Recent Advances in Environment and Energy Catalysis

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis for Sustainable Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1383

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Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: CH4 oxidation; zeolite; DFT simulation; multifunction nanomaterial design

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Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: CO2 hydrogenation; C3H8 dehydrogenation; C1 catalysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Rapid human development has been accompanied by serious challenges in environmental protectionn. This has brought a sustainable new energy revolution to address the increasingly serious global climate change. The catalytic technique constitutes one of the key routes to solving such issues as those faced in the environment protection and energy revolution fields. The present Issue aims to majorly focus on the recent developments in advanced catalytic materials designs. Environmental protection includes, but is not limited to the following areas:

(1) CO2 neutralization (CO2 hydrogenation, drying reforming);

(2) gas and diesel hydrodesulfurization (HDS);

(3) NOx selective catalytic reduction (NH3-SCR, et al.);

(4) VOCs combustion, adsorption, and resource reusing;

(5) water electrolysis (hydrogen evolution reaction, HER; oxygen evolution reaction OER) & fuel cells.

If you would like to submit papers to this Special Issue or have any questions, please contact the editor, Mr. Ives Liu (ives.liu@mdpi.com).

Dr. Ning Liu
Prof. Dr. Ning Wang
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Keywords

  • CO2 reduction
  • NH3-SCR
  • VOCs combustion
  • HER
  • HDS
  • OER
  • fuel cells

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Recent Modification Strategies of MoS2 towards Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
by Lei Liu, Ning Liu, Biaohua Chen, Chengna Dai and Ning Wang
Catalysts 2024, 14(2), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal14020126 - 05 Feb 2024
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Hydrogen production by the electrolysis of water is a green and efficient method, which is of great significance for achieving sustainable development. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a promising electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to its high electrochemical activity, low [...] Read more.
Hydrogen production by the electrolysis of water is a green and efficient method, which is of great significance for achieving sustainable development. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a promising electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to its high electrochemical activity, low cost, and abundant reserves. In comparison to the noble metal Pt, MoS2 has poorer hydrogen evolution performance in water electrolysis. Therefore, further modifications of MoS2 need to be developed aiming at improving its catalytic performance. The present work summarizes the modification strategies that have been developed in the past three years on hydrogen evolution from water electrolysis by utilizing MoS2 as the electrocatalyst and following the two aspects of internal and external modifications. The former includes the strategies of interlayer spacing, sulfur vacancy, phase transition, and element doping, while the latter includes the heterostructure and conductive substrate. If the current gap in this paper’s focus on modification strategies for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution in water electrolysis is addressed, MoS2 will perform best in acidic or alkaline media. In addition to that, the present work also discusses the challenges and future development directions of MoS2 catalysts. Full article
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