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Chemical Communications

Carbide nano-islands with confined Mo–Ru sites enable sequential H2O adsorption and dissociation for accelerated hydrogen evolution

Shanshan Niu, ORCID logo *a   Lei-lei Qian,a   Na Yang,*b   Auttaphon Chachvalvutikulc  and  Haifeng Qi*c  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Life Science and Chemistry Engineering, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing 211200, Jiangsu, China
E-mail: nss1220@jssnu.edu.cn

b School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
E-mail: yna@uestc.edu.cn

c Max Planck-Cardiff Centre on the Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis FUNCAT, Translational Research Hu, Cardiff University, Maindy Road, Cardiff CF24 4HQ, UK
E-mail: qih11@cardiff.ac.uk

Abstract

Ru single atoms anchored on highly dispersed MoC nano-islands were embedded within nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets, in which Mo–Ru tandem sites synergistically delivered a low overpotential of 78 mV at 10 mA cm−2 and mass activity 15× higher than that of commercial Pt/C for the alkaline electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction.

Graphical abstract: Carbide nano-islands with confined Mo–Ru sites enable sequential H2O adsorption and dissociation for accelerated hydrogen evolution

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC03521J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Jun 2025
Accepted
04 Aug 2025
First published
06 Aug 2025

Chem. Commun., 2025,61, 14677-14680

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Carbide nano-islands with confined Mo–Ru sites enable sequential H2O adsorption and dissociation for accelerated hydrogen evolution

S. Niu, L. Qian, N. Yang, A. Chachvalvutikul and H. Qi, Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 14677 DOI: 10.1039/D5CC03521J

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