Nature Communications (May 2022)

Unraveling the electronegativity-dominated intermediate adsorption on high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts

  • Jiace Hao,
  • Zechao Zhuang,
  • Kecheng Cao,
  • Guohua Gao,
  • Chan Wang,
  • Feili Lai,
  • Shuanglong Lu,
  • Piming Ma,
  • Weifu Dong,
  • Tianxi Liu,
  • Mingliang Du,
  • Han Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30379-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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High-entropy alloy catalysts are an emerging class of materials and identification of catalytically active sites is critical. Here, we provide evidence that metal site electronegativity differences stabilize bound *OH and *H intermediates.