Atomically ordered Rh2P catalysts anchored within hollow mesoporous carbon for efficient hydrogen production

Xuwen Guo; Xin Chen; Yanping Huang; Xiaowen Min; Chuncai Kong; Yawen Tang; Ben Liu

doi:10.1039/d1cc05267e

Atomically ordered Rh₂P catalysts anchored within hollow mesoporous carbon for efficient hydrogen production

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Nov 19;57(92):12345-12348. doi: 10.1039/d1cc05267e.

Authors

Xuwen Guo¹, Xin Chen², Yanping Huang³, Xiaowen Min⁴, Chuncai Kong⁵, Yawen Tang¹, Ben Liu⁴

Affiliations

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
² ME Instruments Inc., Huahan science and Technology Industrial Park, Shenzhen 518118, China.
³ Center of Engineering Experimental Teaching, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China. [email protected].
⁵ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Non-equilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China. [email protected].

PMID: 34747950
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05267e

Abstract

Atomically ordered Rh₂P nanoclusters encapsulated within a high-surface-area hollow mesoporous carbon nanoreactor are catalytically active for hydrogen production via the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction and the room-temperature dehydrogenation of ammonia borane.