Recent Advances in Mechanistic Understanding of Metal-Free Carbon Thermocatalysis and Electrocatalysis with Model Molecules

Wei Guo; Linhui Yu; Ling Tang; Yan Wan; Yangming Lin

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01262-8

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 125(2024)

Recent Advances in Mechanistic Understanding of Metal-Free Carbon Thermocatalysis and Electrocatalysis with Model Molecules

Wei Guo1...2,3,†, Linhui Yu4,†, Ling Tang1,2,3, Yan Wan1,2,3, and Yangming Lin1,23,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, People’s Republic of China

²Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People’s Republic of China

³State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, People’s Republic of China

⁴Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People’s Republic of China

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