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Nano-Scale Engineering of Heterojunction for Alkaline Water Electrolysis (2023)
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Chen, Y., Xu, Z., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Nano-Scale Engineering of Heterojunction for Alkaline Water Electrolysis. Materials, 17(1), Article 199. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17010199

Alkaline water electrolysis is promising for low-cost and scalable hydrogen production. Renewable energy-driven alkaline water electrolysis requires highly effective electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen evolution... Read More about Nano-Scale Engineering of Heterojunction for Alkaline Water Electrolysis.

Chemical Scissor Medicated Intercalation of NbS2 by Transition Metal for Electromagnetic Properties Tuning (2023)
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Gao, L., Li, M., Wang, L., Chen, G. Z., Yang, H., Hu, B., & Huang, Q. (2024). Chemical Scissor Medicated Intercalation of NbS2 by Transition Metal for Electromagnetic Properties Tuning. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(13), Article 2313243. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202313243

Intercalation of layered materials offers an effective approach for tunning their structures and generating unprecedented properties. The multiple van der Waals (vdW) gap combined with long‐range ordering guests can change the interaction of layered... Read More about Chemical Scissor Medicated Intercalation of NbS2 by Transition Metal for Electromagnetic Properties Tuning.

Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries (2023)
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Guo, Q., Fan, P., Zhang, Y., Guan, L., Croft, A., Wang, H., Croft, A. K., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries. RSC Sustainability, 2024(2), 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3su00197k

The full oxidation of lithium metal (4Li + O2 ⇌ 2Li2O) offers a mass normalised Gibbs energy change greater than that for the combustion of carbon (C + O2 ⇌ CO2) or any hydrocarbon fuel (CnH2n+2 + ((3n+1)/2)O2 ⇌ nCO2 + (n+1)H2O). This thermodynamic c... Read More about Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid salts for supercapatteries.

Dimensionally-controlled interlayer spaces of covalent organic frameworks for the oxygen evolution reaction (2023)
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Liu, M., Fu, Y., Bi, S., Yang, S., Yang, X., Li, X., Chen, G. Z., He, J., Xu, Q., & Zeng, G. (2023). Dimensionally-controlled interlayer spaces of covalent organic frameworks for the oxygen evolution reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 479, 147682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.147682

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been employed to catalyze the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). However, their catalytic activities have been limited, because their narrow interlayer space hindered the mass transport to the catalytic sites. He... Read More about Dimensionally-controlled interlayer spaces of covalent organic frameworks for the oxygen evolution reaction.

Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery (2023)
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Liu, M., Jiang, D., Fu, Y., Zheng Chen, G., Bi, S., Ding, X., He, J., Han, B., Xu, Q., & Zeng, G. (2024). Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(1), Article e202317015. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202317015

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have attracted considerable attention as adsorbents for capturing and separating gold from electronic wastes. To enhance the binding capture efficiency, constructing hydrogen-bond nanotraps along the pore walls was... Read More about Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery.

Facile synthesis of multi-layer Co(OH)2/CeO2-g-C3N4 ternary synergistic heterostructure for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of NO under visible light (2023)
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Xiao, Z., Do, H., Yusuf, A., Jia, H., Ma, H., Jiang, S., Li, J., Sun, Y., Wang, C., Ren, Y., Chen, G. Z., & He, J. (2024). Facile synthesis of multi-layer Co(OH)2/CeO2-g-C3N4 ternary synergistic heterostructure for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of NO under visible light. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 462, Article 132744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132744

In this work, we report a one-step synthesis of ternary Z-scheme Co(OH)2/CeO2-g-C3N4 (CoCe-CN) heterostructure via hydrothermal method. Owing to the modification of Co(OH)2 and CeO2, the existence of Co(OH)2 as an electron acceptor-donor center betwe... Read More about Facile synthesis of multi-layer Co(OH)2/CeO2-g-C3N4 ternary synergistic heterostructure for efficient photocatalytic oxidation of NO under visible light.

A comparative study on silicon-based negatrode materials in metallic cavity electrode and button half cell — Uncovering unseen microscopic and dynamic features (2023)
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Tan, Y., Xiong, Q., Jiang, T., Tang, F., Zhou, Y., & Chen, G. Z. (2023). A comparative study on silicon-based negatrode materials in metallic cavity electrode and button half cell — Uncovering unseen microscopic and dynamic features. Journal of Energy Storage, 73(Part A), Article 108854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.108854

The electrochemical characterization of lithium storage materials using the button cell is commonplace, but it is also tedious and time-consuming. Also, the results are often affected by the use of the binders and separator membranes, and by the elec... Read More about A comparative study on silicon-based negatrode materials in metallic cavity electrode and button half cell — Uncovering unseen microscopic and dynamic features.

Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction (2023)
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Liu, M., Zhao, X., Yang, S., Yang, X., Li, X., He, J., Chen, G. Z., Xu, Q., & Zeng, G. (2023). Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15(37), 44384-44393. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c10802

It is generally assumed that the more metal atoms in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) contribute to higher activity toward electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2RR) and hindered us in exploring the correlation between the density of catalyt... Read More about Modulating the Density of Catalytic Sites in Multiple-Component Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction.

Weldable and electrochemically stable composite of graphene and polyvinylidene fluoride as a current collector for promoting reversible lithium plating/stripping (2023)
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Guo, Q., Wang, S., Li, Y., Wang, J., Wu, Y., Yu, Y., Xia, S., Hu, D., Hu, B., Ye, Z., Zhou, X., Chen, G. Z., & Liu, Z. (2023). Weldable and electrochemically stable composite of graphene and polyvinylidene fluoride as a current collector for promoting reversible lithium plating/stripping. Journal of Power Sources, 580, Article 233401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233401

Cu foils are physically heavy and chemically inappropriate for lithium metal rechargeable batteries with lithium-metal-free negatrode (LMFRBs). Physically light carbon-based current collectors (CBCCs) with high conductivity and stro... Read More about Weldable and electrochemically stable composite of graphene and polyvinylidene fluoride as a current collector for promoting reversible lithium plating/stripping.

Post-synthetic modification of covalent organic frameworks for CO 2 electroreduction (2023)
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Liu, M., Yang, S., Yang, X., Cui, C. X., Liu, G., Li, X., He, J., Chen, G. Z., Xu, Q., & Zeng, G. (2023). Post-synthetic modification of covalent organic frameworks for CO 2 electroreduction. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 3800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39544-9

To achieve high-efficiency catalysts for CO2 reduction reaction, various catalytic metal centres and linker molecules have been assembled into covalent organic frameworks. The amine-linkages enhance the binding ability of CO2 molecules, and the ionic... Read More about Post-synthetic modification of covalent organic frameworks for CO 2 electroreduction.