Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Accelerating water dissociation kinetics by isolating cobalt atoms into ruthenium lattice

  • Junjie Mao,
  • Chun-Ting He,
  • Jiajing Pei,
  • Wenxing Chen,
  • Dongsheng He,
  • Yiqing He,
  • Zhongbin Zhuang,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Qing Peng,
  • Dingsheng Wang,
  • Yadong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07288-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Water splitting provides an appealing route to generating carbon-neutral fuel, however the scarcity and cost of platinum, often used as a catalyst, necessitates a search for alternatives. Here, authors show cobalt atoms in ruthenium nanosheets to afford excellent hydrogen production activities.