Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Making the hydrogen evolution reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysers even faster

  • Jakub Tymoczko,
  • Federico Calle-Vallejo,
  • Wolfgang Schuhmann,
  • Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10990
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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There is substantial research into minimizing platinum use in polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers. Here, the authors report that the hydrogen evolution activity of platinum(111) electrodes can be significantly enhanced by monolayer amounts of copper, which weaken the binding of hydrogen intermediates.