Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Materializing efficient methanol oxidation via electron delocalization in nickel hydroxide nanoribbon

  • Xiaopeng Wang,
  • Shibo Xi,
  • Wee Siang Vincent Lee,
  • Pengru Huang,
  • Peng Cui,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Weichang Hao,
  • Xinsheng Zhao,
  • Zhenbo Wang,
  • Haijun Wu,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Caozheng Diao,
  • Armando Borgna,
  • Yonghua Du,
  • Zhi Gen Yu,
  • Stephen Pennycook,
  • Junmin Xue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18459-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Development of suitable methanol oxidation reaction catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells is challenging due to sluggish kinetics. Herein, authors show that four-coordinate nickel atoms form charge-transfer orbitals near the Fermi energy level, leading to remarkable methanol oxidation activity.