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

Transition metal-based electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) usually undergo ambiguous reaction pathways due to various bond coordination at active centers. Understanding and further controlling the chemical bonds coordination under catalytic conditions is of significant importance to develop highly efficient OER catalysts. We focus on that issue and keep making progress. Recent papers are listed as follows: 

1. Engineering the electrical conductivity of lamellar silver-doped cobalt(II) selenide nanobelts for enhanced oxygen evolution. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 328. 

2. Isolated Pd atom anchoring endows cobalt diselenides with regulated water-reduction kinetics for alkaline hydrogen evolution. Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 2021, 295, 120280.