Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Dual properties of a hydrogen oxidation Ni-catalyst entrapped within a polymer promote self-defense against oxygen

  • Alaa A. Oughli,
  • Adrian Ruff,
  • Nilusha Priyadarshani Boralugodage,
  • Patricia Rodríguez-Maciá,
  • Nicolas Plumeré,
  • Wolfgang Lubitz,
  • Wendy J. Shaw,
  • Wolfgang Schuhmann,
  • Olaf Rüdiger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03011-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Bio-inspired Ni-based molecular catalysts are efficient for H2 oxidation, but are suffering from the poor stability in the presence of O2. Here, the authors develop a strategy to boost greatly their stability by dispersing them in a hydrophobic and redox-silent polymer matrix.