Anomalous hydrogen evolution behavior in high-pH environment induced by locally generated hydronium ions

Most of the current understanding on electrocatalysis is obtained on bulk catalysts but has not been fully verified on nanostructured materials. An alternative alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction mechanism is proposed here for nanostructured catalysts.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xuesi Wang, Chaochen Xu, Mietek Jaroniec, Yao Zheng, Shi-Zhang Qiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12773-7