Guiru Zhang , Xianxian Qin , Chengwei Deng , Wen-Bin Cai , Kun Jiang
{"title":"Electrocatalytic CO2 and HCOOH interconversion on Pd-based catalysts","authors":"Guiru Zhang , Xianxian Qin , Chengwei Deng , Wen-Bin Cai , Kun Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electrochemical energy storage and conversion toward sustainable carbon neutrality cycle is of great interest in today's society. In this perspective, we highlight the interconversion between carbon dioxide and formic acid by means of electrocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction (CO<sub>2</sub>RR) and formic acid oxidation reaction (FAOR) as an effective way to achieve that goal. In line with the distinctive catalytic nature of Pd to reversibly drive both FAOR and CO<sub>2</sub>RR, we first illustrate the intimate mechanistic relation between these two reversed reactions over Pd surfaces. Next, recent advances in developing Pd-based bifunctional catalysts and relevant optimization strategies are briefly summarized, including geometric structure engineering with preferential facet exposure, construction of crystallographic ordering intermetallic, electronic structure manipulation through metal or metalloid doping to fine tune the binding strength for active and poisoning intermediates. At the end, our viewpoints on the design principles at both microscopic and macroscopic scales are offered toward an efficient CO<sub>2</sub> and HCOOH interconversion loop.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000073/pdfft?md5=891cc43be42d1d06205bd82a0c42b852&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000073-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73736787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microdroplet biosensors: Towards industrialization","authors":"Xiaoyu Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000152/pdfft?md5=1c62bf2f9c9586bc471ba28734aaee37&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000152-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82229017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chang-Shuai Shang , Jing Li , Shao-Jun Guo , Er-Kang Wang
{"title":"Aldehyde replacement advances efficient hydrogen production in electrolyser","authors":"Chang-Shuai Shang , Jing Li , Shao-Jun Guo , Er-Kang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The high energy consumption and production of undesired oxygen greatly restrict the wide adoption of water electrolysis for hydrogen production. In a paper recently published in <em>Nature Catalysis</em>, Wang and coworkers rationally introduce aldehydes for oxidation at anode to replace oxygen evolution reaction, which can produce hydrogen and value-added products at low potential, realizing efficient bipolar hydrogen production with high-purity. Moreover, these aldehydes are biomass-derived and contribute to sustainable hydrogen production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000012/pdfft?md5=0d6ff425f23a61dd99354512c80ef0e2&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000012-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88846091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhao-Lin Na , Xin-Ran Wang , Xiao-Ting Liu , Wen-Jing Li , Jing Sun , Xu-Dong Sun , Gang Huang
{"title":"Suspended hydrophilic carbon anodes to enable fully flowable cerium–metal hybrid flow batteries","authors":"Zhao-Lin Na , Xin-Ran Wang , Xiao-Ting Liu , Wen-Jing Li , Jing Sun , Xu-Dong Sun , Gang Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hybrid redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a special type of RFBs that involve depositing reactions on negative electrodes. The available volume in negative electrodes for cell stacks limits the totally energy-storing capability of these batteries. This paper introduces the first fully flowable Ce–metal flow battery operated with a semisolid, flowable anolyte. Using the semisolid fuel cell concept, we incorporate the sustainable and deposit-abundant features of non-Li-based batteries into the structure of RFBs to develop a fully flowable RFB system. Solid suspension electrodes of hydrophilic carbon particles deposited by earth-abundant metals with redox activity are investigated as alternatives to the redox-active molecules employed in typical RFBs to decouple the power delivery capability from the energy storage capacity in fully flowable RFBs. While being charged, earth-abundant redox-active metal (Cu, Pb or Zn) is electrodeposited on the carbon particle suspension, which is dissolved in the sequent discharging process. On the basis of the proposed contact-charge-transfer mechanism, the electrical contact to the solid suspension electrode is fed by the redox-inert hydrophobic current collector that restrains direct metal deposition on their surfaces due to the hydrophobicity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000048/pdfft?md5=669f7277903a0c068c99251a82d4d92b&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000048-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90256712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel “Rubber” electrolyte will be applied to long-lasting, safer future EV batteries","authors":"Xuan Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Solid-state lithium metal batteries (LMBs) have become a potential component, as they provide a considerable safety upgrade by eliminating flammable organic solvents. Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are also a promising candidate, owing to their non-toxicity, low-manufacturing cost, and comparatively soft nature that allows the development of a seamless interface with the electrodes. Polymerization-induced phase separation (PIPS) controls the connectivity of phase-separated structures and domain size, enabling the co-continuous nanostructures’ formation. Researchers of a study published in Nature envisioned that outstanding mechanical and ionic properties could be realized, provided ionic conducting materials form a 3D interconnected phase inside a mechanically strong elastomer matrix via PIPS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000024/pdfft?md5=625bdd8773b1720d69fcb61315d442e1&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000024-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89321651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peng Rao , Tian-Jiao Wang , Jing Li , Pei-Lin Deng , Yi-Jun Shen , Yu Chen , Xin-Long Tian
{"title":"Plasma induced Fe-NX active sites to improve the oxygen reduction reaction performance","authors":"Peng Rao , Tian-Jiao Wang , Jing Li , Pei-Lin Deng , Yi-Jun Shen , Yu Chen , Xin-Long Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rational design of high-efficient and low-cost catalysts as alternatives to Pt-based catalysts toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is extremely desirable but challenging. In this work, Fe@NCNT is firstly synthesized via the one-pot pyrolysis method, then Fe-N<sub><em>X</em></sub> active species are <em>in-situ</em> created on the prepared Fe@NCNT by a feasible “plasma inducing” strategy to synthesize the resulting catalyst (Fe@NCNT-P) for ORR. The morphology of Fe@NCNT-P is perfectly inherited by the derived carbon precursor, resulting in the core-shell structure of carbon-coated Fe and a mesoporous dominant nanostructure with a high specific surface area of 536 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>. The resultant Fe@NCNT-P catalyst exhibits remarkable ORR activity and durability, as well as outstanding performance in assembled zinc-air battery (ZAB) test with a peak power density of 240 mW cm<sup>−2</sup>. This work not only reports a novel and robust ORR catalyst, but also proposes a simple and effective strategy to improve the ORR electrocatalytic performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X2200005X/pdfft?md5=f54efd5266ecc524502600d42e344a4b&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X2200005X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82249943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magneto-chiral detection of reactive oxygen species","authors":"Shaowei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asems.2022.100003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100036,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Sensor and Energy Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773045X22000036/pdfft?md5=1bb2fa86beedd842737cccad641fa184&pid=1-s2.0-S2773045X22000036-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88806178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}