Platinum single-atom and cluster catalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cheng, Niancai ^a   Stambula, Samantha ^b   Wang, Da ^c   Banis, Mohammad Norouzi ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   Riese, Adam ^a   Xiao, Biwei ^a   Li, Ruying ^a   Sham, Tsun Kong ^a   Liu, Li Min ^c   Botton, Gianluigi A ^b,d,e   Sun, Xueliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; NANOSHEET; NITROGEN; PLATINUM;

ABSORPTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; SYNTHESIS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84999098079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13638     Document Type: Article

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