Carbon-Based Metal-Free Catalysts, 2 Volumes

4Designing Porous Structures and Active Sites in Carbon‐Based Electrocatalysts

Jian Zhang¹, Xiaodong Zhuang¹, Klaus Müllen², and Xinliang Feng¹

¹Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Mommsenstrasse. 4, 01062 Dresden, Germany

²Max‐Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Synthetic Chemistry, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany

4.1 Introduction

The increasing demand for energy and serious environmental concerns have motivated the urgent pursuit of clean and sustainable energy conversion technologies as alternatives to traditional thermal engines [1, 2]. Due to the high energy density of hydrogen and its pollution‐free features, fuel cells and water‐splitting ...