A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective

Li, Weishan; Weng, Beibei; Sun, Xiaoyue; Cai, Bin; Hübner, René; Luo, Yunjun; Du, Ran

doi:10.3390/catal13010167

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A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective

by

Weishan Li

¹,

Beibei Weng

¹,

Xiaoyue Sun

¹

,

Bin Cai

^2,*

,

René Hübner

³

,

Yunjun Luo

¹

and

Ran Du

^1,*

¹

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of High Energy Density Materials of the Ministry of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

²

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

³

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany

^*

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Catalysts 2023, 13(1), 167; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13010167

Submission received: 17 October 2022 / Revised: 24 December 2022 / Accepted: 9 January 2023 / Published: 10 January 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal-Based Aerogels and Porous Composites as Efficient Catalysts: Synthesis and Catalytic Performance)

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Nowadays, great efforts have been spent on addressing concerns over energy and environmental crises. Among these efforts, electrocatalysis is widely recognized and studied for its high efficiency and easy processability. As a class of emerging electrocatalysts, metal aerogels (MAs) stand out in the last decade. In virtue of their three-dimensional conductive pathways, their library of catalytically/optically active sites, and their robust network structures, MAs have unique advantages in electrocatalysis. However, due to the short history of MAs, there is insufficient research on them, leaving significant room for material design and performance optimization. This perspective will mainly focus on electrocatalysis with MAs, aiming to summarize the state-of-the-art progress and to guide the on-target design of efficient MAs-based electrocatalysts towards energy- and environment-related applications.

Keywords: electrocatalysis; metal aerogels; sol-gel; nanostructures; porous materials

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Li, W.; Weng, B.; Sun, X.; Cai, B.; Hübner, R.; Luo, Y.; Du, R. A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective. Catalysts 2023, 13, 167. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13010167

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Li W, Weng B, Sun X, Cai B, Hübner R, Luo Y, Du R. A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective. Catalysts. 2023; 13(1):167. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13010167

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Li, Weishan, Beibei Weng, Xiaoyue Sun, Bin Cai, René Hübner, Yunjun Luo, and Ran Du. 2023. "A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective" Catalysts 13, no. 1: 167. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13010167

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Li, W., Weng, B., Sun, X., Cai, B., Hübner, R., Luo, Y., & Du, R. (2023). A Decade of Electrocatalysis with Metal Aerogels: A Perspective. Catalysts, 13(1), 167. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13010167

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