Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Manipulation on active electronic states of metastable phase β-NiMoO4 for large current density hydrogen evolution

  • Zengyao Wang,
  • Jiyi Chen,
  • Erhong Song,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Juncai Dong,
  • Xiang Zhang,
  • Pulickel M. Ajayan,
  • Wei Yao,
  • Chenfeng Wang,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Jianfeng Shen,
  • Mingxin Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26256-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Non-noble transition metal oxides are common yet typically poor hydrogen evolution catalysts due to scarce active electronic states. This work provides a route for achieving hydrogen evolution at high current densities by stabilizing a metastable NiMoO4 phase with abundant active electronic states.