The role of strain in oxygen evolution reaction

The oxygen evolution reaction(OER)is a crucial step in metal-air batteries and water splitting technologies,playing a significant role in the efficiency and achievable heights of these two technologies.However,the OER is a four-step,four-electron reaction,and its slow kinetics result in high overpotentials,posing a challenge.To address this issue,numerous strategies involving modified catalysts have been proposed and proven to be highly efficient.In these strategies,the introduction of strain has been widely reported because it is generally believed to effectively regulate the electronic structure of metal sites and alter the adsorption energy of catalyst surfaces with reaction intermediates.However,strain has many other effects that are not well known,making it an important yet unexplored area.Based on this,this review provides a detailed introduction to the various roles of strain in OER.To better explain these roles,the review also presents the definition of strain and elucidates the potential mechanisms of strain in OER based on the d-band center theory and adsorption volcano plot.Additionally,the review showcases various ways of introducing strain in OER through examples reported in the latest literature,aiming to provide a comprehensive perspective for the development of strain engineering.Finally,the review analyzes the appropriate proportion of strain introduction,compares compressive and tensile strain,and examines the impact of strain on stability.And the review offers prospects for future research directions in this emerging field.

Design strategy for low-temperature sulfur etching to achieve high-performance hollow multifunctional electrode material

Zeolite Imidazole Framework(ZIF)has the advantages of large specific surface area,high porosity,and easy functionalization,so it looked like one of the most promising energy storage and conversion materials.In the meantime,transition metal oxides and sulfides have been widely used in environmental and energy conversion applications.Hence,a NaOH-assisted thioacetamide etching strategy is,therefore,designed with the metal-organic framework as precursor to realize the hollow nanostructure of ZIF bimetallic sulfide(Sx-CoCd-350)with abundant sulfur vacancies for enhanced catalysts oxygen evolution reaction(OER)/hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)performance and capacitance performance of capacitor.The overpotential of S_(2)-CoCd-350 in the OER process is 355 m V at 50 m A cm^(-2),which is substantially lower than other reported ZIF-based catalysts.S_(2)-CoCd-350 has an overpotential of 84 m V at 10 m A cm^(-2)when employed as HER catalyst.Furthermore,the S_(2)-CoCd-350 electrode did not alter appreciably during a long-term durability test of more than 10 h.More impressively,S_(2)-Co Cd-350 matches the activated carbon(AC)electrode with excellent capacitance performance 1220μWh cm^(-2)energy density(at 3370μW cm^(-2))and 25,000μW cm^(-2)(at 700μWh cm^(-2))maximum power density.In addition,the assembled supercapacitor has excellent cycling stability.

Facile synthesis and highly efficient selective adsorption properties of Y2Mo4O15 for methylene blue：Kinetics,thermodynamics and mechanical analyses

Y2 Mo4 O15 particles were prepared using a simple solution method（SSM） and used as a highly efficient selective adsorbent for methylene blue（MB） in aqueous solutions. The maximum adsorption capacity of the samples was determined based on the adsorption isotherms with different adsorbent doses at 298,318 and 338 K. The fittings of the temperature-dependent isotherms yield ΔrGm^θ=-34.1 kJ/mol,ΔrHm^θ-36.9 kJ/mol and ΔrSm^θ=-9.67 J/mol·K. The as-prepared Y2 Mo4 O15 has a very large maximum adsorption capacity（i.e., 198 mg/g） for MB at room temperature, and this value is only less than that of amorphous hardwood powder. Notably, 80 mg of adsorbent is able to completely decolorize 250 mL of 30 mg/L MB aqueous solution. The kinetic parameters of the adsorption process were obtained from the temperature-dependent adsorption isotherm（i.e., E1=26.9 kJ/mol and E1 = 63.8 kJ/mol）. The results of adsorption kinetics show that it is a pseudo-second-order reaction. The mechanism of the high selectivity and the large adsorption capacity is discussed based on competitive ion（CI） experiments and coordination theory.