Tuning of Trifunctional NiCu Bimetallic Nanoparticles Confined in a Porous Carbon Network with Surface Composition and Local Structural Distortions for the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction, Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions
Md Ariful Ahsan, Alain R. Puente Santiago, Yu Hong, Ning Zhang, Manuel Cano, Enrique Rodrı́guez-Castellón, Luís Echegoyen, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Juan C. Noveron
Abstract
and Pt catalysts and kept at least 90% of the initial current applied after 20 000 s for the OER/ORR/HER reactions. This study reveals significant insight about the structure-function relationship for non-noble bimetallic nanostructures with multifunctional electrocatalytic properties.
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