Anomalous Enhancement of the Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in AuPt Nanoclusters
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| author | Kang, Jiahui Kloppenburg, Jan Sheng, Jiali Xu, Zhenyu Meinander, Kristoffer Jiang, Hua Lv, Zhong-Peng Kauppinen, Esko I. Zhang, Qiang Chen, Xi Ikkala, Olli Caro, Miguel A. Peng, Bo |
| author_facet | Kang, Jiahui Kloppenburg, Jan Sheng, Jiali Xu, Zhenyu Meinander, Kristoffer Jiang, Hua Lv, Zhong-Peng Kauppinen, Esko I. Zhang, Qiang Chen, Xi Ikkala, Olli Caro, Miguel A. Peng, Bo |
| contents | Energy- and resource-efficient electrocatalytic water splitting is of paramount importance to enable sustainable hydrogen production. The best bulk catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), i.e., platinum, is one of the scarcest elements on Earth. The use of raw material for HER can be dramatically reduced by utilizing nanoclusters. In addition, nanoalloying can further improve the performance of these nanoclusters. In this paper, we present results for HER on nanometer-sized ligand-free AuPt nanoclusters grafted on carbon nanotubes. These results demonstrate excellent monodispersity and a significant reduction of the overpotential for the electrocatalytic HER. We utilize atomistic machine learning techniques to elucidate the atomic-scale origin of the synergistic effect between Pt and Au. We show that the presence of surface Au atoms, known to be poor HER catalysts, in a Pt(core)/AuPt(shell) nanocluster structure, drives an anomalous enhancement of the inherently high catalytic activity of Pt atoms. |
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| spellingShingle | Anomalous Enhancement of the Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in AuPt Nanoclusters Kang, Jiahui Kloppenburg, Jan Sheng, Jiali Xu, Zhenyu Meinander, Kristoffer Jiang, Hua Lv, Zhong-Peng Kauppinen, Esko I. Zhang, Qiang Chen, Xi Ikkala, Olli Caro, Miguel A. Peng, Bo Chemical Physics Energy- and resource-efficient electrocatalytic water splitting is of paramount importance to enable sustainable hydrogen production. The best bulk catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), i.e., platinum, is one of the scarcest elements on Earth. The use of raw material for HER can be dramatically reduced by utilizing nanoclusters. In addition, nanoalloying can further improve the performance of these nanoclusters. In this paper, we present results for HER on nanometer-sized ligand-free AuPt nanoclusters grafted on carbon nanotubes. These results demonstrate excellent monodispersity and a significant reduction of the overpotential for the electrocatalytic HER. We utilize atomistic machine learning techniques to elucidate the atomic-scale origin of the synergistic effect between Pt and Au. We show that the presence of surface Au atoms, known to be poor HER catalysts, in a Pt(core)/AuPt(shell) nanocluster structure, drives an anomalous enhancement of the inherently high catalytic activity of Pt atoms. |
| title | Anomalous Enhancement of the Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in AuPt Nanoclusters |
| topic | Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08580 |