A Review of In-Situ Techniques for Probing Active Sites and Mechanisms of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reactions

Emerging Electrochemical Techniques for Probing Site Behavior in Single-Atom Electrocatalysts

(2022) Zhaoyu Jin et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Unmasking the Critical Role of the Ordering Degree of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts on Oxygen Reduction Reaction by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy

(2022) Heng‐Quan Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

In situ Raman, FTIR, and XRD spectroscopic studies in fuel cells and rechargeable batteries

(2022) Fan Gao et al.   Nano Research

Understanding Synthesis and Structural Variation of Nanomaterials Through In Situ/Operando XAS and SAXS

(2022) Lingzhe Fang et al.   Small

Effect of Support on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Supported Iron Porphyrins

(2022) Qi Hua et al.   ACS Catalysis

Time‐Resolved Potential‐Induced Changes in Fe/N/C‐Catalysts Studied by In Situ Modulation Excitation X‐Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2022) Kathrin Ebner et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Recent Progress on Asymmetric Carbon- and Silica-Based Nanomaterials: From Synthetic Strategies to Their Applications

(2022) Haitao Li et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Monolayer Graphitic Carbon Nitride as Metal-Free Catalyst with Enhanced Performance in Photo- and Electro-Catalysis

(2022) Huiyan Piao et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

In situ Raman spectroscopy studies for electrochemical CO2 reduction over Cu catalysts

(2022) Hefei Li et al.   Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

Investigation on the demetallation of Fe-N-C for oxygen reduction reaction: The influence of structure and structural evolution of active site

(2022) Xinlong Xu et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

Cooperatively interface role of surface atoms and aqueous media on single atom catalytic property for H2O2 synthesis

(2022) Qiao-Jun Fang et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Probing the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Intermediates and Dynamic Active Site Structures of Molecular and Pyrolyzed Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy

(2022) Jie Wei et al.   ACS Catalysis

MOF-Derived Co and Fe Species Loaded on N-Doped Carbon Networks as Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Zn-Air Batteries

(2022) Yuanyuan Xue et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Advanced Platinum-Based Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells

(2021) Lei Huang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enzyme‐Inspired Iron Porphyrins for Improved Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions

(2021) Lisi Xie et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Molecular Insight of the Critical Role of Ni in Pt-Based Nanocatalysts for Improving the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Probed Using an In Situ SERS Borrowing Strategy

(2021) Huajie Ze et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Bioinspired Redox Mediator in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries

(2021) Muqing Ren et al.   ACS Catalysis

Operando Methods in Electrocatalysis

(2021) Yao Yang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Laser Synthesis and Microfabrication of Micro/Nanostructured Materials Toward Energy Conversion and Storage

(2021) Lili Zhao et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Approaches to achieve surface sensitivity in the in situ XAS of electrocatalysts

(2021) Haoliang Huang et al.   Current Opinion in Electrochemistry

Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts toward Practical Fuel Cells: Progress and Perspectives

(2021) Shahid Zaman et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Defect and Doping Co-Engineered Non-Metal Nanocarbon ORR Electrocatalyst

(2021) Jian Zhang et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Recent Advances in Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells

(2021) Fei Xiao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Operando Cooperated Catalytic Mechanism of Atomically Dispersed Cu−N 4 and Zn−N 4 for Promoting Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Miaomiao Tong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tailoring Acidic Oxygen Reduction Selectivity on Single-Atom Catalysts via Modification of First and Second Coordination Spheres

(2021) Cheng Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unraveling the Origin of Sulfur‐doped Fe‐N‐C Single Atom Catalyst for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity: Effect of Fe‐spin State Tuning

(2021) Zhaoyang Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Non-precious metal electrocatalysts design for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: Recent advances, challenges and future perspectives

(2021) Maryam Kiani et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Dynamic Behavior of Single-Atom Catalysts in Electrocatalysis: Identification of Cu-N3 as an Active Site for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2021) Ji Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rational design of Fe-N-C electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: From nanoparticles to single atoms

(2021) Mengru Sun et al.   Nano Research

Resolving multifrequential oscillations and nanoscale interfacet communication in single-particle catalysis

(2021) Y. Suchorski et al.   SCIENCE

Design Engineering, Synthesis Protocols, and Energy Applications of MOF-Derived Electrocatalysts

(2021) Amr Radwan et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

In Situ Monitoring the Potassium-Ion Storage Enhancement in Iron Selenide with Ether-Based Electrolyte

(2021) Xiaodan Li et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Engineering the Coordination Sphere of Isolated Active Sites to Explore the Intrinsic Activity in Single-Atom Catalysts

(2021) Xin Wu et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Understanding the inter-site distance effect in single-atom catalysts for oxygen electroreduction

(2021) Zhaoyu Jin et al.   Nature Catalysis

In situ 57Fe mössbauer study of a porphyrin based FeNC catalyst for ORR

(2021) Lingmei Ni et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

Revealing the Correlations between Morphological Evolution and Surface Reactivity of Catalytic Cathodes in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries

(2021) Zhen-Zhen Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanostructure@metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for catalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion in photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and thermal catalysis

(2021) Haiqing Wang   Nano Research

Atomically Dispersed Transition Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Zinc-Air Batteries: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

(2021) Fang Dong et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Rationalization on high-loading iron and cobalt dual metal single atoms and mechanistic insight into the oxygen reduction reaction

(2021) Min Jiang et al.   Nano Energy

Interrogation of the Reaction Mechanism in a Na-O2 Battery Using In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2020) Shaobo Han et al.   ACS Nano

Uniform Virus‐Like Co–N–Cs Electrocatalyst Derived from Prussian Blue Analog for Stretchable Fiber‐Shaped Zn–Air Batteries

(2020) Shengmei Chen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

In Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Disentangles the Roles of Copper and Silver in a Bimetallic Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Brenna M. Gibbons et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Molecular Design of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Chengzhang Wan et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Nanoparticle-Decorated Ultrathin La2O3 Nanosheets as an Efficient Electrocatalysis for Oxygen Evolution Reactions

(2020) Guangyuan Yan et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Probing the Self‐Boosting Catalysis of LiCoO 2 in Li–O 2 Battery with Multiple In Situ/Operando Techniques

(2020) Rui Gao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Activity of Pt-based Electrocatalysts: from Theoretical Mechanisms to Practical Methods

(2020) Zhong Ma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Structural Designs and in‐situ X‐ray Characterizations of Metal Phosphides for Electrocatalysis

(2020) Youkui Zhang et al.   ChemCatChem

Atomically Dispersed Fe-N4 Modified with Precisely Located S for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction

(2020) Yin Jia et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Advanced Characterization Techniques for Identifying the Key Active Sites of Gas‐Involved Electrocatalysts

(2020) Yumin Da et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Revealing Kinetics of Two-Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction at Single-Molecule Level

(2020) Yi Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In Situ Electrochemical Mn(III)/Mn(IV) Generation of Mn(II)O Electrocatalysts for High-Performance Oxygen Reduction

(2020) Han Tian et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

In-situ observation as activity descriptor enables rational design of oxygen reduction catalyst for zinc-air battery

(2020) Haoqing Ji et al.   Energy Storage Materials

Coexisting Single‐Atomic Fe and Ni Sites on Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon as a Highly Efficient ORR Electrocatalyst

(2020) Zhengju Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2020) Janis Timoshenko et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Surface Mechanism of Catalytic Electrodes in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries: How Nanostructures Mediate the Interfacial Reactions

(2020) Zhen-Zhen Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Intermetallic PtCu Nanoframes as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

(2020) Ho Young Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Advanced transition metal/nitrogen/carbon-based electrocatalysts for fuel cell applications

(2020) Tang Tang et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Probing the active site in single-atom oxygen reduction catalysts via operando X-ray and electrochemical spectroscopy

(2020) Hsiang-Ting Lien et al.   Nature Communications

Overall Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Nitrogen‐Modified Carbon Catalysts: Identification of Active Sites and In Situ Observation of Reactive Intermediates

(2020) Yangming Lin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Rhombohedral Ordered Intermetallic Nanocatalyst Boosts the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2020) Xueru Zhao et al.   ACS Catalysis

MnN 4 Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst: Operando Investigation of Active Sites and High Performance in Zinc–Air Battery

(2020) Xu Han et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Identification of the Electronic and Structural Dynamics of Catalytic Centers in Single-Fe-Atom Material

(2020) Xuning Li et al.   Chem

Identification of durable and non-durable FeNx sites in Fe–N–C materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

(2020) Jingkun Li et al.   Nature Catalysis

Structure evolution of PtCu nanoframes from disordered to ordered for the oxygen reduction reaction

(2020) Mingxing Gong et al.   APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL

In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Synergistic Co-Mn Oxide Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2019) Yao Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Lattice-strained metal–organic-framework arrays for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis

(2019) Weiren Cheng et al.   Nature Energy

Promoting Surface-mediated Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Solid Catalysts in Metal-O2 batteries by Capturing Superoxide Species

(2019) Peng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Understanding the Reaction Chemistry during Charging in Aprotic Lithium-Oxygen Batteries: Existing Problems and Solutions

(2019) Chaozhu Shu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Review of Recent Development of In Situ/Operando Characterization Techniques for Lithium Battery Research

(2019) Dongqing Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A comprehensive insight into the electrolytes for rechargeable lithium-air batteries

(2019) Jingning Lai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new promising catalytic activity on blue phosphorene nitrogen-doped nanosheets for the ORR as cathode in nonaqueous Li–air batteries

(2019) Yi Xiao et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Direct Observation of Redox Mediator-Assisted Solution-Phase Discharging of Li–O2 Battery by Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2019) Donghoon Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pt‐Based Nanocrystal for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

(2019) Zipeng Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Nanoscale Electrocatalysts

(2019) Maoyu Wang et al.   Nano-Micro Letters

Probing Enhanced Site Activity of Co–Fe Bimetallic Subnanoclusters Derived from Dual Cross-Linked Hydrogels for Oxygen Electrocatalysis

(2019) Panpan Li et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Platinum Porous Nanosheets with High Surface Distortion and Pt Utilization for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Catalysis

(2019) Yonggang Feng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Design and fabrication of non‐noble metal catalyst‐based air‐cathodes for metal‐air battery

(2019) Lei Zhang et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Understanding Active Sites in Pyrolyzed Fe–N–C Catalysts for Fuel Cell Cathodes by Bridging Density Functional Theory Calculations and 57Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy

(2019) Tzonka Mineva et al.   ACS Catalysis

2D Electrocatalysts for Converting Earth‐Abundant Simple Molecules into Value‐Added Commodity Chemicals: Recent Progress and Perspectives

(2019) Huajie Yin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

In situ Spectroscopic Insight into the Origin of the Enhanced Performance of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)

(2019) Ya-Hao Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Real-Time Imaging of the Electrochemical Process in Na–O2 Nanobatteries Using Pt@CNT and Pt0.8Ir0.2@CNT Air Cathodes

(2019) Yuanmin Zhu et al.   ACS Nano

DFT calculations: A powerful tool for better understanding of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reactions on Pt-based metallic catalysts

(2019) Chengrui Fu et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Direct In Situ Raman Spectroscopic Evidence of Oxygen Reduction Reaction Intermediates at High-Index Pt(hkl) Surfaces

(2019) Jin-Chao Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Supramolecular confinement of single Cu atoms in hydrogel frameworks for oxygen reduction electrocatalysis with high atom utilization

(2019) Panpan Li et al.   Materials Today

In-situ X-ray techniques for non-noble electrocatalysts

(2019) Sung-Fu Hung   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Shape Stability of Octahedral PtNi Nanocatalysts for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction Studied by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2018) Martin Gocyla et al.   ACS Nano

Single-Site Active Iron-Based Bifunctional Oxygen Catalyst for a Compressible and Rechargeable Zinc–Air Battery

(2018) Longtao Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Adsorbed Intermediates in Oxygen Reduction on Platinum Nanoparticles Observed by In situ IR Spectroscopy

(2018) Simantini Nayak et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrolyte additives for lithium metal anodes and rechargeable lithium metal batteries: progresses and perspectives

(2018) Heng Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Insight into the effect of intercalated alkaline cations of layered manganese oxides on the oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction

(2018) Soracha Kosasang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

In situ analytical techniques for battery interface analysis

(2018) Alok M. Tripathi et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Active-Phase Formation and Stability of Gd/Pt(111) Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction: An In Situ Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Study

(2018) María Escudero-Escribano et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Unlocking the door to highly active ORR catalysts for PEMFC applications: polyhedron-engineered Pt-based nanocrystals

(2018) Yan-Jie Wang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Microporous Framework Induced Synthesis of Single-Atom Dispersed Fe-N-C Acidic ORR Catalyst and Its in Situ Reduced Fe-N4 Active Site Identification Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2018) Meiling Xiao et al.   ACS Catalysis

Carbon-supported metal nanodendrites as efficient, stable catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

(2018) Luna B. Venarusso et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Nanoalloy catalysts inside fuel cells: An atomic-level perspective on the functionality by combined in operando x-ray spectroscopy and total scattering

(2018) Valeri Petkov et al.   Nano Energy

On-Chip in Situ Monitoring of Competitive Interfacial Anionic Chemisorption as a Descriptor for Oxygen Reduction Kinetics

(2018) Mengning Ding et al.   ACS Central Science

Nanoscale Structure Design for High-Performance Pt-Based ORR Catalysts

(2018) Meiling Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hollow-Structured Metal Oxides as Oxygen-Related Catalysts

(2018) Keke Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

In situ Raman spectroscopic evidence for oxygen reduction reaction intermediates at platinum single-crystal surfaces

(2018) Jin-Chao Dong et al.   Nature Energy

Revealing Surface Elemental Composition and Dynamic Processes Involved in Facet-Dependent Oxidation of Pt3Co Nanoparticles via in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2017) Sheng Dai et al.   NANO LETTERS

The path towards sustainable energy

(2017) Steven Chu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Synchrotron radiation in situ X-ray absorption fine structure and in situ X-ray diffraction analysis of a high-performance cobalt catalyst towards the oxygen reduction reaction

(2017) Haiying Qin et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Rechargeable Solid-State Li-Air and Li-S Batteries: Materials, Construction, and Challenges

(2017) Yijie Liu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Metal-Organic Framework-Derived Non-Precious Metal Nanocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2017) Shaofang Fu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Web-like 3D Architecture of Pt Nanowires and Sulfur-Doped Carbon Nanotube with Superior Electrocatalytic Performance

(2017) Md Ariful Hoque et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Highly Functional Bioinspired Fe/N/C Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts: Structure-Regulating Oxygen Sorption

(2016) Yingfang Yao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Carbon-Based Metal-Free Catalysts for Electrocatalysis beyond the ORR

(2016) Chuangang Hu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Analysis of electrolyte level change in a lithium air battery

(2016) Jing Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Ultrathin Icosahedral Pt-Enriched Nanocage with Excellent Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity

(2016) Dong Sheng He et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Understanding the High Activity of Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts in Oxygen Reduction: Fe/Fe3C Nanoparticles Boost the Activity of Fe–Nx

(2016) Wen-Jie Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Insight into Sulfide-Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Stability of Commercial Pt Black: An in Situ Raman Spectroscopic Study

(2016) Yan-Yan Wang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Minimizing Operando Demetallation of Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts in Acidic Medium

(2016) Chang Hyuck Choi et al.   ACS Catalysis

In Situ Mechanistic Investigation of O2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrin Electrocatalysts Using Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Coupled to Rotating Disk Electrode (SERRS-RDE) Setup

(2016) Kushal Sengupta et al.   ACS Catalysis

In situ characterization of electrochemical processes in one dimensional nanomaterials for energy storages devices

(2016) Xinyu Ma et al.   Nano Energy

Characterization of oxygenated species at water/Pt(111) interfaces from DFT energetics and XPS simulations

(2016) Zhenhua Zeng et al.   Nano Energy

Criteria and Considerations for the Selection of Redox Mediators in Nonaqueous Li–O2 Batteries

(2016) Vikram Pande et al.   ACS Energy Letters

An on-chip electrical transport spectroscopy approach for in situ monitoring electrochemical interfaces

(2015) Mengning Ding et al.   Nature Communications

In Situ Spectroscopic Evidence for Ordered Core–Ultrathin Shell Pt1Co1 Nanoparticles with Enhanced Activity and Stability as Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

(2014) Qingying Jia et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

In Situ AFM Imaging of Li–O2 Electrochemical Reaction on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite with Ether-Based Electrolyte

(2013) Rui Wen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In Situ TEM Electromechanical Testing of Nanowires and Nanotubes

(2012) Horacio D. Espinosa et al.   Small

In Situ Electrochemical X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis with High Oxygen Flux

(2011) Evan M. Erickson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Studying Atomic Structures by Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2008) K. W. Urban   SCIENCE