Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Unveiling reductant chemistry in fabricating noble metal aerogels for superior oxygen evolution and ethanol oxidation

  • Ran Du,
  • Jinying Wang,
  • Ying Wang,
  • René Hübner,
  • Xuelin Fan,
  • Irena Senkovska,
  • Yue Hu,
  • Stefan Kaskel,
  • Alexander Eychmüller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15391-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Non-efficient gelation methods for noble metal particles limit the development of the corresponding gel materials. Here the authors describe the role of reductants, unlocking ligand chemistry, and largely expanding the composition space of noble metal aerogels for high-performance electrocatalysis.