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Dual roles of sub-nanometer NiO in alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction: breaking the Volmer limitation and optimizing d-orbital electronic configuration

Fei Guo, Zeyi Zhang, Runzhe Chen, Yangyang Tan, Wei Wu, Zichen Wang, Tang Zeng, Wangbin Zhu, Caoxin Lin, Niancai Cheng

Materials Horizons · 2023 · 33 citations · 53 references

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In this work, NiO nanoclusters were simulated by DFT for reducing the free energy of water dissociation and optimizing the Pt d-orbital electronic configuration, accelerating the alkaline HER kinetics.

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