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Guiding Principles for Designing Highly Efficient Metal‐Free Carbon Catalysts
Author(s) -
Zhang Lipeng,
Lin ChunYu,
Zhang Detao,
Gong Lele,
Zhu Yonghao,
Zhao Zhenghang,
Xu Quan,
Li Hejun,
Xia Zhenhai
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201805252
Subject(s) - catalysis , materials science , rational design , carbon fibers , nanotechnology , nanomaterials , electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide , water splitting , chemical energy , oxygen evolution , process engineering , electrochemistry , carbon monoxide , photocatalysis , chemistry , organic chemistry , electrode , composite number , composite material , engineering
Carbon nanomaterials are promising metal‐free catalysts for energy conversion and storage, but the catalysts are usually developed via traditional trial‐and‐error methods. To rationally design and accelerate the search for the highly efficient catalysts, it is necessary to establish design principles for the carbon‐based catalysts. Here, theoretical analysis and material design of metal‐free carbon nanomaterials as efficient photo‐/electrocatalysts to facilitate the critical chemical reactions in clean and sustainable energy technologies are reviewed. These reactions include the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells, the oxygen evolution reaction in metal–air batteries, the iodine reduction reaction in dye‐sensitized solar cells, the hydrogen evolution reaction in water splitting, and the carbon dioxide reduction in artificial photosynthesis. Basic catalytic principles, computationally guided design approaches and intrinsic descriptors, catalytic material design strategies, and future directions are discussed for the rational design and synthesis of highly efficient carbon‐based catalysts for clean energy technologies.