title: Engineering of Carbon-Based Electrocatalysts for Emerging Energy Conversion: From Fundamentality to Functionality.
abstract: Over the past decade, developing advanced catalysts for clean and sustainable energy conversion has been subject to extensive study. Driven by great advances achieved in computational quantum chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and material characterization techniques, the preferential design of a most-appropriate catalyst for a specific electrochemical reaction is possible. Here a universal process for the design of high-performance carbon-based electrocatalysts, by engineering their intrinsic electronic structures and physical structures to promote their extrinsic activities for different energy conversion reactions, is presented and summarized. How such a powerful strategy may aid the discovery of more electrocatalysts for a sustainable and clean energy infrastructure is discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.|School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.
authors.forename: Shi Zhang
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Qiao
keywords: DFT calculations; electrochemistry; energy conversion; nanomaterials