Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Room-temperature pyro-catalytic hydrogen generation of 2D few-layer black phosphorene under cold-hot alternation

  • Huilin You,
  • Yanmin Jia,
  • Zheng Wu,
  • Feifei Wang,
  • Haitao Huang,
  • Yu Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05343-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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2D elemental materials, with their atomic-scale dimensions, present exciting opportunities for energy conversion applications. Here, the authors use few-layer black phosphorene to perform pyro-catalysis, in which thermal cycling the material induces hydrogen gas production and dye degradation.