Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Atomically dispersed hybrid nickel-iridium sites for photoelectrocatalysis

  • Chunhua Cui,
  • Marc Heggen,
  • Wolf-Dietrich Zabka,
  • Wei Cui,
  • Jürg Osterwalder,
  • Benjamin Probst,
  • Roger Alberto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01545-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Atomically disperse catalysts can offer promising activity due to the high exposure of active sites. Here, iridium complexes in solution undergo a binding equilibrium with a nickel oxide surface resulting in atomically disperse iridium and high turnover frequencies for oxygen evolution.