Designing earth-abundant electrocatalysts toward highly efficient CO 2 reduction has significant importance to decrease the global emission of greenhouse gas. Herein, we propose an efficient strategy to anchor non-noble metal single atoms on Zr 6 -cluster-porphyrin framework hollow nanocapsules with well-defined and abundant metal-N 4 porphyrin sites for efficient electrochemical CO 2 reduction. Among different transition metal single atoms (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu), Co single-atom anchored Zr 6 -cluster-porphyrin framework hollow nanocapsules demonstrated the highest activity and selectivity for CO production. The rich Co−N 4 active centers and hierarchical porous structure contribute to enhanced CO 2 adsorption capability and moderate binding strength of reaction intermediates, thus facilitating *CO desorption and CO 2 -to-CO conversion. The Co-anchored nanocapsules maintain high efficiency and well-preserved stability during long-term electrocatalysis tests. Moreover, the Co-anchored nanocapsules exhibit a remarkable solar-to-CO energy conversion efficiency of 12.5% in an integrated solar-driven CO 2 reduction/O 2 evolution electrolysis system when powered by a custom large-area [Cs 0.05 (FA 0.85 MA 0.15 ) 0.95 ]Pb 0.9 (I 0.85 Br 0.15 ) 3 -based perovskite solar cell.
As emerging 2D materials, arsenene and arsenic materials have attracted rising interest in the past few years. The diverse crystalline phases, exotic electrical characteristics, and widespread applications of 2D arsenene and arsenic bring them great research value and utilization potential. Herein, the recent progress of 2D arsenene and arsenic is reviewed in terms of fundamental properties, preparation, and applications. The fundamental properties of 2D arsenene and arsenic, including the crystal phases, environmental stability, and electrical structure, from theoretical to experimental reports are first summarized. Then, the experimental processes for preparing 2D arsenene and arsenic, along with their respective advantages and disadvantages, are introduced including epitaxial growth, mechanical exfoliation, and liquid‐phase exfoliation. Moreover, applications of 2D arsenene and arsenic are discussed, suggesting a wide range of applications of 2D arsenene and arsenic in field‐effect transistors, sensors, catalysts, biological applications, and so on. Finally, some perspectives about the challenges and opportunities of promising 2D arsenene and arsenic are provided. This review provides a helpful guidance and stimulates more focus on future explorations and developments of 2D arsenene and arsenic.
Summary The emergence of all-inorganic halide perovskites has shown great potential in photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. However, the photo-induced phase segregation in lead mixed-halide perovskites has severely limited their application. Herein, by real-time monitoring the photoluminescence (PL) spectra of metal mixed-halide perovskites under light irradiation, we found that the photo-induced phase transition can be significantly inhibited by B-site doping. For pristine mixed-halide perovskites, an intermediate phase of CsPbBr x I 3-x can only be stabilized under low excitation power. After introducing Sn 2+ ions, such intermediate phase can be stabilized in nitrogen atmosphere under high excitation power and phase segregation can be started after the exposure in oxygen due to oxidization of Sn 2+ . Replacing Sn 2+ by Mn 2+ can further improve the intermediate phase's tolerance to oxygen proving that B-site doping in perovskites structure by Sn 2+ or Mn 2+ could effectively minimize the light-induced phase segregation and promote them to serve as promising candidates in photovoltaic and light-emitting devices.
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