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Tingting Chao1, Xuan Luo2, Wenxing Chen3
1Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN) and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
Abstract:
Designing highly active catalysts at an atomic scale is required to drive the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Copper-platinum (Cu-Pt) dual sites were alloyed with palladium nanorings (Pd NRs) containing 1.5 atom % Pt, using atomically dispersed Cu on ultrathin Pd NRs as seeds. The ultrafine structure of atomically dispersed Cu-Pt dual sites was confirmed with X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements. The Pd/Cu-Pt NRs exhibit excellent HER properties in acidic solution with an overpotential of only 22.8 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and a high mass current density of 3002 A g-1(Pd+Pt) at a -0.05 V potential.
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