Molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) production by electrochemical evolution reaction (HER) is being actively explored for non-precious-metal based electrocatalysts that are earth-abundant and low cost like MoS . Although it acid-stable,...

Abstract Direct ethanol fuel cell (DEFC) has the advantages of low pollution emissions, easy to carry, and high energy density. However, development cells is limited due catalytic activity poor stability electrode catalyst materials. Precious metal aerogels not only have three-dimensional self-supporting network structures but also excellent properties precious metals, which very good efficienc...

In gas adsorption and metal recovery, inexpensive covalently bonded porous polymers offer industrial feasibility, despite the challenge of having reactive functionalities while maintaining porosity. Herein, three highly covalent organic (COPs), COP-210, COP-211, COP-212, with porphyrin that are readily synthesized by a Friedel–Crafts reaction using chlorinated solvents as linkers reported. The ...

The ability to form multiple carbon-carbon bonds in a controlled sequence and thus rapidly build molecular complexity in an iterative fashion is an important goal in modern chemical synthesis. In recent times, transition-metal-catalysed coupling reactions have dominated in the development of C-C bond forming processes. A desire to reduce the reliance on precious metals and a need to obtain prod...

Globally scalable sunlight-driven devices that convert solar energy into storable fuels will require efficient light absorbers that are made of non-precious elements. Suitable photoanode materials are yet to be discovered. Here we utilised the timesaving nature of pulsed-laser-in-liquids synthesis and prepared a series of neat and mixed-metal tungsten oxide photoanode materials to investigate t...