Polymorphic cobalt diselenide as extremely stable electrocatalyst in acidic media via a phase-mixing strategy

Noble-metal-free catalysts often show stability issues in acidic media due to structural degradation. Here authors show that phase-mixed engineering of cobalt diselenide electrocatalysts can enable greater covalency of Co-Se bonds and improve robustness for catalyzing hydrogen evolution in acid.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiao-Long Zhang, Shao-Jin Hu, Ya-Rong Zheng, Rui Wu, Fei-Yue Gao, Peng-Peng Yang, Zhuang-Zhuang Niu, Chao Gu, Xingxing Yu, Xu-Sheng Zheng, Cheng Ma, Xiao Zheng, Jun-Fa Zhu, Min-Rui Gao, Shu-Hong Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12992-y