Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Nickel–vanadium monolayer double hydroxide for efficient electrochemical water oxidation

  • Ke Fan,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Yongfei Ji,
  • Hui Huang,
  • Per Martin Claesson,
  • Quentin Daniel,
  • Bertrand Philippe,
  • Håkan Rensmo,
  • Fusheng Li,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Licheng Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11981
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Water oxidation is a key component of water splitting, but more effective catalysts for the process are still required. Here the authors synthesize a monolayer nickel-vanadium layered double hydroxide material showing high activity for water oxidation owing to enhanced conductivity and abundant active sites.