Amorphous molybdenum sulfide (MoSx) is covalently anchored to reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) via a simple one-pot reaction, thereby inducing the reduction of GO and simultaneous doping of heteroatoms on the GO. The oxygen atoms form a bridged between MoSx and GO and play a crucial role in the fine dispersion of the MoSx particles, control of planar MoSx growth, and increase of exposed active sul...

The oxidation of ammonia to nitrogen by selective catalytic oxidation (NH3-SCO) over a bimetallic CuO/CeO2 nanoparticle catalyst at temperatures between 423 and 673K. A bimetallic CuO/CeO2 nanoparticle catalyst was prepared by co-precipitation method at molar ratio of 6:4. This study also considers how the concentration of influent NH3 (C0 = 800 ppm), the space velocity (GHSV = 92000/hr), the r...

In the present paper the role of the electrode material in oxygen reduction in DMSO based electrolytes is elucidated using DEMS. We have found, employing platinum, gold, ruthenium rhodium, selenium decorated rhodium and boron doped diamond (BDD) as electrode materials, that the actual mechanism of oxygen reduction largely depends on the electrode material. At platinum, rhodium and selenium deco...

Taking cognizance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 “affordable and clean energy”, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) derived materials have spurred research interest in electrocatalysis. New findings made headway water splitting (oxygen evolution reaction hydrogen reaction) other electrocatalysis, including oxygen reduction electrochemical CO2 reduction. Thanks to their structu...

The state of the electrocatalyst surface-including the oxidation state of the catalyst and the presence of spectator species-is investigated on Cu surfaces with density functional theory in order to understand predicted ramifications on the selectivity and efficiency of CO2 reduction. We examined the presence of oxygen-based species, including the fully oxidized Cu2O surface, the partially oxid...

Replacement of noble metals in catalysts for cathodic oxygen reduction reaction with transition metals mostly create active sites based on a composite of nitrogen-coordinated transition metal in close concert with non-nitrogen-coordinated carbon-embedded metal atom clusters. Here we report a non-platinum group metal electrocatalyst with an active site devoid of any direct nitrogen coordination ...

The deployment of hydrogen as an energy carrier is found to be a vital alternative fuel for the future. It expected that water electrolysis, powered by renewable sources, able scale‐up production. However, reaction kinetic oxygen evolution (OER) sluggish process, which predominantly limits efficiency electrolysis. This review recapitulates recent progress and efforts made in design development ...

A low cost and non-precious metal composite material g-C3N4-LaNiO3 (CNL) was synthesized as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the air electrode of lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries. The composition strategy changed the electron structure of LaNiO3 and g-C3N4, ensures high Ni(3+)/Ni(2+) ratio and more absorbed hydroxyl on the surface of CNL that can promote the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) an...