Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Solvent-free microwave synthesis of ultra-small Ru-Mo2C@CNT with strong metal-support interaction for industrial hydrogen evolution

  • Xueke Wu,
  • Zuochao Wang,
  • Dan Zhang,
  • Yingnan Qin,
  • Minghui Wang,
  • Yi Han,
  • Tianrong Zhan,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Shaoxiang Li,
  • Jianping Lai,
  • Lei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24322-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While H2 could be a renewable fuel, the large-scale preparation of cheap, active electrocatalysts for large-scale production remains a challenge. Here, authors use a rapid, solvent-free microwave pyrolysis method to synthesize nanostructured catalysts for large-scale industrial H2 production.