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Single Atom Catalysts for Fuel Cells and Rechargeable Batteries: Principles, Advances, and Opportunities
Abstract
Owing to the energy crisis and environmental pollution, developing efficient and robust electrochemical energy storage (or conversion) systems is urgently needed but still very challenging. Next-generation electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices, mainly including fuel cells, metal-air batteries, metal-sulfur batteries, and metal-ion batteries, have been viewed as promising candidates for future large-scale energy applications. All these systems are operated through one type of chemical conversion mechanism, which is currently limited by poor reaction kinetics. Single atom catalysts (SACs) perform maximum atom efficiency and well-defined active sites. They have been employed as electrode components to enhance the redox kinetics and adjust the interactions at the reaction interface, boosting device performance. In this Review, we briefly summarize the related background knowledge, motivation and working principle toward next-generation electrochemical energy storage (or conversion) devices, including fuel cells, Zn-air batteries, Al-air batteries, Li-air batteries, Li-CO 2 batteries, Li-S batteries, and Na-S batteries. While pointing out the remaining challenges in each system, we clarify the importance of SACs to solve these development bottlenecks. Then, we further explore the working principle and current progress of SACs in various device systems. Finally, future opportunities and perspectives of SACs in next-generation electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices are discussed.
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- Wang, Y., Chu, F., Zeng, J., Wang, Q., Naren, T., Li, Y., Cheng, Y., Lei, Y., & Wu, F.
- Venue
- ACS Nano
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2021-01-06
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 210-239
- ISSN
- 1936-0851 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-086X
- OpenAlex
- W3118346961
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- 306
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 10.27
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- Language
- en
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