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Frontispiece: Bioinspired Transition‐Metal Complexes as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Author(s) -
Zhao YeMin,
Yu GuoQiang,
Wang FeiFei,
Wei PingJie,
Liu JinGang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201981563
Subject(s) - oxygen reduction , oxygen reduction reaction , nanotechnology , cobalt , transition metal , catalysis , materials science , precious metal , fuel cells , electrocatalyst , energy transformation , metal , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , chemical engineering , metallurgy , electrode , electrochemistry , engineering , organic chemistry , physics , thermodynamics
For the alleviation of global warming and the energy crisis , the development of high‐performance electrocatalysts for the ORR for application in energy conversion and storage devices such as metal–air batteries and fuel cells is highly desirable. In this Review article by J.‐G. Liu et al. on page 3726 ff., an outline into recent progress on non‐precious‐metal electrocatalysts for the ORR is provided with a focus on iron/cobalt macrocycles (porphyrins, phthalocyanines, and corroles) and copper complexes in which the ORR activity is tuned by ligand variation/substitution, the method of catalyst immobilization, and the underlying supporting materials. Current challenges and exciting imminent developments in bioinspired ORR electrocatalysts are also summarized and proposed.