,are highlighted.The impacts of high valence metals on OER performance are elucidated based on different elements,including molybdenum(Mo),tungsten(W),cerium(Ce),vanadium(V),chromium(Cr),manganese(Mn),niobium(Nb),zirconium(Zr).The correlations of construction strategies,induced effects,catalytic activity and OER reaction pathways are elaborated.Finally,the remaining challenges for further enhancements of OER performance induced by high valence metals are presented.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21701107, 51672165)Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2019JQ-018)+3 种基金Doctoral Scientific Research Startup Foundation of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (2016QNBT-07)Platform construction Fund for Imported talent of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (134080038)National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFB0308300)Xi’an Key Laboratory of Green Manufacture of Ceramic materials Foundation (2019220214SYS017CG039)。
文摘Developing the highly active, cost-effective, environmental-friendly, and ultra-stable nonprecious electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) is distinctly indispensable for the large-scale practical applications of hydrolytic hydrogen production. Herein, we report the synthesis of well-integrated electrode, NiV layered double hydroxide nanosheet array grown in-situ on porous nickel foam(abbreviated as in-NiV-LDH/NF) via the facile one-step hydrothermal route. Interestingly, the valence configuration of vanadium(V) sites in such NiV-LDH are well dominated by the innovative use of NF as the reducing regulator, achieving the reassembled in-NiV-LDH/NF with a high proportion of trivalent V ions(V3+), and then an enhanced intrinsic electrocatalytic HER activity. The HER testing results show that the in-NiVLDH/NF drives the current densities of 10 and 100 mA cm-2 at extremely low overpotentials of 114 and 245 mV without iR-compensation respectively, even outperforms commercial 20 wt% Pt/C at the large current density of over 80 mA cm-2 in alkaline media, as well as gives robust catalytic durability of at least 100 h in both alkaline and neutral media. More importantly, this work provides a fresh perspective for designing bimetal(oxy) hydroxides electrocatalysts with efficient hydrogen generation.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(21978325,21776312,22078364)Key research and development plan of Shandong Province(2019RKE28003,2018GGX107005)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(18CX02014A).
文摘Engineering unique electronic structure of catalyst to boost catalytic performance is of prime scientific and industrial importance.Herein,the identification of intrinsic electronic sensitivity for direct propene epoxidation was first achieved over highly stable Au/wormhole-like TS-1 catalyst.Results show that the electron transfer of Au species can be regulated by manipulating the dynamic evolutions and contents of Au valence states,thus resulting in different catalytic performance in 100 h time-on-stream.By DFT calculations,kinetic analysis and multicharacterizations,it is found that the Au^(0) species with higher electronic population can easily transfer more electrons to activate surface O_(2) compared with Au^(1+) and Au^(3+) species.Moreover,there is a positive correlation between Au^(0) content and activity.Based on this correlation,a facile strategy is further proposed to boost Au^(0) percentage,resulting in the reported highest PO formation rate without adding promoters.This work harbors tremendous guiding significance to the design of highly efficient Au/Ti-containing catalyst for propene epoxidation with H_(2) and O_(2).
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(No.2022J05269)the Research Project of Ningde Normal University(No.2020Y016)+1 种基金the Education&Research Project for Young and Middle-aged Teachers of Fujian(No.JAT200698)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22302154 and 22372085)。
文摘Metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)are highly desirable for promising photocatalytic water splitting,but their practical application is greatly limited due to their unstable chemical properties and insufficient visible light response as well as low charge-carries utilization,especially in photocatalytic O_(2)production.Herein,we present a post-modification engineering to modulate cerium metalorganic frameworks(Ce-MOFs)for realizing efficient photocatalytic water oxidation to liberate O_(2)by visible light.The one-step partial oxidation strategy is adopted to modify pristine Ce-MOFs,yielding the new Ce-MOFs(MV-Ce-MOFs)with mixed valence of Ce^(3+)/Ce^(4+).Creating the Ce nodes of a mixed valence state can effectively extend the optical absorption to the visible region,expose more catalytically active sites and inhibit the recombination of photoinduced charges.Consequently,the MV-Ce-MOFs exhibit high activity for photocatalytic O_(2)evolution under visible light,manifesting an impressive1.6%apparent quantum efficiency(AQY)under monochromatic irradiation of 405 nm.The regulation engineering of MOF metal node valence heralds a new paradigm for designing MOF-based photocatalysts.
基金supported through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT(2022M3H4A1A04096478)the support from the Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University。
文摘Electrocatalyst designs based on oxophilic foreign atoms are considered a promising approach for developing efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)electrocatalysts by overcoming the sluggish alkaline HER kinetics.Here,we design ternary transition metals-based nickel telluride(Mo WNi Te)catalysts consisting of high valence non-3d Mo and W metals and oxophilic Te as a first demonstration of non-precious heterogeneous electrocatalysts following the bifunctional mechanism.The Mo WNi Te showed excellent HER catalytic performance with overpotentials of 72,125,and 182 mV to reach the current densities of 10,100,and 1000 mA cm^(-2),respectively,and the corresponding Tafel slope of 47,52,and 58 mV dec-1in alkaline media,which is much superior to commercial Pt/C.Additionally,the HER performance of Mo WNi Te is well maintained up to 3000 h at the current density of 100 mA cm^(-2).It is further demonstrated that the Mo WNi Te exhibits remarkable HER activities with an overpotential of 45 mV(31 mV)and Tafel slope of 60 mV dec-1(34 mV dec-1)at 10 mA cm^(-2)in neutral(acid)media.The superior HER performance of Mo WNi Te is attributed to the electronic structure modulation,inducing highly active low valence states by the incorporation of high valence non-3d transition metals.It is also attributed to the oxophilic effect of Te,accelerating water dissociation kinetics through a bifunctional catalytic mechanism in alkaline media.Density functional theory calculations further reveal that such synergistic effects lead to reduced free energy for an efficient water dissociation process,resulting in remarkable HER catalytic performances within universal pH environments.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51772176)the Science and Technology Development Project of Shandong Province (No.2019JZZY010303)the Shandong Natural Science(No. ZR2015EM013)。
文摘Defect existing form and its evolution play an important role in the thermoelectric transport process. Here different forms of Pb into the Sn Se system were introduced in order to improve the thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Sn Se. Pb/Sn Se samples were fabricated by vacuum melting, solid phase diffusion,spark plasma sintering and annealing treatment. The element valence mapping diagram and the X-ray photoelectron spectra(XPS) characteristic peaks of Pb show that a certain amount of elemental Pb exists in the initial state, and evolves into Pb^(2+)ion after annealing treatment. The micro-structure evolution leads to significant enhancement of the power factor and the ZT value. The power factor(PF) and the ZT value for Pb/Sn Se increases to 623 μW/m/K^(2) and 1.12 at 773 K after annealing treatment, respectively.Compared with Sn Se matrix, the hardness and fracture toughness of Pb/Sn Se samples increased by about40% and 10%, respectively. Reasonable control of microstructure evolution is expected to be a design idea to improve thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Sn Se.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China(Nos.21690064,22001031)Key Laboratory of Bio-based Chemicals of Liaoning Province of China,the“111”project of the Ministry of Education of China and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.DUT19RC(3)013).
文摘Low-valence transition metallic complexes have drawn longstanding attention due to their high reactivity toward catalytic transformation of various small molecules.Among these known complexes,the low-valence metal centres are commonly stabilized by neutral bulky ligands with strong electron-donating capacity.However,low-valence bimetallic complexes supported by anionic sulfur and cyclopentadienyl ligands are still difficult to obtain in high isolated yield.Herein,we report the synthesis and characteri-zation of two scarce thiolate-bridged Co^(I)Co^(II)and Co^(I)Co^(I)complexes bearing sterically demanding ligands through two stepwise one-electron reduction processes.Interestingly,the Co^(I)Co^(II)complex can facilely promote the homolytic cleavage of dihydrogen across the short Co−Co metallic bond to give a Co^(II)Co III dihydride bridged complex,which is capable of serving as a competent hydrogen atom transfer agent.Moreover,the anionic Co^(I)Co^(I)complex can trigger a stepwise hydrogen generation cycle involving several isolated and structurally well-characterized intermediates.
