Activated carbon nanotubes: a highly-active metal-free electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction
- 1 July 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 50 (66), 9340-9342
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cc02713b
Abstract
In this communication, for the first time, we report on the development and utilization of activated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a highly-active metal-free electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with good durability in acidic electrolytes. This catalyst shows an onset overpotential and an exchange current density of 100 mV and 16.0 × 10−3 mA cm−2, respectively. The possible catalytic mechanism for the HER is also proposed.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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