@article{Chen2020, 
author = {Yang Chen and Yuan Rao and Rongzhi Wang and Yanan Yu and Qiulin Li and Shujuan Bao and Maowen Xu and Qin Yue and Yanning Zhang and Yijin Kang},
title = {Interfacial engineering of Ni/V2O3 for hydrogen evolution reaction},
year = {2020},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {13},
number = {9},
pages = {2407-2412},
keywords = {interface, electrocatalysis, hydrogen evolution reaction, vanadium oxide, hierarchical materials},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-020-2865-y},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-020-2865-y},
abstract = {Electrocatalytic water splitting offers a sustainable route for hydrogen production, enabling the clean and renewable alternative energy system of hydrogen economy. The scarcity and high-cost of platinum-group-metal (PGM) materials urge the exploration of high-performance non-PGM electrocatalysts. Herein, a unique hierarchical structure of Ni/V2O3 with extraordinary electrocatalytic performance (e.g., overpotentials as low as 22 mV at 20 mA·cm-2 and 94 mV at 100 mA·cm-2) toward hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline electrolyte (1 M KOH) is reported. The investigation on the hierarchical Ni/V2O3 with a bimodal size-distribution also offers insight of interfacial engineering that only proper Ni/V2O3 interface can effectively improve H2O adsorption, H2O dissociation as well as H adsorption, for an efficient hydrogen production.}
}