Highly efficient and durable PtCo alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanofibers for electrochemical hydrogen generation

• DOI: 10.1039/c5cc08097e
• Publication Date: 2015-11-11T09:02:44Z
• Authors: TingTing Yang; Han Zhu; Meng Wan; Liang Dong; Ming Zhang; MingLiang Du
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

PtCo/CNFs exhibit extraordinary catalytic activity and durability for hydrogen evolution reaction, even approaching the performance of the commercial Pt/C catalyst, which can be attributed to the alloy structure and the encapsulation of PtCo alloy nanoparticles in CNFs.