Jiggly Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst

Science Daily  December 15, 2018
An international team of researchers (USA – MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley, US Army, China) used gelatin hydrogel as a scaffold to coordinate metal ions (Mo5+, W6+, Co2+), resulting in ultrathin‐film morphologies of diverse TMC sheets. Among these materials, the Mo2C–Co hybrid provides excellent hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) efficiency. Such performance makes Mo2C–Co a viable noble‐metal‐free catalyst for the HER and is competitive with the standard platinum on carbon support. This template‐assisted, self‐assembling, scalable, and low‐cost manufacturing process presents a new tactic to construct low‐dimensional TMCs with applications in various clean‐energy‐related fields…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

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