59 Prof. Elbaz Lior Department of Chemistry Member of BINA Nano-Energy Center Nano & Advanced Materials Center Research Areas Electrocatalysis and material development for energy generation devices. Abstract The dependence of the free world on fossil fuels is increasing rapidly, whereas the world’s reserves are diminishing. Moreover, the effect of using such fuels on climate change, public health and nature is detrimental. The best way to reduce this dependence and even eliminate it is the further development of renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells and electrolyzers. In order for them to take over the energy market, our projects are focused on developing bio-inspired catalysts for ORR as well as improving precious metal-based catalysts for fuel cells and electrolyzres. Tungsten carbide support appears to enhance the oxygen reduction activity on Pt, showing an increase in mass activity and specific activity. A significant increase in durability was also observed with the tungsten carbide-based system. Publications 2022 and 2023 • Hao Shi, Tanyuan Wang, Jianyun Liu, Weiwei Chen, Shenzhou Li, Jiashun Liang, Shuxia Liu, Xuan Liu, Zhao Cai, Chao Wang, Dong Su, Yunhui Huang, Lior Elbaz, Qing Li. “A sodium-ion-conducted asymmetric electrolyzer to lower the operation voltage for direct seawater electrolysis”. Nature Communications, 2023. • Yan Yurko, Lior Elbaz. “Advanced impedance analysis of direct quinone fuel cells using distribution of relaxation times”. Electrochimica Acta, 2023. • Yeela Persky, Łukasz Kielesiński, Samala Nagaprasad Reddy, Noam Zion, Ariel Friedman, Hilah C Honig, Beata Koszarna, Michael J Zachman, Ilya Grinberg, Daniel T Gryko, Lior Elbaz. “Biomimetic Fe–Cu Porphyrrole Aerogel Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction”. ACS Catalysis, 2023. • Shmuel Gonen, Oran Lori, Noam Zion, Lior Elbaz. “Conductive Ytterbium Metal–Organic Framework Composite: A Lanthanide-Based Complex ORR Catalyst”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023. • Hilah C Honig, Lior Elbaz. “Degradation Mechanisms of Platinum Group MetalFree Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyst based on Iron Phthalocyanine”. ChemElectroChem, 2023. • Leigh Peles-Strahl, Yeela Persky, Lior Elbaz. “Design of advanced aerogel structures for oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis”. SusMat, 2023. • Naomi Levy, Lior Elbaz. “Design of PGMfree ORR Catalysts: From Molecular to the State of the Art”. Electrocatalysis for Membrane Fuel Cells: Methods, Modeling and Applications, 2023. • Yan Yurko, Lior Elbaz. “Direct Quinone Fuel Cells”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023. • Oran Lori, Alisa Kozhushner, Hilah C Honig, Lior Elbaz. “Enhanced oxygen reduction and fuel cell performance and durability of ultra-low loading Ptsupported high surface area titanium nitro-carbide”. Journal of Power Sources, 2023. • Alisa Kozhushner, Qing Li, Lior Elbaz. “Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Supports with Enhanced Corrosion Resistance in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells”. Energies, 2023. • Lior Elbaz, Minhua Shao, Jianglan Shui, Carlo Santoro. “Introduction to the themed issue on frontiers of hydrogen energy and fuel cells”. Industrial Chemistry & Materials, 2023. • Mohsin Muhyuddin, Ariel Friedman, Federico Poli, Elisabetta Petri, Hilah Honig, Francesco Basile, Andrea Fasolini, Roberto Lorenzi, Enrico Berretti, Marco Bellini, Alessandro Lavacchi, Lior Elbaz, Carlo Santoro, Francesca Soavi. “Ligninderived bimetallic platinum group metal-free oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts for acid and alkaline fuel cells”. Journal of Power Sources, 2023. • Leigh Peles-Strahl, Hilah C Honig, Yeela Persky, David A Cullen, Adi Dahan, Lior Elbaz. “Modular Iron–Bipyridine-Based Conjugated Aerogels as Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction”. ACS Catalysis, 2023. • Mohsin Muhyuddin, Giorgio Tseberlidis, Maurizio Acciarri, Oran Lori, Massimiliano D’Arienzo, Massimiliano Cavallini, Plamen Atanassov, Lior Elbaz, Alessandro Lavacchi, Carlo Santoro. “Molybdenum disulfide as hydrogen evolution catalyst: From atomistic to materials structure and electrocatalytic performance”. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023. • Łukasz Kielesiński, Francesco F Summa, Jeanet Conradie, Hilah C Honig, Ariel Friedman, Gugliemo Monaco, Lior Elbaz, Abhik Ghosh, Daniel T Gryko. “Nonaromatic naphthocorroles”. Chemical Communications, 2023. • Shuxia Liu, Tanyuan Wang, Lior Elbaz, Qing Li. “Recent progress in C–N coupling for electrochemical CO2 reduction with inorganic nitrogenous species in aqueous solution”. Materials Reports: Energy, 2023. • Ariel Friedman, Rifael Z Snitkoff-Sol, Hilah C Honig, Lior Elbaz. “Simplified FTacV model to quantify the electrochemically active site density in PGM-free ORR catalysts”. Electrochimica Acta, 2023. • Carlo Santoro, Alessandro Lavacchi, Piercarlo Mustarelli, Vito Di Noto, Lior Elbaz, Dario Dekel, Frederic Jaouen. “What is Next in Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers? Bottlenecks, Benefits, and Future”. ChemSusChem, 2022. • Noam Zion, Leigh Peles-Strahl, Ariel Friedman, David A Cullen, Lior Elbaz. “Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction Reaction in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell with a Covalent Framework of Iron Phthalocyanine Aerogel”. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2022. • Rifael Z Snitkoff-Sol, Ariel Friedman, Hilah C Honig, Yan Yurko, Alisa Kozhushner, Michael J Zachman, Piotr Zelenay, Alan M Bond, Lior Elbaz. “Quantifying the electrochemical active site density of precious metal-free catalysts in situ in fuel cells”. Nature Catalysis, 2022. • Rifael Z Snitkoff-Sol, Lior Elbaz. “Assessing and measuring the active site density of PGM-free ORR catalysts”. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 2022. • Wenjamin Moschkowitsch, Oran Lori, Lior Elbaz”. Recent Progress and Viability of PGM-Free Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction”. ACS Catalysis, 2022.
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