Single-Atom Rh-Tailored Pt Nanowires

Record alkaline HOR activity

Hydroxyl groups adsorbed on surface Rh sites reorganize the interfacial water structure to facilitate an energetically favorable transition state, markedly accelerating alkaline hydrogen oxidation kinetics.

Wan, Chengzhang · Zhang, Zisheng · Sibo, Wang · Sun, Qiang · Liu, Ershuai · Pu, Heting · Zhang, Ao · Hassan Shah, Aamir · Fu, Xiaoyang · Alexandrova, Anastassia N. · Qingying, Jia · Huang, Yu D. · Duan, Xiangfeng

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025