The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) critical for electrochemical energy conversion systems suffers from sluggish kinetics and high overpotentials that hinder the efficiency of these technologies. Herein, a curvature-dominated microenvironment modulation strategy is demonstrated to enhance ORR performance via engineering a helical hollow carbon nanotube with embedded sub-nanometer tungsten nitride (W2N) clusters. This architecture yields optimized electrostatic field distributions and reduced d-band center of W2N, thereby promoting the enrichment of OH−, the adsorption of oxygen, and the desorption of oxygen intermediates (
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Nano Research 2026, 19(1): 94908197
Published: 22 December 2025
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