Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering

Structure and surface modification of electrocatalysts demonstrates a promising lead for achieving excellent electrocatalytic activity and efficiency. Among various surface modification strategies, nonthermal plasma technique possesses an irreplaceable role due to the merits of simple but controllab...

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Main Authors: Tang, Jiayi, Su, C., Shao, Zongping
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH 2022
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100773
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90767
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Su, C.
Shao, Zongping
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Su, C.
Shao, Zongping
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description Structure and surface modification of electrocatalysts demonstrates a promising lead for achieving excellent electrocatalytic activity and efficiency. Among various surface modification strategies, nonthermal plasma technique possesses an irreplaceable role due to the merits of simple but controllable operation procedure, low pollution, low cost, and easy scale-up for practical applications. Nonthermal plasma treatment, as a powerful tool for material surface and structural engineering, can mainly benefit the electrocatalytic reactions in the following aspects: surface atom doping or reconstructing, introducing vacancies or defects, surface partially reducing or oxidizing, and increasing the porosity or roughness. Given to its flexibility, plasma modification is gaining a noticeable popularity, and great progress has been made in applying plasma for optimizing surface properties of the mainstream electrocatalysts, including metal-free carbon materials, metal oxides, and other compounds, as well as organometallic electrocatalysts, etc. This review first summarizes the recent advances in nonthermal plasma modification for achieving desirable electrocatalytic behaviors, aiming to highlight the cutting-edge function designs of electrocatalysts with plasma technology. It is hoped that this work can give some inspiration for the development of highly efficient electrocatalysts.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-907672023-04-19T06:10:39Z Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering Tang, Jiayi Su, C. Shao, Zongping Science & Technology Technology Energy & Fuels defect-rich surface electrocatalyst surface modification heteroatom doping metallic electrocatalysts nonthermal plasma structural engineering OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES HYDROGEN EVOLUTION CATALYST PREPARATION ASSISTED SYNTHESIS FUNCTIONAL-GROUPS OZONE OXIDATION ACTIVE-SITES EFFICIENT Structure and surface modification of electrocatalysts demonstrates a promising lead for achieving excellent electrocatalytic activity and efficiency. Among various surface modification strategies, nonthermal plasma technique possesses an irreplaceable role due to the merits of simple but controllable operation procedure, low pollution, low cost, and easy scale-up for practical applications. Nonthermal plasma treatment, as a powerful tool for material surface and structural engineering, can mainly benefit the electrocatalytic reactions in the following aspects: surface atom doping or reconstructing, introducing vacancies or defects, surface partially reducing or oxidizing, and increasing the porosity or roughness. Given to its flexibility, plasma modification is gaining a noticeable popularity, and great progress has been made in applying plasma for optimizing surface properties of the mainstream electrocatalysts, including metal-free carbon materials, metal oxides, and other compounds, as well as organometallic electrocatalysts, etc. This review first summarizes the recent advances in nonthermal plasma modification for achieving desirable electrocatalytic behaviors, aiming to highlight the cutting-edge function designs of electrocatalysts with plasma technology. It is hoped that this work can give some inspiration for the development of highly efficient electrocatalysts. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90767 10.1002/ente.202200235 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100773 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200103315 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200103332 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Technology
Energy & Fuels
defect-rich surface
electrocatalyst surface modification
heteroatom doping
metallic electrocatalysts
nonthermal plasma
structural engineering
OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION
METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS
MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
HYDROGEN EVOLUTION
CATALYST PREPARATION
ASSISTED SYNTHESIS
FUNCTIONAL-GROUPS
OZONE OXIDATION
ACTIVE-SITES
EFFICIENT
Tang, Jiayi
Su, C.
Shao, Zongping
Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title_full Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title_fullStr Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title_full_unstemmed Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title_short Nonthermal Plasma Treatment for Electrocatalysts Structural and Surface Engineering
title_sort nonthermal plasma treatment for electrocatalysts structural and surface engineering
topic Science & Technology
Technology
Energy & Fuels
defect-rich surface
electrocatalyst surface modification
heteroatom doping
metallic electrocatalysts
nonthermal plasma
structural engineering
OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION
METAL-FREE ELECTROCATALYSTS
MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
HYDROGEN EVOLUTION
CATALYST PREPARATION
ASSISTED SYNTHESIS
FUNCTIONAL-GROUPS
OZONE OXIDATION
ACTIVE-SITES
EFFICIENT
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100773
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100773
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100773
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90767