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ArticleNature communications2026

Ligand engineering tailors hydrophobic microenvironments for efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of fatty alcohol.

Ruiqi Du, Zemao Chen, Boyan Zhang, Shiyan Wang, Kaiqi Nie, Binhang Yan, Jun Bao, Yi Cheng

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Ruiqi Du *Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
Zemao Chen *Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
Boyan Zhang *National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China.
Shiyan WangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
Kaiqi NieDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
Binhang YanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-8022
Jun BaoNational Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China. baoj@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-8999
Yi ChengDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China. yicheng@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0711-1884

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 21991104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intrinsically low solubility of fatty alcohols in aqueous electrolytes imposes critical mass transport limitations for electrocatalytic oxidation. Conventional anodic electrocatalysts typically suffer from poor activity along with severe oxygen evolution reaction due to their hydrophilicity. Here, we present a ligand engineering strategy utilizing nickel-based metal-organic frameworks (Ni-MOFs) to construct hydrophobic microenvironments. Precise modulation of the aromatic structures of organic ligands promotes local enrichment of fatty alcohols and enhances structural robustness through π-π stacking interactions. Consequently, the optimized Ni-MOF exhibits enhanced activity for octanol oxidation compared to Ni(OH)

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