Boosting Water Dissociation Kinetics on Pt–Ni Nanowires by N‐Induced Orbital Tuning
Abstract
Although it is commonly believed that the water-dissociation-related Volmer process is the rate-limiting step for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on Pt-based catalysts, the underlying essence, particularly on the atomic scale, still remains unclear. Herein, it is revealed that the sluggish water-dissociation behavior probably stems from unfavorable orbital orientation and the kinetic issue is successfully resolved via N-induced orbital tuning. Impressively, N modified Pt-Ni nanowires deliver an ultralow overpotential of 13 mV at 10 mA cm -2 , which represents a new benchmark for alkaline HER catalysis. Fine-structural characterization and density functional theory analysis illustrate that the introduced nitrogen can uniquely modulate the electron densities around the Ni sites, and further create empty d z 2 orbitals with superior orientation for water adsorption and activation. More importantly, it is demonstrated that N-induced orbital modulation can generally boost the alkaline HER activities of Pt-Co, Pt-Ni, and Pt-Cu, offering a new perspective for the design of HER catalysts and beyond.
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- Authors
- Xie, Y., Cai, J., Wu, Y., Zang, Y., Zheng, X., Ye, J., Cui, P., Niu, S., Liu, Y., Zhu, J., Liu, X., Wang, G., & Qian, Y.
- Affiliations
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Xiaojing
- Wang, Gongming
- ORCID
- Venue
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-02-27
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- e1807780-e1807780
- ISSN
- 0935-9648 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-4095
- OpenAlex
- W2916380937
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 9
- FWCI
- 7.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21771169, 11804325, 11722543, 11875258, 11505187)
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (BJ2060190077)
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Recruitment Program of Global Experts
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Hydrogen Storage and Materials
- Keywords
- alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction, water dissociation kinetics, nitrogen doping, orbital orientation, Volmer step, Pt cocatalyst, electrocatalysis
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