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Yushan Wu, Di Xu, Yanfei Xu, Xin Tian, Mingyue Ding
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Yilan Jiang, Peifang Wang, Tingyue Chen, Keyi Gao, Yiran Xiong, Yin Lu, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Dawei Wang
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Shuai Hao, He Zhang, Xiaoxuan Sun, Jinxing Chen, Junfeng Zhai, Shaojun Dong
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Laiyu Luo, Siyu Wang, Liping Zhang, Xudong Xiao, Baogang Wu, Mietek Jaroniec, Baojiang Jiang
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Guodong Zhang, Xiaosheng Huang, Weiliang Han, Zhicheng Tang
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Feng He, Qianxiang Xiao, Yin Chen, Hongqing Wang, Xiangke Wang
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Yongwang Li, Qi Shen, Yao Nian, Fumin Wang, Xubin Zhang, Zhengliang Zhang, Changhao Bing, Xiaolu Fan, Rosine Ahishakiye
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Tiantian Wang, Dan Zhang, Jiawei Fei, Wenhao Yu, Jiawei Zhu, Yanyun Zhang, Yue Shi, Minge Tian, Jianping Lai, Lei Wang
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Jiacheng Li, Hong Shi, Zenan Li, Jiaxuan Wang, Honglin Si, Fan Liao, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, Zhenhui Kang
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Yifan Ding, Tianran Yan, Jianghua Wu, Meng Tian, Miaoyu Lu, Conglei Xu, Jiaxi Gu, Haorui Zhao, Yifei Wang, Xiaoqing Pan, Shi Xue Dou, Liang Zhang, Jingyu Sun
Summary: Electrocatalysis plays a crucial role in lithium-sulfur chemistry for high-performance batteries. This study successfully fabricates dispersed FeCo geminal-atom moieties on N-doped carbon support, which enhances the conversion kinetics of polysulfides. The rational design of the electrocatalytic mediator leads to excellent capacity retention and cycling stability for Li-S batteries.
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Mingmei Li, Kaida Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Zhiruo Zhou, Fei Li, Sihui Zhan, Yi Li
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Zhengkai Cao, Sijia Ding, Rong Guo, Zhentao Chen, Jiahuan Yu, Ziming Wu, Daowei Gao, Aijun Duan, Hanbang Liu, Xia Zhang
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Liyuan Yuan, Ming Zhang, Guoli Fan, Feng Li
Summary: Upgrading biomass-derived ethanol to higher alcohols is a promising process. The use of supported copper catalysts decorated with surface trace-level nitrogen-doped carbon has shown unprecedentedly high conversion rates and selectivity towards higher alcohols. The cooperative catalysis of multiple surface-interface active sites plays a crucial role in enhancing the catalytic efficiency.
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Hang Xiao, Mengyang Xia, Ben Chong, He Li, Bo Lin, Guidong Yang
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Aohui Chen, Chang Zhu, Jianing Mao, Shoujie Li, Gangfeng Wu, Yiheng Wei, Xiaohu Liu, Xiao Dong, Yanfang Song, Guihua Li, Yuhan Sun, Wei Wei, Wei Chen
Summary: The electroreduction of CO2 to valuable chemicals using renewable energy is a promising strategy for achieving carbon neutrality, but it remains challenging under high industry current densities. In this work, a lattice-dislocated hollow-fiber Bi electrode was developed to address this issue. The electrode showed a nearly perfect formate Faradaic efficiency at a current density of 1 A cm(-2), effectively suppressing CO and hydrogen generation. The results suggest that the lattice-dislocated Bi hollow electrode, which induces penetration and strain effects, plays a crucial role in promoting CO2 conversion.
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Chang Wang, Shihao Zhou, Qingqiang Cui, Mengya Zhang, Linqi Zheng, Shuang Li, Xiangdong Liu, Ming Chen
Summary: This study develops a high-temperature-resistant and efficient photo-thermal catalyst for the degradation of organic dyes. The catalyst exhibits excellent degradation rate under solar-activated heating conditions, and it also demonstrates remarkable thermal recyclability. By immobilizing the nano-catalyst in specific materials, it can be conveniently applied for practical wastewater purification.
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Yan Sun, Lei Zhang
Summary: A Janus photocathode with asymmetric wettability was successfully fabricated, which showed higher H2O2 production and stable photoelectrochemical performance compared to hydrophilic and hydrophobic electrodes.
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