Non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts for practical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) usually undergo ambiguous and restricted reaction paths with unsatisfied performance due to the dynamic coordination environments of active sites under reaction conditions. Understanding and further regulating the dynamic coordination environments of metal active sites under electro-oxidation OER conditions is of significant importance to develop highly efficient and stable non-noble metal-based catalysts for practical anion-exchange-membrane water electrolysis. We focus on that issue and keep making progress. Recent papers are listed as follows: 

1. Engineering Co-ion vacancy in dynamically reconstructed Co-based catalysts for practical anion-exchange membrane electrolysis. Nat. Commun. 2026, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69547-1.

2. Localizing the long-range disorder of reconstructed cobalt oxyhydroxides for anion exchange membrane water electrolysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202513592.

3. Atomic-level insight into engineering interfacial hydrogen microenvironments of metal-based catalysts for alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis. Energy Environ. Sci. 2025, 18, 5811.

Anion-exchange-membrane fuel cells are highly attractive as an efficient hydrogen conversion device owing to the advantages of employing economic catalysts in alkaline electrolytes. However, the kinetics of the anodic hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) over metal-based catalysts becomes relatively sluggish in alkaline electrolytes in comparation with that in acid systems, due to the mismatched interfacial delivery/binding behaviors of reactants during HOR. To this end, we focus on the atomic design of metal-based catalysts with well-tuned delivery/binding behaviors of crucial intermediates for alkaline HOR. Recent papers are listed as follows:

1. Nanotwinning of the nickel nitride nanosheets for robust hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202525035.

2. Controlling the valence-electron arrangement of nickel active centers for efficient hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202206588.