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Ampere-level co-electrosynthesis of formate from CO₂ reduction paired with formaldehyde dehydrogenation reactions

Developing high-productive and energy-saving systems in formate electrosynthesis is attractive but challenging. Here, the authors report an efficient Rh-dispersed In₂O₃ catalyst for CO₂ reduction, benefiting the ampere-level formate coproduction when pairing with anodic aldehyde oxidative dehydrogenation.

Zhengyuan Li
Peng Wang
Jingjie Wu
ResearchOpen Access25 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-9
Molecular-scale CO spillover on a dual-site electrocatalyst enhances methanol production from CO₂ reduction

A dual-site electrocatalyst is developed to greatly enhance methanol production from CO₂ reduction via a cascade process, taking advantage of molecular-scale CO spillover.

Jing Li
Quansong Zhu
Hailiang Wang
Research18 Feb 2025
Nature Nanotechnology

Volume: 20, P: 515-522
Directing CO₂ electroreduction pathways for selective C₂ product formation using single-site doped copper catalysts

Steering the selectivity-determining steps is as important as the C–C coupling steps in CO₂ electroreduction. Here the authors highlight that single-site noble metal dopants on the Cu surface can influence C–O bond dissociation and direct the post-C–C coupling pathways to ethylene versus ethanol.

Zhengyuan Li
Peng Wang
Jingjie Wu
Research08 Feb 2024
Nature Chemical Engineering

Volume: 1, P: 159-169
Correlating the three-dimensional atomic defects and electronic properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Scanning atomic electron tomography is demonstrated to determine the 3D atomic positions and defects of Re-doped MoS₂ monolayers and other 2D materials, providing picometre precision atomic coordinates that can be used as direct input to DFT to reveal more accurate electronic band structures of these systems.

Xuezeng Tian
Dennis S. Kim
Jianwei Miao
Research09 Mar 2020
Nature Materials

Volume: 19, P: 867-873
Iridium metallene oxide for acidic oxygen evolution catalysis

Identifying new, active material phases provides a promising avenue in the development of efficient catalysts. Here, authors demonstrate a metastable 1T-phase IrO₂ metallene oxide as an oxygen evolution electrocatalyst in acidic electrolytes.

Qian Dang
Haiping Lin
Mingwang Shao
ResearchOpen Access14 Oct 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-10
Coordination tailoring of Cu single sites on C₃N₄ realizes selective CO₂ hydrogenation at low temperature

CO₂ hydrogenation has attracted intense scientific attention yet suffers from the disadvantage of poor activity and low selectivity. Here, the authors report that Cu single atom catalysts with tailored coordination environments on C₃N₄ serve as highly selective catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation.

Tang Yang
Xinnan Mao
Xiaoqing Huang
ResearchOpen Access15 Oct 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
Mesoporous MnCeO_x solid solutions for low temperature and selective oxidation of hydrocarbons

Precious metal free catalysts for aerobic oxidation of hydrocarbons are industrially useful materials. Here, the authors report a mesoporous maganese-cerium oxide solid solution that is highly active for the selective oxidation of C-H bonds in hydrocarbons under mild conditions.

Pengfei Zhang
Hanfeng Lu
Sheng Dai
ResearchOpen Access15 Oct 2015
Nature Communications

Volume: 6, P: 1-10
Stabilizing lattice oxygen redox in layered sodium transition metal oxide through spin singlet state

Oxygen redox in transition metal oxides enhances the energy content of Na-ion batteries but is typically plagued by poor reversibility. Here, the authors achieve non-hysteresis through the formation of a spin singlet state to stabilize the active oxygen redox reaction in P3-type Na_2/3Cu_1/3Mn_2/3O₂.

Xuelong Wang
Liang Yin
Jue Liu
ResearchOpen Access23 Nov 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-13
Ambipolar ferromagnetism by electrostatic doping of a manganite

An ambipolar ferromagnet with both electron- and hole-doped ferromagnetism in a single material would facilitate understanding of ferromagnetic semiconductors for spintronic applications. Here the authors demonstrate ambipolar ferromagnetism in LaMnO₃, using ionic liquid gating enabled electrostatic doping to produce electron–hole asymmetry.

L. M. Zheng
X. Renshaw Wang
W. W. Cao
ResearchOpen Access15 May 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-7
Memory-dictated dynamics of single-atom Pt on CeO₂ for CO oxidation

The use of single atoms of platinum group metals on CeO₂ is a promising approach to reduce precious metal requirements for automobile exhaust treatment catalysts. Here, the authors discovered that by manipulating the calcination temperatures, they could control the configuration of Pt1 on the CeO₂ surface, leading to differences in CO oxidation activity.

Zihao Zhang
Jinshu Tian
Yong Wang
ResearchOpen Access09 May 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Solid-state synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbon catalysts via a mechanochemical assembly through coordination cross-linking

Ordered mesoporous carbons have shown promise in a range of applications, but sustainable methods to achieve their large scale production are lacking. Here, Dai and coworkers produce OMCs via the mechanochemical assembly of non-toxic polyphenol-metal complexes and triblock copolymers, followed by pyrolysis.

Pengfei Zhang
Li Wang
Sheng Dai
ResearchOpen Access28 Apr 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Valence-programmable nanoparticle architectures

Assembling nanoparticles into precise architectures by controlling their positions in three-dimensional space is a major challenge in nanoscience. Here, the authors construct complex, preprogrammed clusters of DNA-encoded nanoparticles by coordinating them onto a DNA mesh wireframe.

Sha Sun
Shize Yang
Oleg Gang
ResearchOpen Access08 May 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
A top-down strategy for amorphization of hydroxyl compounds for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

A versatile top-down strategy has been shown to produce amorphous oxides through amorphization of corresponding hydroxides. This approach was used to generate various unitary, binary and ternary amorphous oxides for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution.

Shangheng Liu
Shize Geng
Xiaoqing Huang
ResearchOpen Access04 Mar 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-10
Impact of drainage on peatland soil environments and greenhouse gas emissions in Northeast China

Tao Yang
Jing Jiang
Chunguang He
ResearchOpen Access10 Mar 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-20
Thermodynamics of order and randomness in dopant distributions inferred from atomically resolved imaging

Lukas Vlcek
Shize Yang
Sergei V. Kalinin
ResearchOpen Access25 Mar 2021
npj Computational Materials

Volume: 7, P: 1-9
Identification, functional prediction, and key lncRNA verification of cold stress-related lncRNAs in rats liver

Hong Ji
Chunyang Niu
Li Ma
ResearchOpen Access16 Jan 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-14

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