Retracted Article: Achieving near-Pt hydrogen production on defect nanocarbon via the synergy between carbon defects and heteroatoms

Abstract

The effect of the synergy between vacancy defects and a phosphorus dopant on the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of nanocarbon was revealed for the first time both experimentally and theoretically, and the as-prepared catalysts show near-Pt HER activities, which are the best among metal-free catalysts.