Publications by authors named "Chun-hua Zhen"

Article Synopsis
  • * It introduces a concept of specific interfacial area to assess solid-solid interactions at a meso-scale, and examines two interaction types—van der Waals and covalent—with a focus on their roles in enhancing electrocatalytic efficiency.
  • * The piece provides guidelines for creating effective solid-solid interfaces that boost electron transfer and stability, while also highlighting how interfacial electron behavior affects the electronic structure and activity of catalytic sites.*
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Carbon coating layers have been found to improve the catalytic performance of transition metals, which is usually explained as an outcome of electronic synergistic effect. Herein we reveal that the defective graphitic carbon, with a unique interlayer gap of 0.342 nm, can be a highly selective natural molecular sieve.

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Electrocatalytic properties of three electrodes for formic acid oxidation were studied by using electrochemical in situ FTIR spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry in this paper. It is demonstrated that the electrocatalytical mechanism of formic acid oxidation on platinum-dispersed carbon(Pt/GC) is similar to that on massive platinum, which involves two paths, i.e.

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