Publications by authors named "Renyuan Zhao"

Tuning the electron distribution of metal single-atom active sites bimetallic clusters is an effective way to enhance their hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity, but remains a great challenge. A biochar-based electrocatalyst (BC) with both MnN active sites and MoC/MnC clusters was synthesized using enriched Mo/Mn biomass as a precursor to trigger the HER. Various characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculation results indicated that the presence of MoC/MnC clusters in BC effectively induced the redistribution of charges at MnN sites, reducing the energy of H* activation during the HER.

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