Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Precise tuning in platinum-nickel/nickel sulfide interface nanowires for synergistic hydrogen evolution catalysis

  • Pengtang Wang,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Sheng Wan,
  • Shaojun Guo,
  • Gang Lu,
  • Jianlin Yao,
  • Xiaoqing Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14580
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Multicomponent, nanoscale heterostructures may exhibit notable catalytic properties imparted by the various building blocks. Here, the authors fabricate metal/sulfide heterostructures via direct sulfurization of segregated platinum-nickel nanowires, and assess their hydrogen evolution performance.