Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction

  • Kaian Sun,
  • Xueyan Wu,
  • Zewen Zhuang,
  • Leyu Liu,
  • Jinjie Fang,
  • Lingyou Zeng,
  • Junguo Ma,
  • Shoujie Liu,
  • Jiazhan Li,
  • Ruoyun Dai,
  • Xin Tan,
  • Ke Yu,
  • Di Liu,
  • Weng-Chon Cheong,
  • Aijian Huang,
  • Yunqi Liu,
  • Yuan Pan,
  • Hai Xiao,
  • Chen Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33984-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Understanding the slow kinetics of hydrogen evolution reaction in neutral media is of fundamental importance for the rational design of high-performance electrocatalysts for hydrogen energy. Here, by studying Ru single atom and RuSe x cluster, the authors report how the rate of hydrogen evolution reaction activity in neutral media is governed by interfacial water.