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Recent advances and applications of on-chip micro-/nanodevices for energy conversion and storage
Haiyan Xiang, Jan E. Lopez, Travis Hu, Jiayuan Cheng, Jizhou Jiang, Huimin Li, Tang Liu, Song Liu
Composite Functional Materials
, 2025, 1(
1
): 20250102. DOI:
10.63823/20250102
Figure 3.
An analysis of practical configuration, lab testing equipment and on-chip micro-device.
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Timeline for the on-chip microcell in electrocatalysis.
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(a) Annual number of publications by using keyword of “on-chip electrocatalysis” from Web of Science on January 7, 2025. (b) The hot spot in the total circulation.
Figure 4.
(a) Schematic of the on-chip setup. Optical image of a MoS
2
showing the (b) basal and (c) edge planes. (d) LSV and (e) Tafel plots of the MoS
2
with basal plane and edge, the electrolyte was argon-purged in 0.5 M H
2
SO
4
and scan rate was set at 10 mV s
−1
. (f) LSV and (g) Tafel curves of monolayer 1T′-MoS
2
basal plane, and edge in HER.
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2
with (h3) the basal and (h4) edge exposed.
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domains and (i3) corresponding height of monolayer WS
2
. (i4) Schematic of the spiral domain growth modes. (i5) Schematic of the atomic arrangement in spiral WS
2
.
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2
and WTe
2
with different exposed area, the overpotential of (100), (010) edge and basal plane is 320 ± 10 mV, 350 ± 10 mV and 390 ± 20 mV respectively at 10 mA cm
−2
. (j2) Summary of the overpotentials for WTe
2
with different exposed sites. (j3) LSV of WTe
2
with basal plane. (j4) LSV of MoS
2
with a graphene contact, as well as from the MoS
2
/graphene heterostructure.
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Figure 5.
The diagram of fabrication process. (b) The LSV for EM-1, EM-2, and EM-3, with an inset image EM-1, the overpotential of EM-1 and EM-2 is 165 mV and 200 mV, respectively. Scale bar, 20 μm (c) Tafel plots corresponding the (b).
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flakes ranging from 1 to 20 layers, insets show the corresponding AFM images. (the same height scale for AFM images, the scale bar of first is 1 μm, others is 0.5 μm) (e) LSV and Tafel slops for the HER. (f) ΔG
H
diagram for HER of different layer PtSe
2
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Figure 6.
(a1) The HAADF STEM image of the GBs between three MoS
2
grains, the inset on the left shows the Fourier transform. (a2) The composite color-coded inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) image. (a3) illustrates the Geometrical Phase Analysis (GPA) routine.
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(b1) Schematic of HER process on P-MoS
2
nanosheets. (b2) and (b3) show the LSV and Tafel plots for the MoS
2
and P-MoS
2
, The edge sites show an onset potential (η
10
) of 297 mV and a Tafel slope of 97 mV dec
−1
for HER, exceeding those of the basal plane with 328 mV and 108 mV dec
−1
. (b4) Optical images of edge and basal plane on a P-MoS
2
. (b5) and (b6) display the electrochemical and electronic signals of a MoS
2
and P-MoS
2
during the HER. (b7) Illustrates the electronic structure of P-MoS
2
, aligning the Fermi levels.
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. (c2) Schematic of Mo ML-MoS
2
. (c3) Details the synthesis of metal SAs on a ML-MoS
2
. HAADF-STEM images in panels (c4) and (c5) depict Mo SAs on ML-MoS
2
and tungsten SAs on monolayer WS
2
samples, respectively. (c6) statistical results on the density of Mo and W SAs on 2D monolayers.
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surface, perfect PtSe
2
and defective PtSe
x
.
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Figure 7.
(a) Schematic of the gate-modulation electrochemical device. (b) Optical images of 2H-MoS
2
with Au pads. (c) LSV of gate-dependent HER measurements, the green and red curves show the improvement in electrocatalytic activity after applying a positive gate voltage of 10 and 20 V, respectively.
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device at different gate bias.
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at various back-gate biases.
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Figure 8.
(a) Schematic of the microcell-based in situ electronic/electrochemical measurement. (b) Optical image of the microcell. (c) Typical electrochemical (y axis in black) and electronic (y axis in red) signals of single-layer WS
2
during the HER at different bias potentials. Self-gating phenomenon of (d) n-type MoS
2
, (e) p-type WSe
1.8
Te
0.2
, and (f) bipolar WSe
2
, typically, n-type MoS
2
is turned on at a negative electrochemical potential and only delivers the HER, p-type WSe
1.8
Te
0.2
is turned on at a positive electrochemical potential and only delivers the OER, bipolar WSe
2
is turned on at both negative and positive electrochemical.
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G
-V
G
and normalized G
SD
-V
G
characteristics of a typical Pt NW device, I
G
-V
G
resembles the typical CV characteristic of a polycrystalline Pt surface, containing redox regions of HER, H adsorption/desorption region (Hupd), double layer (DL) region, surface oxide formation/reduction region (Oupd) and OER. (k) The differentiated ETS curve illustrates spectral peak characteristics. (l) Schematic of various Pt surface conditions along with the sweeping electrochemical potentials (left black axis) and the corresponding changes in conductivity.
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(a) Schematic of an STM-based time-dependent tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS).
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Table 1
Summary of on-chip HER electrocatalytic devices.
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(a) Schematic of the formation process of the Cr-WSe
2
/graphene heterojunction. (b) Schematic of the on-chip electrocatalytic device.
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3
O
4
, P
0
-Co
3
O
4
and P-Co
3
O
4
thin-films. Inset: The schematic of in situ I-V measurements. The applied potentials in WE1 and WE2 (called V1 and V2) increase synchronously vs. RHE, from 1 to 1.8 V, and keep the constant tiny potential difference ΔV (ΔV=1 mV).
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(a) The relationship between the thicknesses of Pd and Pd
4
Ag nanowire films and their phase transition responses (ΔR
MHx
) is illustrated on the ETS. (b) Schematic of electron scattering in metals with surface adsorbates and hydrides. A schematic of the different Pd-H states in (c) KHCO
3
and (d) K
2
HPO
4
/KH
2
PO
4
and the corresponding CO
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RR processes at the interfaces. (e) Summary of phase transition potentials of Pd and Pd
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Ag under CO
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RR conditions in KHCO
3
and K
2
HPO
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/KH
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PO
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obtained at 10 mV/s.
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(g1, g2) Schematic of the nanoelectronic measurement setup. (g3) Optical microscope (OM) image of MR-1 in dark-field mode. (g4) An ex situ SEM image of MR-1. (g5) Schematic of biofilm measurements. (g6) Schematic of the electrochemistry model at the interface of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1.
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(a) Schematics of fabrication process of the single nanowire photovoltaic device. (b, c, d) SEM images corresponding to schematics in a.
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-Li microbattery.
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(a) Illustration of atomic defects observed in single-layer V-MoS
2
. (b) Statistical analysis of the concentration of these atomic defects.
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O
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. (d) Total electronic density of states for Co
3
O
4
and P-Co
3
O
4
. (e) Calculated PDOS of Co
3
O
4
and P-Co
3
O
4
. (f) Calculated free energy diagram of the OER on Co
3
O
4
and P- Co
3
O
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surface. (h) The computed band structures of the MoS
2
surface with 5.5% S vacancies at various induced charge levels. (i) The charge density difference of a monolayer of MoS
2
with 5.5% S vacancies.
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(a) Fabrication and structural characterization of SST-MPCs.
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Figure 15.
Prospects for on-chip microcells. The challenges in this emergent field, such as limited catalyst size. The applications of the on-chip microcells, e.g., the expansion, other application and advanced characterization are expected.
