Nature Communications (May 2019)

Rationally engineered active sites for efficient and durable hydrogen generation

  • Yurui Xue,
  • Lan Hui,
  • Huidi Yu,
  • Yuxin Liu,
  • Yan Fang,
  • Bolong Huang,
  • Yingjie Zhao,
  • Zhibo Li,
  • Yuliang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10230-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While hydrogen as a renewable fuel can be produced from water, there is a scarcity of metal-free materials that serve as effective electrocatalysts. Here, authors functionalize carbon fiber cloth with amides to improve hydrogen evolution activities in both acid and alkaline water.