Metallic nanostructures with low dimensionality for electrochemical water splitting

Metallic nanostructures with low dimensionality (one-dimension and two-dimension) possess unique structural characteristics and distinctive electronic and physicochemical properties including high aspect ratio, high specific surface area, high density of surface unsaturated atoms and high electron mobility. These distinctive features have rendered them remarkable advantages over their bulk counterparts for surface-related applications, for example, electrochemical water splitting. In this review article, we highlight the recent research progress in low-dimensional metallic nanostructures for electrochemical water splitting including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER).…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 21571135
• MO
  Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

  Awards: 2017YFA0208200, 2016YFA0204100
• SU
  Soochow University
• PA
  Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions