@article{Zhang2016, 
author = {Bing Zhang and Hong-Hui Wang and Hui Su and Li-Bing Lv and Tian-Jian Zhao and Jie-Min Ge and Xiao Wei and Kai-Xue Wang and Xin-Hao Li and Jie-Sheng Chen},
title = {Nitrogen-doped graphene microtubes with opened inner voids: Highly efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction},
year = {2016},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {9},
number = {9},
pages = {2606-2615},
keywords = {graphene, water splitting, hydrogen evolution reaction, microtubes, green chemistry},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-016-1147-1},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-016-1147-1},
abstract = {A facile method was developed to fabricate nitrogen-doped graphene microtubes (N-GMT) with ultra-thin walls of 1–4 nm and large inner voids of 1–2 μm. The successful introduction of nitrogen dopants afforded N-GMT more active sites for significantly enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity, achieving a current density of 10 mA·cm–2 at overpotentials of 0.464 and 0.426 V vs. RHE in 0.1 and 6 M KOH solution, respectively. This HER performance surpassed that of the best metal-free catalyst reported in basic solution, further illustrating the great potential of N-GMT as an efficient HER catalyst for real applications in water splitting and chlor-alkali processes.}
}