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2022 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

3. Characterization

verfasst von : Miaoying Chen, Dongping Xue, Bang-An Lu

Erschienen in: Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

The characterization approach is one of the most challenging aspects of researching carbon-based nanomaterials, particularly carbon-based catalysts with defects and atomically dispersion. It's difficult to precisely identify the active sites of catalysts using early characterization approaches, which makes disclosing the catalytic mechanism and constructing high-efficiency catalysts challenging. High-efficiency carbon-based catalysts have improved in recent years, thanks to extensive use of current characterization techniques (e.g., ex-situ, in-situ, and operando) and simulation calculation approaches (e.g., first-principles and molecular dynamics simulation calculations). This chapter emphasizes the characterization methodologies that reveal the true active sites, catalytic processes, and structure–activity relationships of carbon-based nanomaterials from three perspectives: direct visualization, indirect validation, and simulation calculations.

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Metadaten
Titel
Characterization
verfasst von
Miaoying Chen
Dongping Xue
Bang-An Lu
Copyright-Jahr
2022
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4625-7_3

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