Open Access2021 Roadmap: electrocatalysts for green catalytic processes
Author(s) -
Jiandong Liu,
Jianmin Ma,
Zhicheng Zhang,
Yuchen Qin,
Yanjie Wang,
Yao Wang,
Rou Tan,
Xiaochuan Duan,
Tian Tong,
Cai Hong Zhang,
Wen Xie,
Nianwu Li,
Le Yu,
Chenhuai Yang,
Yanyan Zhao,
Hamna Zia,
Farhat Nosheen,
Guangchao Zheng,
Suraj Gupta,
Xianhong Wu,
Zhiyu Wang,
Jieshan Qiu,
Guangyao Zhou,
Lin Xu,
Kang Liu,
Junwei Fu,
Min Liu,
SangIl Choi,
Junfeng Xie,
Xinwen Peng,
Tingzhen Li,
Gaoxin Lin,
Jiacheng Wang,
Jingrui Han,
Hongyan Liang,
Shuyu Li,
Xiaotao Zhang,
Yating Zhu,
Ting He,
Xiaoya Cui,
Haiqing Wang,
Zengxi Wei,
Quanhui Liu,
Guangyin Fan,
Qian Liu,
Xuping Sun,
Yuezhan Feng,
Yaping Liu,
Ke Chu,
Yuan Qiu,
Xijun Liu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jphys materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2515-7639
DOI - 10.1088/2515-7639/abd596
Subject(s) - water splitting , catalysis , transition metal , carbide , metal , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , electrocatalyst , carbon fibers , materials science , nanotechnology , electrochemistry , metallurgy , electrode , photocatalysis , organic chemistry , composite material , composite number
Serious challenges in energy and the environment require us to find solutions that use sustainable processes. There are many sustainable electrocatalytic processes that might provide the answers to the above-mentioned challenges, such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), water splitting, the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO 2 RR), and the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). These reactions can enhance the value added by producing hydrogen energy through water splitting or convert useless CO 2 and N 2 into fuels and NH 3 . These electrocatalytic reactions can be driven by high-performance catalysts. Therefore, the exploration of novel electrocatalysts is one of the important electrocatalytic fields. In this paper, we aim to systematically discuss a variety of electrocatalysts used for sustainable processes and to give further insights into their status and associated challenges. We invited many famous research groups to write this roadmap with topics including platinum (Pt) and its alloys for ORR, oxides for ORR, chalcogenides for ORR, carbon-based hollow electrocatalysts for ORR, carbides for ORR, atomically dispersed Fe–N–C catalysts for ORR, metal-free catalysts for ORR, single-atom catalysts (SACs) for ORR, metal boride (MB) electrocatalysts for water splitting, transitional metal carbides (TMCs) for water splitting, transition metal (TM) phosphides for water splitting, oxides for water splitting, sulfides for water splitting, layered double hydroxides for water splitting, carbon-based electrocatalysts for water splitting, Ru-based electrocatalysts for water splitting, metal oxides for CO 2 RR, metal sulfides for CO 2 RR, metals for CO 2 RR, carbon for CO 2 RR, SACs for CO 2 RR, heterogeneous molecular catalysts for CO 2 RR, oxides for NRR, chalcogenides for NRR, C 3 N 4 for NRR, SACs for NRR, etc. Their contributions enabled us to compile this 2020 roadmap on electrocatalysts for green catalytic processes and provide some suggestions for future researchers.