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Improving hydrogen evolution reaction efficiency through lattice tuning

Zipeng Zhao1,§, Haotian Liu1,§, Wenpei Gao2,3, Praveen Kolla4, Wang Xue5, Zeyan Liu1, Jinghua Guo6,7, Sanjeev Mukerjee4, Xiaoqing Pan2,8, Qingying Jia4, Xiangfeng Duan5,9, Yu Huang1,9( )
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

§ Zipeng Zhao and Haotian Liu contributed equally to this work.

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We tuned the lattice parameter of the Pt alloy core to promote the hydrogen evolution catalytic activity of the nickel oxide shell/Pt alloy core catalyst. A relationship between mass activity versus lattice parameter was found for Pt-based materials catalyzed hydrogen evolution reactions.

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The intermittent nature of renewable energy sources sets a requirement for efficient energy storage to mitigate the conflict between energy supply and demand. Hydrogen is a promising choice for energy storage due to its high energy density. However, the conversion of electrical energy to chemical energy stored in hydrogen through water electrolysis suffers from low efficiency, and the electricity cost dominates the total cost of hydrogen production. Here, we report the study of improving the hydrogen evolution reaction activity of Pt-based catalysts by building a nanoscale surface NiO and Pt interface, further optimizing the performance via tuning the lattice parameter of the core of nanoparticles, which can be achieved by varying the dealloying annealing time. The optimized PtCuNi-O/C and PtNi-O/C catalysts are demonstrated to be one of the best catalysts, with a mass activity (MA) of 9.1 and 8.7 mA/µgPt, which is 9.9-fold and 9.5-fold of that of Pt/C, respectively.

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lattice tuningPt-based catalysthydrogen evolution reactionelectrocatalysis

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 7,
July 2024
Pages 5907-5913
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-024-6579-4
Cite this article:
Zhao Z, Liu H, Gao W, et al. Improving hydrogen evolution reaction efficiency through lattice tuning. Nano Research, 2024, 17(7): 5907-5913. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6579-4
Topics:
Electrocatalysis Hydrogen evolution reaction

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Received: 08 January 2024
Revised: 12 February 2024
Accepted: 16 February 2024
Published: 18 April 2024
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