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ArticleNature communications2025

Hydrocarbothermal flow synthesis of carbon-supported small and dense high-entropy alloy nanoparticles as electrocatalysts.

Guanchao He, Xinyu Zhang, Jianbin Liu, Jinyu Chong, Gonglan Ye, Huilong Fei

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  7. Bifunctional Electrocatalysts with High-Entropy Alloys: Bridging Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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Guanchao He *College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-7711
Xinyu Zhang *College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
Jianbin LiuCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
Jinyu ChongCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
Gonglan YeCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2086-4143
Huilong FeiCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China. hlfei@hnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4216-5810

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22479044Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation) 2021JC0006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Supported small and dense high-entropy-alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) are promising functional materials for many applications. However, their synthesis remains a grand challenge because the extreme heating typically required to raise the entropic contribution to the formation of a solid solution unavoidably causes the sintering of HEA-NPs. Herein, we present a one-step continuous-flow spray pyrolysis strategy to synthesize multicomponent (from quinary to denary) HEA-NPs with an average size of <2 nanometers and metal loadings of ~30 wt% uniformly dispersed on various carbon substrates, including graphene and carbon black. In addition, this flow-type synthesis is featured with notable advantages in facile gram scalability and reproducible production when compared with the existing methods. We identify a hydrocarbothermal synthesis mechanism that in situ generates H

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