Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

High-performance bifunctional porous non-noble metal phosphide catalyst for overall water splitting

  • Fang Yu,
  • Haiqing Zhou,
  • Yufeng Huang,
  • Jingying Sun,
  • Fan Qin,
  • Jiming Bao,
  • William A. Goddard,
  • Shuo Chen,
  • Zhifeng Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04746-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Water electrolysis provides a carbon-neutral means to generate hydrogen fuel from water, but the process typically requires expensive, rare metal catalysts. Here, the authors prepare hydrogen- and oxygen-evolving electrocatalysts from earth-abundant elements that outperform noble-metal counterparts.