甲酸作为安全无毒、来源广泛且价廉易得的可再生能源载体，其催化制氢有望在未来氢能储运中发挥重要作用。针对当前甲酸体系实际有效储氢量偏低、大多依赖传统贵金属催化剂且易受痕量副产CO毒化等问题，通过低成本、高性能非贵金属催化剂的设计，实现高浓度甲酸为氢源的制氢，特别是针对无水甲酸，实现其有效制氢，对于实现甲酸作为储氢介质的高效利用及发展和完善经济、高效的储运氢新技术至关重要。本项目拟着眼以甲酸分解制氢高效耐用非贵金属氮碳基催化剂的创制与科学制备，探究不同非贵金属及活性中心在甲酸制氢中作用本质和协同机制；借助表面科学揭示金属-载体表界面的微观结构及电子特性，结合动态谱学表征与量化计算，探究活性组分元素、结构、反应条件等对活性及选择性的精细调控和优化，重点建立无水甲酸选择制氢的可行方案；拓展并完善相关理念，为发展相应的以非贵金属氮碳基催化剂为核心的、高效制氢供氢体系提供基础数据、模型和理论指导。

Formic acid (FA), as a safe, non-toxic, widely sourced and cheap renewable energy carrier, is expected to play an important role in hydrogen energy storage and transportation in the future. Aiming to address the problems of low effective hydrogen storage capacity on using FA as a viable means to store energy, mostly relying on traditional noble metal catalysts and being easily poisoned by trace CO, rational design of low cost and high performance non-noble metal nitrogen-doped carbon-based catalysts capable of making effective use of high concentration FA, especially anhydrous FA, as a practical source of hydrogen, is critically important for advancing FA-based solutions for hydrogen storage and transportation. This project aims at the rational design and controllable preparation of highly efficient and durable non-noble metal catalysts for H2 production from FA, exploring the origin and synergistic roles of different non-noble metals and active centers in H2 production by FA, revealing the micro-structure and electronic characteristics of the metal-carrier surface interface by means of surface science, and exploring the elements, structures and reactions of active components for the overall performance optimization by means of combined dynamic spectroscopic characterization and computational modeling studies, with a special focus on the establishment of feasible scheme for selective H2 production from anhydrous FA; extending and consolidating the relevant concepts, with the goal to provide basic data, models and fundamental guidance for the development of corresponding high-efficiency hydrogen production system based on non-noble metal N-doped carbon-based catalysts.