Efficient and sustainable water electrolysis achieved by excess electron reservoir enabling charge replenishment to catalysts.

Suppressing the oxidation of active-Ir(III) in IrO catalysts is highly desirable to realize an efficient and durable oxygen evolution reaction in water electrolysis. Although charge replenishment from supports can be effective in preventing the oxidation of IrO catalysts, most supports have inherently limited charge transfer capability. Here, we demonstrate that an excess electron reservoir, which is a charged oxygen species, incorporated in antimony-doped tin oxide supports can effectively control the Ir oxidation states by boosting the charge donations to IrO catalysts.

Hierarchically Assembled Cobalt Oxynitride Nanorods and N-Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis with Exceptional Regenerative Efficiency.

Oxygen-based electrocatalysis is an integral aspect of a clean and sustainable energy conversion/storage system. The development of economic bifunctional electrocatalysts with high activity and durability during reversible reactions remains a great challenge. The tailored porous structure and separately presented active sites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions (ORR and OER) without mutual interference are most crucial for achieving desired bifunctional catalysts.

Thiometallate precursors for the synthesis of supported Pt and PtNi nanoparticle electrocatalysts: Size-focusing by S capping.

Herein, we report for the first time the successful preparation of thiometallate-based precursors for use in a bottom-up synthetic process of supported Pt and PtNi nanoparticle catalyst. This precursor enabled the monodisperse synthesis of supported Pt nanoparticles and the in situ formation of S, which were caught directly in a collection system by the nanoparticle synthetic processes consisting of impregnation and thermal processes. S is proven to act as a capping agent in generating highly stable nanoparticles with the size ranging from 2 nm to 3 nm and further favors the formation of monodispersed particles by solid-state digestive ripening.