Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Ultrafine nanoporous intermetallic catalysts by high-temperature liquid metal dealloying for electrochemical hydrogen production

  • Ruirui Song,
  • Jiuhui Han,
  • Masayuki Okugawa,
  • Rodion Belosludov,
  • Takeshi Wada,
  • Jing Jiang,
  • Daixiu Wei,
  • Akira Kudo,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Mingwei Chen,
  • Hidemi Kato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32768-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Nanoscale intermetallic compounds are promising catalysts but the synthesis remains a challenge. The authors develop a dealloying technique to fabricate nanoporous intermetallic electrocatalysts with fine structures for efficient hydrogen production.