Confining sub-nanometer Pt clusters in hollow mesoporous carbon spheres for boosting hydrogen evolution activity

• Main Authors: Wan, Xian-Kai, Wu, Hao Bin, Guan, Bu Yuan, Luan, Deyan, Lou, David Xiong Wen
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Electrocatalysis; Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138584
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Electrochemical water splitting is considered as a promising approach to produce clean and sustainable hydrogen fuel. As a new class of nanomaterials with high ratio of surface atoms and tunable composition and electronic structure, metal clusters are promising candidates as catalysts. Here, a new s...