Journal
SMALL
Volume 18, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202105831
Keywords
catalytic active center; electrocatalysis; emerging 2D materials; nanostructures; nanocatalysts; structural design; structural engineering
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFA0110600, 2019YFA0110601]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82071938, 82001824, 82001829, 51903178, 81971622]
- Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Province [2021YFH0087, 2021YFH0135, 2021YFS0050, 2021YJ0434, 21YYJC2714, 21ZDYF3763, 2021YFH0180]
- West China Hospital, Sichuan University [ZYJC21047]
- Post-Doctor Research Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University [2018HXBH077]
- 1.3.5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence, West China Hospital, Sichuan University [ZYJC21047]
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering [sklpme2021-4-02]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Thousand Youth Talents Plan
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The development of advanced 2D nanomaterials, particularly 2D-ECs, has garnered significant attention due to their extraordinary physicochemical performances. This review provides a comprehensive understanding of the recent advances in nanostructure and catalytic center design of 2D-ECs, highlighting the strategies used for structural engineering and catalytic center design. The review also discusses the representative applications of 2D-ECs in electrocatalytic fields, and outlines the current breakthroughs and primary challenges in the field.
Currently, the development of advanced 2D nanomaterials has become an interdisciplinary subject with extensive studies due to their extraordinary physicochemical performances. Beyond graphene, the emerging 2D-material-derived electrocatalysts (2D-ECs) have aroused great attention as one of the best candidates for heterogeneous electrocatalysis. The tunable physicochemical compositions and characteristics of 2D-ECs enable rational structural engineering at the molecular/atomic levels to meet the requirements of different catalytic applications. Due to the lack of instructive and comprehensive reviews, here, the most recent advances in the nanostructure and catalytic center design and the corresponding structure-function relationships of emerging 2D-ECs are systematically summarized. First, the synthetic pathways and state-of-the-art strategies in the multifaceted structural engineering and catalytic center design of 2D-ECs to promote their electrocatalytic activities, such as size and thickness, phase and strain engineering, heterojunctions, heteroatom doping, and defect engineering, are emphasized. Then, the representative applications of 2D-ECs in electrocatalytic fields are depicted and summarized in detail. Finally, the current breakthroughs and primary challenges are highlighted and future directions to guide the perspectives for developing 2D-ECs as highly efficient electrocatalytic nanoplatforms are clarified. This review provides a comprehensive understanding to engineer 2D-ECs and may inspire many novel attempts and new catalytic applications across broad fields.
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