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Ali Alinezhad1, Tania M Benedetti, Jiaxin Lian
1School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. r.tilley@unsw.edu.au.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 18, 2021
Abstract:
Pt islands with different sizes were grown on amorphous Ni nanoparticles, allowing the tuning of the Pt-Ni interface without changing the hydrogen binding energy of the Pt sites. As a result, the HER activity of the electrocatalysts increases by decreasing the size of the Pt islands due to the greater surface area of the Pt-Ni interfaces.
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