Self-powered H2 production with bifunctional hydrazine as sole consumable

Xijun Liu; Jia He; Shunzheng Zhao; Yunpeng Liu; Zhe Zhao; Jun Luo; Guangzhi Hu; Xiaoming Sun; Yi Ding

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06815-9

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Self-powered H2 production with bifunctional hydrazine as sole consumable

Xijun Liu,
Jia He,
Shunzheng Zhao,
Yunpeng Liu,
Zhe Zhao,
Jun Luo,
Guangzhi Hu,
Xiaoming Sun,
Yi Ding

Affiliations

Xijun Liu: Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials, Tianjin University of Technology
Jia He: Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials, Tianjin University of Technology
Shunzheng Zhao: Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Yunpeng Liu: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhe Zhao: Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials, Tianjin University of Technology
Jun Luo: Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials, Tianjin University of Technology
Guangzhi Hu: Key Lab for Chemistry of Plant Resources in Arid Regions, State Key Lab for Basis of Xinjiang Indigenous Medicinal Plants Resource Utilization, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoming Sun: State Key Lab of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Yi Ding: Center for Electron Microscopy and Tianjin Key Lab of Advanced Functional Porous Materials, Institute for New Energy Materials & Low-Carbon Technologies, School of Materials, Tianjin University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06815-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While water electrolysis provides an attractive means to produce high-energy hydrogen (H2), the process imposes significant material overpotential barriers. Here, authors employ the more-facile hydrazine splitting reaction, coupled to a hydrazine fuel cell, to perform self-powered H2 evolution.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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