Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Atomic layer deposited Pt-Ru dual-metal dimers and identifying their active sites for hydrogen evolution reaction

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Rutong Si,
  • Hanshuo Liu,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Keegan Adair,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Jiatang Chen,
  • Zhongxin Song,
  • Junjie Li,
  • Mohammad Norouzi Banis,
  • Ruying Li,
  • Tsun-Kong Sham,
  • Meng Gu,
  • Li-Min Liu,
  • Gianluigi A. Botton,
  • Xueliang Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12887-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Atomically precise control over elemental distributions presents a challenge in the preparation of catalytic nanomaterials. Here the authors report Pt-Ru bimetallic dimer structures through atomic layer deposition process and identify the roles of Pt and Ru in hydrogen evolution reaction.