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Impact of Intermittent Operation on Lifetime and Performance of a PEM Water Electrolyzer

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The aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of performance degrading mechanisms occurring when a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEM-WE) is coupled with renewable energies, where times of operation and idle periods alternate. An ...

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Techno-Economic Optimization of CO2-to-Methanol with Solid-Oxide Electrolyzer

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Single molybdenum center supported on N-doped black phosphorus as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation

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Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most significant industrial chemical products due to its wide applications in various fields. However, the production of NH3 from the electrochemical nitrogen (N-2) reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions is one of the ...

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Synergistic effects at metal/metal oxide interfaces often give rise to highly active and selective catalytic motifs. So far, such interactions have been rarely explored to enhance the selectivity in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). Herei ...

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In Situ Electrochemical Oxidation of Cu2S into CuO Nanowires as a Durable and Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

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Development of cost-effective oxygen evolution catalysts is of capital importance for the deployment of large-scale energy-storage systems based on metal-air batteries and reversible fuel cells. In this direction, a wide range of materials have been explor ...

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