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Catalytic hydrogen evolution reaction on “metal-free” graphene: key role of metallic impurities

Published:2019 Issue:23 Volume:11 Page:11083-11085
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Wang Lu¹²³⁴⁵,Sofer Zdeněk⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Pumera Martin⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry Research Group

2. Solar Fuels Cluster

3. Departments of Chemistry

4. University of Toronto

5. Toronto

6. Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots

7. Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry

8. University of Chemistry and Technology

9. Praha 6 166 28

10. Czech Republic

Abstract

Molecular hydrogen is widely considered as a potential carbon-free and renewable energy carrier for a sustainable energy strategy. Carbon nanotubes are widely promoted as metal-free catalysts – however, we show that the metallic impurities drive hydrogen production.

Funder

Grantová Agentura České Republiky

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/NR/C9NR03557E

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