Nature Communications (Oct 2019)
Atomic layer deposited Pt-Ru dual-metal dimers and identifying their active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction
- Lei Zhang,
- Rutong Si,
- Hanshuo Liu,
- Ning Chen,
- Qi Wang,
- Keegan Adair,
- Zhiqiang Wang,
- Jiatang Chen,
- Zhongxin Song,
- Junjie Li,
- Mohammad Norouzi Banis,
- Ruying Li,
- Tsun-Kong Sham,
- Meng Gu,
- Li-Min Liu,
- Gianluigi A. Botton,
- Xueliang Sun
Affiliations
- Lei Zhang
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Rutong Si
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center
- Hanshuo Liu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
- Ning Chen
- Canadian Light Source Inc
- Qi Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Keegan Adair
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Zhiqiang Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
- Jiatang Chen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
- Zhongxin Song
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Junjie Li
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Mohammad Norouzi Banis
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Ruying Li
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- Tsun-Kong Sham
- Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
- Meng Gu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Li-Min Liu
- School of Physics, Beihang University
- Gianluigi A. Botton
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
- Xueliang Sun
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12887-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Atomically precise control over elemental distributions presents a challenge in the preparation of catalytic nanomaterials. Here the authors report Pt-Ru bimetallic dimer structures through atomic layer deposition process and identify the roles of Pt and Ru in hydrogen evolution reaction.