journal article·2019-04Open access

Water Splitting: Boosting Water Dissociation Kinetics on Pt–Ni Nanowires by N‐Induced Orbital Tuning (Adv. Mater. 16/2019)

Yufang Xie, Jinyan Cai, Yishang Wu, Yipeng Zang, Xusheng Zheng, Jian Ye, Peixin Cui, Shuwen Niu, Yun Liu, Junfa Zhu, Xiaojing Liu, Gongming Wang, Yitai Qian

Advanced Materials· Volume 31· Issue 16

Abstract

Pt–Ni(N) nanowires are presented by Xiaojing Liu, Gongming Wang, and co-workers in article number 1807780. The introduced nitrogen can enable the Ni sites to create empty dz2 orbitals with superior orientation for water adsorption and dissociation, and thus resolve the kinetic issue of Pt–Ni nanowires for alkaline hydrogen evolution.
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Affiliations

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale Department of Chemistry University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230026 P. R. China

National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui 230029 P. R. China

Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation Institute of Soil Science The Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 P. R. China

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