Engineering organic polymers as emerging sustainable materials for powerful electrocatalysts

Abstract

A comprehensive overview on organic polymers as electrocatalysts is summarized. By presenting the engineering strategies, insightful understandings, challenges, and perspectives, we hope this review can provide valuable references for the readers.

Covalent porous catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2

“…It is proposed that metal sites within CPCs are responsible for eCO 2 RR activity, and through the tuning of organic building blocks, metal species and microstructures, their eCO 2 RR activity could be efficiently regulated. 79,85–87 In this section, we will first give a brief introduction on eCO 2 RR, including the general mechanism, characteristic tools and fundamental parameters. Then we will classify the design principles into two categories, the metal catalytic sites and organic backbones, revealing the underlying factors that govern eCO 2 RR performance in CPCs.…”

An enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction by the photothermal effect and its induced micro-electric field

“…10–12 To achieve an efficient OER, many materials are being utilized as electrocatalysts, such as noble metal-based OER electrocatalysts 13,14 ( e.g. , RuO 2 and IrO 2 ) and transition metal-based OER electrocatalysts 15–20 ( e.g. , oxides, hydroxide, carbides, phosphides, sulfides, nitrides and polymers).…”

Modulating the localized electronic distribution of Cu species during reconstruction for enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2+ products

“…1–10 The conversion of CO 2 into valuable chemical fuels through electrochemistry can benefit from being powered by green electricity and is easy to modularize and scale up, and is regarded as one of the most promising technologies for carbon neutrality. 11–14 Catalysts as the core of the CO 2 RR have been extensively studied, and multiple catalysts have been designed to achieve different products, such as CO, 15 formate, 16 ethanol, 17 and ethylene. 18 Among them, C 1 products such as CO and formate have commonly achieved a high selectivity of over 90%.…”