Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Lu, Song"
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Breaking Scaling Relations for Highly Efficient Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on Atomically Dispersed Heteronuclear Dual-Atom Catalyst
Lu, Song; Mazur, Michal; Guo, Kun; Stoian, Dragos Constantin; Gu, Minfen; Tucho, Wakshum Mekonnen; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Conversion of CO2 into value-added products by electrocatalysis provides a promising way to mitigate energy and environmental problems. However, it is greatly limited by the scaling relationship between the adsorption ... -
Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO by Ag-Decorated B-Doped g-C3N4: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study
Lu, Song; Zhang, Yang; Mady, Mohamed Fawzy Hamed Attia; Tucho, Wakshum Mekonnen; Lou, Fengliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) has received great attention in energy conversion and CO2 mitigation. In recent years, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has been regarded as a very promising support for metal nanoparticles ... -
Enabling Increased Delithiation Rates in Silicon-Based Anodes through Alloying with Phosphorus
Huld, Frederik Thorbjørn; Lai, Samson Yuxiu; Tucho, Wakshum Mekonnen; Batmaz, Rasim; Jensen, Ingvild Julie Thue; Lu, Song; Eleri, Obinna Egwu; Koposov, Alexey; Yu, Zhixin; Lou, Fengliu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The capability of battery materials to deliver not only high lithium storage capacity, but also the ability to operate at high charge/discharge rates is an essential property for development of new batteries. In the present ... -
Leveraging Synergies by Combining Polytetrafluorethylene with Polyvinylidene Fluoride for Solvent-Free Graphite Anode Fabrication
Zhang, Yang; Lu, Song; Lou, Fengliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Solvent-free graphite anode is fabricated successfully with the synergistic effect of polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). PTFE acts as a processing aid reagent to form a self-supporting electrode ... -
Non-precious metal activated MoSi2N4 monolayers for high-performance OER and ORR electrocatalysts: A first-principles study
Lu, Song; Zhang, Yangzi; Lou, Fengliu; Guo, Kun; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Developing high-performance electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is crucial for energy conversion and storage. Recently, a new type of two-dimensional material MoSi2N4 ... -
Recent Progress in Two-Dimensional Materials for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction
Lu, Song; Lou, Fengliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (ECR) is an attractive approach to convert atmospheric CO2 to value-added chemicals and fuels. However, this process is still hindered by sluggish CO2 reaction kinetics and the lack of efficient ... -
Recent technology development in solvent-free electrode fabrication for lithium-ion batteries
Zhang, Yang; Lu, Song; WANG, Zaisheng; Volkov, Vladislav; LOU, feng liu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)Electrodes for commercial lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are typically manufactured with slurry-casting (SC) procedure. The high cost and limited energy density caused by SC procedure impede new emerging application. Developing ... -
Revisiting Polytetrafluorethylene Binder for Solvent-Free Lithium-Ion Battery Anode Fabrication
Zhang, Yang; Huld, Frederik; Lu, Song; Jektvik, Camilla; Lou, Fenliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Solvent-free (SF) anodes with different carbon materials (graphite, hard carbon, and soft carbon) were fabricated to investigate the stability of different anodes with polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) degradation. The graphite ... -
Solvent-free lithium iron phosphate cathode fabrication with fibrillation of polytetrafluoroethylene
Zhang, Yang; Lu, Song; Lou, Fengliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Fabricating electrode for lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) with solvent-free (SF) procedure can save energy and improve electrochemical performance simultaneously. Polymer fibrillation is one of the most promising SF procedures ... -
Sulfur‐Decorated Ni−N−C Catalyst for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Near 100 % CO Selectivity
Lu, Song; Zhang, Yang; Mady, Mohamed F; Eleri, Obinna Egwu; Tucho, Wakshum Mekonnen; Mazur, Michal; Li, Ang; Lou, Fengliu; Gu, Mingfen; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08)Developing highly efficient electrocatalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR) to value-added products is important for CO2 conversion and utilization technologies. In this work, a sulfur-doped Ni−N−C catalyst is ... -
Theoretical study of single transition metal atom catalysts supported on two-dimensional Nb2NO2 for efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to CH4
Lu, Song; Zhang, Yang; Lou, Feng liu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)The design of highly efficient catalysts for electrochemical reduction CO2 (ECR) to value-add chemicals and fuels is important for CO2 conversion technologies. In this work, earth abundant transition metal (TM = V, Cr, Mn, ... -
Transition metal single-atom supported on PC3 monolayer for highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction by combined density functional theory and machine learning study
Lu, Song; Cao, Jie; Zhang, Yang; Lou, feng liu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)It is essential to develop non-precious metal-based alternatives used in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to high cost and scarcity of Pt-based catalysts. Herein, through density functional theory (DFT) calculations, ... -
Transition Metal−N/Graphene for advanced Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: A first principles study
Zhang, Yang; Lu, Song; Ugochukwu, Kingsley; Lou, Fengliu; Yu, Zhixin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Developing highly efficient anchoring materials with strong adsorption to lithium polysulfides to suppress ‘shuttling effect’ is crucial to address the short cycling life issue of lithium sulfur batteries. Herein, we ... -
Transition-metal-mediated electrocatalytic CO2 reduction: from nanoparticles to single-atom catalysts
Lu, Song (PhD Theses;709, Doctoral thesis, 2023)With the rapid development of the global economy, energy crisis and environment issues have become increasingly prominent. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a primary greenhouse gas (CHG), while it could also be a valuable carbon ...