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Carbon-based electrocatalysts are considered as promising alternatives to the state-of-the-art precious metal catalysts. Heteroatom doping can effectively create highly active catalytic centers, but unfortunately, resulting in lower electronic conductivity and thus hindering the electrocatalysis process.

Modern precious metal catalysts are regarded to be expensive and inefficient compared to carbon-based electrocatalysts. Heteroatom doping can simply create highly active catalytic centers, but it also results in poorer electronic conductivity, impeding electrocatalysis.

Professors Yingwei Li and Kui Shen of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the South China University of Technology are the study’s principal authors.