2020 Roadmap on electrocatalysts for green catalytic processes

Some serious challenges in energy and environment need us to find out the way that can solve them in sustainable process. There are many sustainable electrocatalytic processes which might provide the answers for above mentioned challenges, such as oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) and nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR). These reactions can enhance the value-added to produce the hydrogen energy through water splitting, or transfer useless CO2 and N2 into fuels and NH3. These electrocatalytic reactions can be driven by high-performance catalysts. Therefore, it is one of important electrocatalytic fields to explore novel electrocatalysts. In this content, we need to discuss a varies of electrocatalysts for sustainable processes systematically, and further give insights on the status and challenges. This gives us the opportunity to organize the 2020 Roadmap on electrocatalysts for green catalytic processes and provide some suggestions for future researchers.