Covers the cutting-edge characterization techniques, theoretical calculations for different electrochemical energy conversion reactions.
1. Introduction
2. Electrochemical Energy Conversion Techniques
3. Basic Concepts and Theories of Small Molecule Catalysis
4. In-situ Characterization Techniques for Small Molecule Catalysis
5. Dynamic Structural Evolution Identification via X-ray Absorption Fine
Structure
6. Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
7. Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction
8. Electrochemical Hydrogen/Liquid Fuel Oxidation
9. Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction
10. Electrochemical Conversion of Biomass Derivatives
11. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and Conversion
12. Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation and Conversion
13. Electrochemical Carbon-Nitrogen Coupling Reaction
14. Electrochemical Fluorination
15. Electrochemical Polymerization
16. Computational Approaches for Catalysis Evaluation and Prediction
17. Summary and Perspective
Zhicheng Zhang is currently a Professor of Tianjin University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 2012. Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University. In 2014, he worked as a senior research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2019, he joined Tianjin University as a full Professor. His research interests focus on the design and synthesis of functional metal-based nanomaterials and their applications in energy conversion and catalysis. To date, he has published more than 120 peer-reviewed SCI papers. Now he is the associate editor of SmartMat, and editorial board member of Nano Research, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Rare Metals, etc.
Yuanmiao Sun is currently an Associate Professor of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 2018. Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University for five years. In 2023, he joined Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology as an Associate Professor. His research interests focus on the design of efficient functional materials via multi-dimensional computation modeling and calculation. To date, he has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers with an H-index of 32.
