碳化钼催化剂的制备及应用研究进展

Recently, the researches on clean energy have received increasing attention. However, a catalyst is usually needed to speed up the reaction rate in the process of energy conversion. Molybdenum carbide has attracted hot discussions as a catalyst in the past ten years, because of its high electrical conductivity, cheap, good mechanical stability, and its similar electronic structure to Pt-group metals. In this paper, the recent advances in the preparation of molybdenum carbide and its applications including water splitting, oxygen reduction reaction and methanol oxidation reaction were summarized. The current problems of molybdenum carbide nanomaterials were also discussed during the application processes. Finally, the development prospect of molybdenum carbide was forecasted.