DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100112

Zhao Li , Xinde Wei , Zhaozhao Zhu , Wu Jiang , Yangwu Hou , Rui Yuan , Yan Wang , Dong Xie , Junjie Wang , Yingxi Lin , Rui Wu , Qingquan Kong , Jun Song Chen

{"title":"Synthesis, characterizations, and structure-activity relationship of dual-atom catalysts for CO2 electroreduction","authors":"Zhao Li , Xinde Wei , Zhaozhao Zhu , Wu Jiang , Yangwu Hou , Rui Yuan , Yan Wang , Dong Xie , Junjie Wang , Yingxi Lin , Rui Wu , Qingquan Kong , Jun Song Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction is one of the very effective ways to achieve carbon neutrality, by converting CO<sub>2</sub> into fuels and high-value chemicals. Therefore, it is crucial to design efficient CO<sub>2</sub> reduction electrocatalysts and understand their reaction mechanism. Among various catalysts, dual-atom catalysts (DACs) offer several advantages, including a wide range of reaction types, high stability, customizable design, high reaction selectivity, tunable electronic structure, and strong catalytic activity. It is thus crucial to understand the reaction mechanism of DACs in CO<sub>2</sub> reduction, especially the regulation of critical intermediates. In this review, we focus on the synthesis, structure-activity relationship, and application of DACs. Finally, some challenges and further prospects are also summarized, especially in terms of stability, product selectivity, and large-scale deployment. With the advancement of new materials and computational tools, DACs are poised to play increasingly important roles in CO<sub>2</sub> reduction, providing effective solutions for sustainable energy and environmental protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recent advances of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol 二氧化碳加氢制甲醇的研究进展

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100111

Feng Hong , Yanan Qi , Zuodong Yang , Lijun Yu , Xiaoguang Guan , Jiangyong Diao , Bo Sun , Hongyang Liu

{"title":"Recent advances of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol","authors":"Feng Hong , Yanan Qi , Zuodong Yang , Lijun Yu , Xiaoguang Guan , Jiangyong Diao , Bo Sun , Hongyang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasingly serious climate issue compels urgent greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. As a budget, plentiful, renewable feedstock and major contributor to global warming, the large-scale catalytic transformation of CO<sub>2</sub> has attracted widespread attention from society due to its potential as a solution to the environment and energy crises. At present, catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to organic chemicals is the primary approach in its industrial applications. In recent decades, various materials containing Cu-, precious metal-, In-, Zn-, and Ga-based catalysts have been designed for CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation to methanol. Likewise, great advances have been made in CO<sub>2</sub>-to-chemicals, such as olefins, aromatics, and gasoline by combining CO<sub>2</sub>-to-CH<sub>3</sub>OH with methanol transformation or tandem reaction of reverse water-gas shift and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. This review exhibits the recent advances in the hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub>-to-CH<sub>3</sub>OH including the catalyst system, CO<sub>2</sub> activation, nature of active sites, intermediate species (formate or carboxyl), structure-activity relationship, and reaction mechanism. Finally, challenges and outlooks in CO<sub>2</sub> hydrogenation to methanol are summarized.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The recent progress of high-entropy layered double hydroxides and high-entropy amorphous materials for water electrocatalysis 高熵层状双氢氧化物和高熵非晶态水电催化材料的研究进展

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100110

Tadele Hunde Wondimu , Zuo Yong , Akeel A. Shah , Puiki Leung , Yilkal Dessie , Filimon Hadish Abraha , Cristina Flox , Qiang Liao

{"title":"The recent progress of high-entropy layered double hydroxides and high-entropy amorphous materials for water electrocatalysis","authors":"Tadele Hunde Wondimu , Zuo Yong , Akeel A. Shah , Puiki Leung , Yilkal Dessie , Filimon Hadish Abraha , Cristina Flox , Qiang Liao","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High-entropy materials (HEMs), which are typically composed of five or more elements in near-equimolar ratios with concentrations ranging from 5 % to 35 %, have distinct elemental compositions and geometric properties that allow for the development of advanced electrocatalysts for renewable energy conversion systems. The high-entropy effect, crystal dislocations, cocktail effect, and slow diffusion in high-entropy layered double hydroxides (HE-LDHs) and amorphous materials (HE-AMs) have all been shown to boost electrocatalytic water oxidation performance significantly. These materials exhibit remarkable activity and stability in both alkaline and acidic conditions. HE-AMs, in particular, benefit from a variety of defects, including coordinatively unsaturated sites and loosely connected atoms, which are critical to their improved catalytic capabilities. HEMs engineering and precise nanostructure control can address the low intrinsic activity, restricted active sites, and poor conductivity of binary and ternary amorphous and LDH catalysts. This study discusses current advances in HE-LDHs and HE-AMs for water electrolysis, including synthesis methods, structural features, active site identification by DFT calculations, and their applications in water electrocatalysis. The presentation also covers potential problems and future directions for developing these materials in energy conversion device systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143917479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Progress and future of CO2 conversion based on plasma catalysis 基于等离子体催化的CO2转化研究进展与展望

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100109

Lefei Cao, Fei Qi, Nan Zhang, Yayun Pu, Xiaosheng Tang, Qiang Huang

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DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100108

Chao Wu , Ying Tang , Anqi Zou , Junhua Li , Haoyan Meng , Feng Gao , Jiagang Wu , Xiaopeng Wang

{"title":"Recommended electrochemical measurement protocol for oxygen evolution reaction","authors":"Chao Wu , Ying Tang , Anqi Zou , Junhua Li , Haoyan Meng , Feng Gao , Jiagang Wu , Xiaopeng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Developing highly active and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts necessitates the establishment of a comprehensive OER catalyst database. However, the absence of a standardized benchmarking protocol has hindered this progress. In this work, we present a systematic protocol for electrochemical measurements to thoroughly evaluate the activity and stability of OER electrocatalysts. We begin with a detailed introduction to constructing the electrochemical system, encompassing experimental setup and the selection criteria for electrodes and electrolytes. Potential contaminants originating from electrolytes, cells, and electrodes are identified and their impacts are discussed. We also examine the effects of external factors, such as temperature, magnetic fields, and natural light, on OER measurements. The protocol outlines operational mechanisms and recommended settings for various electrochemical techniques, including cyclic voltammetry (CV), potentiostatic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (PEIS), Tafel slope analysis, and pulse voltammetry (PV). We summarize existing evaluation methodologies for assessing intrinsic activities and long-term stabilities of catalysts. Based on these discussions, we propose a comprehensive protocol for evaluating OER electrocatalysts’ performance. Finally, we offer perspectives on advancing OER catalysts from laboratory research to industrial applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recent advances in interfacial engineering for high-efficiency perovskite photovoltaics 高效钙钛矿光伏电池界面工程研究进展

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100107

Zhijie Wang , Cheng Gong , Cong Zhang , Chenxu Zhao , Tzu-Sen Su , Haiyun Li , Hong Zhang

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Array structured NiAl-layered double hydroxides grown on graphene by atomic layer deposition as chloride-ion battery cathode 用原子层沉积法在石墨烯上生长阵列结构nial层双氢氧化物作为氯离子电池正极

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100106

Guoqing Zhao, Zhen Deng, Gengping Wan, Jinchuan Zhao, Guizhen Wang

{"title":"Array structured NiAl-layered double hydroxides grown on graphene by atomic layer deposition as chloride-ion battery cathode","authors":"Guoqing Zhao, Zhen Deng, Gengping Wan, Jinchuan Zhao, Guizhen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Novel and promising chloride ion batteries (CIBs) that can operate at room temperature have attracted great attentions, due to the sustainable chloride-containing resources and high theoretical energy density. To achieve the superior electrochemical properties of CIBs, the structure design of electrode materials is essential. Herein, 2D NiAl-layered double hydroxide (NiAl-LDH) nanoarrays derived from Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> are in-situ grafted to graphene (G) by atomic layer deposition (ALD) and hydrothermal method. The achieved NiAl-LDH@G hybrids with 2D NiAl-LDH arrays grown perpendicularly on graphene surface, can efficiently prevent the stacking of LDHs and enlarge specific surface area to provide more active sites. The NiAl-LDH@G cathode exhibits a maximum discharge capacity of 223.3 mA h g<sup>−1</sup> and an excellent reversible capacity of 107 mA h g<sup>−1</sup> over 500 cycles at 100 mA g<sup>−1</sup> with a high coulombic efficiency around 96 %, whereas pure NiAl-LDH has a discharge capacity of only 48.8 mA h g<sup>−1</sup> and a coulombic efficiency (CE) of about 78 %. More importantly, the NiAl-LDH@G electrode has a stable voltage at 1.9 V and an outstanding discharge capacity of higher than 72 mA h g<sup>−1</sup> after 120 days. Additionally, XRD, XPS, and EDS have been employed to unveil the electrochemical reaction and Cl<sup>−</sup> storage mechanism of the NiAl-LDH@G cathode in CIBs. This work opens a facile and reasonable way for improving electrochemical performance at anion-type rechargeable batteries in terms of cathode material design and mechanism interpretation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510199","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}

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Challenges and perspectives toward wide-bandgap perovskite subcell in four-terminal all-perovskite tandem solar cells 四端全钙钛矿串联太阳能电池中宽禁带钙钛矿亚电池的挑战与展望

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100098

Hongling Guan , Shiqiang Fu , Weiqing Chen , Weijun Ke , Guojia Fang , Wenlin Feng

{"title":"Challenges and perspectives toward wide-bandgap perovskite subcell in four-terminal all-perovskite tandem solar cells","authors":"Hongling Guan , Shiqiang Fu , Weiqing Chen , Weijun Ke , Guojia Fang , Wenlin Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2025.100098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained remarkable interest owing to their latent applications in tandem solar cells (TSCs). Among them, four-terminal (4T) all-perovskite TSCs have received extensive attention as its do without need to consider current matching, surface roughness, and fabrication processes. However, low open-circuit voltage (<em>V</em><sub>OC</sub>) and efficiency of WBG PSCs obstacles their applications in 4T all-perovskite TSCs. Hence, this review firstly discussed the optimizing strategy in perovskite materials layer and properties. Specifically, we assessed the effect of composition, additive and interface engineering on the efficiency and <em>V</em><sub>OC</sub> of WBG PSCs. Secondly, the demonstrated applications of different passivation layers designing for intensifying the efficiency of WBG PSCs and 4T all-perovskite TSCs is discussed. Finally, we put forward three specific approaches for future research, in our view, which would offer appropriate guidance for the exploitation of highly efficient and stable 4T all-perovskite TSCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100098"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143211942","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}

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Eliminating active CO2 concentration in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCUS): Molten carbonate decarbonization through an insulation/diffusion membrane 消除碳捕集与封存（CCUS）中的活性二氧化碳浓度：熔融碳酸盐通过绝缘/扩散膜脱碳

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2024.100094

Gad Licht , Ethan Peltier , Simon Gee , Stuart Licht

{"title":"Eliminating active CO2 concentration in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCUS): Molten carbonate decarbonization through an insulation/diffusion membrane","authors":"Gad Licht , Ethan Peltier , Simon Gee , Stuart Licht","doi":"10.1016/j.decarb.2024.100094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.decarb.2024.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Present industrial decarbonization technologies require an active CO<sub>2</sub>-concentration system, often based on lime reaction or amine binding reactions, which is energy intensive and carries a high CO<sub>2</sub>-footprint. Here instead, an effective process without active CO<sub>2</sub> concentration is demonstrated in a new process-termed IC2CNT (Insulation-diffusion facilitated CO<sub>2</sub> to Carbon Nanomaterial Technology) decarbonization process. Molten carbonates such as Li<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> (mp 723 °C) are highly insoluble to industrial feed gas principal components (N<sub>2</sub>, O<sub>2</sub>, and H<sub>2</sub>O). However, CO<sub>2</sub> can readily dissolve and react in molten carbonates. We have recently characterized high CO<sub>2</sub> diffusion rates through porous aluminosilicate and calcium-magnesium silicate thermal insulations. Here, the CO<sub>2</sub> in ambient feed gas passes through these membranes into molten Li<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub>. The membrane also concurrently insulates the feed gas from the hot molten carbonate chamber, obviating the need to heat the (non-CO<sub>2</sub>) majority of the feed gas to high temperature. In this insulation facilitated decarbonization process CO<sub>2</sub> is split by electrolysis in the molten carbonate producing sequestered, high-purity carbon nanomaterials (such as CNTs) and O<sub>2</sub>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100356,"journal":{"name":"DeCarbon","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100094"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143209546","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}

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Exploring Ni-based alkaline OER catalysts: A comprehensive review of structures, performance, and in situ characterization methods 探索镍基碱性OER催化剂：结构、性能和原位表征方法的综合综述

DeCarbon Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.decarb.2024.100097

Zhanhong Xiao , Xiaosheng Tang , Feng Gao , Junmin Xue , Xiaopeng Wang

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