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}