Recent Progress of Magnetic Field Effect on Catalysts

Dear Colleagues,

Developing new strategies to advance the performance of catalysts is crucial to mitigating multiple contemporary technological challenges. In recent years, research on the intersection of magnetic fields and catalysis has attracted increasing attention, and magnetic field-enhanced catalysis has been employed as a frontier and novel strategy to further improve conventional catalysts' activity, selectivity, and overall efficiency. The unique magnetic field effects in the catalytic process, including the magnetothermal effect, magnetohydrodynamic effect, Lorentz forces, Kelvin forces, Maxwell tension, and spin polarization, can accelerate the reaction rate, relieve the adhesion of bubbles on the electrode, promote the mass transfer, and change the reaction pathway. This results in significantly increased catalytic activities in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the CO₂ reduction reaction, etc. On the other hand, when a magnetic field is employed in a catalyst synthesis system, the specific structures, such as the morphology, exposed crystal plane, surface electronic structure modulation, and electron spin state, will be adjusted, which can also promote the improvement of catalytic performance. Although considerable progress has been achieved in magnetic field-mediated strategy, there is still much space for future combinations of catalysts with magnetic fields.

This Special Issue of Magnetochemistry aims to publish a collection of research contributions illustrating the recent progress in all aspects of the magnetic field-mediated strategy on catalysts' performance in the topics listed below.

Prof. Dr. Qianwang Chen
Dr. Lin Hu
Guest Editors

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• magnetic field-induced catalyst synthesis

• magnetic field-enhanced electrocatalytic performance
• magnetic field-enhanced photocatalytic performance
• the mechanism of the magnetic field effect
• in situ characterization under magnetic field
• catalytic device under magnetic field
• magnetic catalyst
• magnetothermal effect
• magnetohydrodynamic effect