Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Single platinum atoms embedded in nanoporous cobalt selenide as electrocatalyst for accelerating hydrogen evolution reaction

  • Kang Jiang,
  • Boyang Liu,
  • Min Luo,
  • Shoucong Ning,
  • Ming Peng,
  • Yang Zhao,
  • Ying-Rui Lu,
  • Ting-Shan Chan,
  • Frank M. F. de Groot,
  • Yongwen Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09765-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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While water splitting chemistry provides a renewable means to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen fuel, the most efficient catalysts require rare and expensive platinum. Here, authors prepare single-atom platinum on cobalt selenide as a high-performance hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst.