Abstract The sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) severely limits the efficiency electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen. Therefore, an effective strategy is proposed replace OER with selective methanol oxidation (MOR). A nickel sulfide nanosheet catalyst supported on Ni foam (NiS/NF) was prepared by a facile hydrothermal method following sulfurization treatment. as...

amount of peroxychromate added was calculated to yield about twice as much singlet oxygen as substrate. Clearly the oxidation process is highly efficient. In a second series of experiments we examined the oxidation of aqueous dispersions of soya-bean phosphatidylcholine. The substrate was dried from chloroform/methanol (2: 1, v/v) under N, and dispersed in water (5mg/ml) by ultrasonication. Por...

The supported K2O–V2O5/Al2O3 catalytic system was designed to create surfaces that were 100% acidic, 100% basic, 100% redox, mixed redox-acidic and mixed redox-basic. The resulting nature of the surface sites was controlled by the impregnation of the specific additives (K-basic or V-redox/acidic), their order of impregnation and their surface coverage. The exact locations of the surface methoxy...