Confined synthesis of 2D nanostructured materials toward electrocatalysis
2D nanostructured materials have shown great application prospects in energy conversion, owing to their unique structural features and fascinating physicochemical properties. Developing efficient approaches for the synthesis of well‐defined 2D nanostructured materials with controllable composition a...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1441572020-10-19T02:23:04Z Confined synthesis of 2D nanostructured materials toward electrocatalysis Li, Zhenhua Zhang, Xiao Cheng, Hongfei Liu, Jiawei Shao, Mingfei Wei, Min Evans, David G. Zhang, Hua Duan, Xue School of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Programmable Materials Engineering::Materials 2D Nanomaterials Confined Synthesis 2D nanostructured materials have shown great application prospects in energy conversion, owing to their unique structural features and fascinating physicochemical properties. Developing efficient approaches for the synthesis of well‐defined 2D nanostructured materials with controllable composition and morphology is critical. The emerging concept, confined synthesis, has been regarded as a promising strategy to design and synthesize novel 2D nanostructured materials. This review mainly summarizes the recent advances in confined synthesis of 2D nanostructured materials by using layered materials as host matrices (also denoted as “nanoreactors”). By virtue of the space‐ and surface‐confinement effects of these layered hosts, various well‐organized 2D nanostructured materials, including 2D metals, 2D metal compounds, 2D carbon materials, 2D polymers, 2D metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent‐organic frameworks (COFs), as well as 2D carbon nitrides are successfully synthesized. The wide employment of these 2D materials in electrocatalytic applications (e.g., electrochemical oxygen/hydrogen evolution reactions, small molecule oxidation, and oxygen reduction reaction) is presented and discussed. In the final section, challenges and prospects in 2D confined synthesis from the viewpoint of designing new materials and exploring practical applications are commented, which would push this fast‐evolving field a step further toward greater success in both fundamental studies and ultimate industrialization. Ministry of Education (MOE) Nanyang Technological University This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21601011; 21871021; 21521005), the National Key Research and Development Programme (2017YFA0206804), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XK1802-6 and 12060093063) in china, and the MOE under AcRF Tier 2 (MOE2015-T2-2-057; MOE2016-T2-2-103; MOE2017-T2-1-162) and AcRF Tier 1 (2016-T1-002-051; 2017-T1-001-150; 2017-T1-002-119), and NTU under Start-Up Grant (M4081296.070.500000) in Singapore. The authors would like to acknowledge the Facility for Analysis, Characterization, Testing and Simulation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for use of their electron microscopy (and/or X-ray) facilities. H.Z. thanks the support from ITC via Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center, and the Start-Up Grant from City University of Hong Kong 2020-10-19T02:21:32Z 2020-10-19T02:21:32Z 2019 Journal Article Li, Z., Zhang, X., Cheng, H., Liu, J., Shao, M., Wei, M., . . . Duan, X. (2020). Confined synthesis of 2D nanostructured materials toward electrocatalysis. Advanced Energy Materials, 10(11), 1900486-. doi:10.1002/aenm.201900486 1614-6832 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144157 10.1002/aenm.201900486 11 10 en MOE2015-T2-2-057 MOE2016-T2-2-103 MOE2017-T2-1-162 2016-T1-002-051 2017-T1-001-150 2017-T1-002-119 M4081296.070.500000 Advanced Energy Materials © 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. All rights reserved. |
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2D nanostructured materials have shown great application prospects in energy conversion, owing to their unique structural features and fascinating physicochemical properties. Developing efficient approaches for the synthesis of well‐defined 2D nanostructured materials with controllable composition and morphology is critical. The emerging concept, confined synthesis, has been regarded as a promising strategy to design and synthesize novel 2D nanostructured materials. This review mainly summarizes the recent advances in confined synthesis of 2D nanostructured materials by using layered materials as host matrices (also denoted as “nanoreactors”). By virtue of the space‐ and surface‐confinement effects of these layered hosts, various well‐organized 2D nanostructured materials, including 2D metals, 2D metal compounds, 2D carbon materials, 2D polymers, 2D metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent‐organic frameworks (COFs), as well as 2D carbon nitrides are successfully synthesized. The wide employment of these 2D materials in electrocatalytic applications (e.g., electrochemical oxygen/hydrogen evolution reactions, small molecule oxidation, and oxygen reduction reaction) is presented and discussed. In the final section, challenges and prospects in 2D confined synthesis from the viewpoint of designing new materials and exploring practical applications are commented, which would push this fast‐evolving field a step further toward greater success in both fundamental studies and ultimate industrialization. |
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