Rare earths evoked gradient orbital coupling in electrocatalysis: Recent advances and future perspectives

IF 40 1区材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Progress in Materials Science Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2025.101539

Xuan Wang , Meng Li , Yawen Tang , Hao Li , Gengtao Fu

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Rare earths (RE) have garnered significant attention in electrocatalysis due to their unique ability to modulate electronic structure of host materials. The gradient orbital coupling (GOC) based on f-p-d orbital interaction has recently been proposed to explain the key reason for RE-enhanced electrocatalysis. However, a systematic review elaborating the critical role of GOC in electrocatalysis remains lacking. Herein, this review presents a timely and comprehensive summary of GOC breakthroughs in RE-based electrocatalysts and highlights their key role in electrocatalysis. It begins by introducing the fundamentals of GOC. We further discuss the most recent progress in tuning the electronic state of metal active centers by GOC for various electrocatalytic reactions including oxygen electrocatalysis, hydrogen evolution, carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen oxidation and urea oxidation. From GOC insight, this discussion of electrochemical performances and intrinsic catalytic mechanisms favors the construction of RE-evoked structure-performance relationship. At the end, we discuss the challenges and potential future directions for research related to the GOC. We hope this review will inspire novel designs and a deeper understanding of RE-based electrocatalysts.

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稀土诱发电催化中的梯度轨道耦合：最新进展和未来展望

稀土以其独特的调节主体材料电子结构的能力在电催化领域引起了广泛的关注。基于f-p-d轨道相互作用的梯度轨道耦合（GOC）最近被提出来解释re增强电催化的关键原因。然而，对GOC在电催化中的关键作用的系统综述仍然缺乏。本文对稀土基电催化剂的GOC研究进展进行了及时、全面的综述，并重点介绍了稀土基电催化剂在电催化中的重要作用。首先介绍GOC的基本原理。我们进一步讨论了GOC在各种电催化反应中调节金属活性中心电子态的最新进展，包括氧电催化、析氢、二氧化碳还原、氮氧化和尿素氧化。从GOC的视角出发，对电化学性能和内在催化机制的讨论有利于构建re诱发的结构-性能关系。最后，我们讨论了GOC相关研究的挑战和潜在的未来方向。我们希望这一综述将启发新的设计和对re基电催化剂的更深入的了解。

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Progress in Materials Science 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

59.60

自引率

0.80%

发文量

101

审稿时长

11.4 months

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