Encased Copper Boosts the Electrocatalytic Activity of N‑Doped Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Evolution

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 9; no. 42; pp. 36857 - 36864
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yun, Ma, Yuling, Chen, Yu-Yun, Zhao, Lu, Huang, Lin-Bo, Luo, Hao, Jiang, Wen-Jie, Zhang, Xing, Niu, Shuai, Gao, Daojiang, Bi, Jian, Fan, Guangyin, Hu, Jin-Song
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 25.10.2017
• Subjects: active sites; carbon; carbon nanotubes; catalysts; cobalt; copper; durability; electrodes; electrolytes; foams; hydrogen production; iron; mass transfer; nanoparticles; nickel; nitrogen; temperature; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; HER; electrocatalysis; nanostructures; hydrogen production; electronic modulation

Nitrogen (N)-doped carbons combined with transition-metal nanoparticles are attractive as alternatives to the state-of-the-art precious metal catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we demonstrate a strategy for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) Cu-encased N-doped carbon nanotube a...