Publications by authors named "Taiyan Zhang"

Organic-inorganic metal halides (OIMHs) with room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) properties have aroused great research enthusiasm as outstanding broadband white-light emitters. Current studies on OIMHs with white-light emission were achieved via self-trapped excitons (STEs), but the unclear mechanism of STE formation is not favorable for the design of materials. In this work, zero-dimensional OIMHs composed of organic 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylamine (TBA) and zine halide were synthesized, which enhanced the ratio of the RTP emission to the fluorescence emission from the TBA ligand.

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  • Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key challenge in water splitting for hydrogen production, with dual-site catalysts (DSCs) showing greater potential than single-site catalysts due to beneficial interactions between two metals.
  • Researchers created two configurations of iron-cobalt dual-sites: stereo-Fe-Co and planar-Fe-Co, finding that the planar configuration outperformed the stereo version in OER efficiency.
  • The study utilized various experimental techniques to show that the planar-Fe-Co DSC promotes an effective coupling of *O intermediates to form *O-O*, enhancing catalytic performance by addressing the limitations of the four-electron transfer process typical in OER.
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Developing cost-effective and sustainable acidic water oxidation catalysts requires significant advances in material design and in-depth mechanism understanding for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis. Herein, we developed a single atom regulatory strategy to construct Co-Co dinuclear active sites (DASs) catalysts that atomically dispersed zirconium doped Co S /Co O heterostructure. The X-ray absorption fine structure elucidated the incorporation of Zr greatly facilitated the generation of Co-Co DASs layer with stretching of cobalt oxygen bond and S-Co-O heterogeneous grain boundaries interfaces, engineering attractive activity of significantly reduced overpotential of 75 mV at 10 mA cm , a breakthrough of 500 mA cm high current density, and water splitting stability of 500 hours in acid, making it one of the best-performing acid-stable OER non-noble metal materials.

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