Volcano-type relationship between oxidation states and catalytic activity of single-atom catalysts towards hydrogen evolution

Dong Cao; Haoxiang Xu; Hongliang Li; Chen Feng; Jie Zeng; Daojian Cheng

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33589-y

Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Volcano-type relationship between oxidation states and catalytic activity of single-atom catalysts towards hydrogen evolution

Dong Cao,
Haoxiang Xu,
Hongliang Li,
Chen Feng,
Jie Zeng,
Daojian Cheng

Affiliations

Dong Cao: State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Haoxiang Xu: State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Hongliang Li: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Chen Feng: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Jie Zeng: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Daojian Cheng: State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33589-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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While single atom catalysis offers high efficiency for materials use, different possible atomic configurations yield differing activities. Here, authors modulate single-atom Os coordinations to show a volcano relationship between oxidation state and H2 evolution electrocatalytic activities.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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