Surface-Engineered PtNi-O Nanostructure with Record-High Performance for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

Hydrogen holds the potential of replacing nonrenewable fossil fuel. Improving the efficiency of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is critical for environmental friendly hydrogen generation through electrochemical or photoelectrochemical water splitting. Here we report the surface-engineered PtNi-O nanoparticles with enriched NiO/PtNi interface on surface. Notably, PtNi-O/C showed a mass activity of 7.23 mA/μg at an overpotential of 70 mV, which is 7.9 times higher compared to that of the commercial Pt/C, representing the highest reported mass activity for HER in alkaline conditions. The HER overpotential can be lowered to 39.8 mV at 10 mA/cm2 when platinum loading was only 5.1 μgpt/cm2, showing exceptional HER efficiency. Meanwhile, the prepared PtNi-O/C nanostructures demonstrated significantly improved stability as well as high current performance which are well over those of the commercial Pt/C and demonstrated capability of scaled hydrogen generation.

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