Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Atomically dispersed nickel–nitrogen–sulfur species anchored on porous carbon nanosheets for efficient water oxidation

  • Yang Hou,
  • Ming Qiu,
  • Min Gyu Kim,
  • Pan Liu,
  • Gyutae Nam,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Zhuang,
  • Bin Yang,
  • Jaephil Cho,
  • Mingwei Chen,
  • Chris Yuan,
  • Lecheng Lei,
  • Xinliang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09394-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Water oxidation is considered the bottleneck reaction for light-driven water splitting due to the sluggish kinetics and poor stability. Here, authors show metal- and heteroatom-doped carbons as effective catalysts for both electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting.