Abstract

The electrochemical hydrogen evolution is a key technology for future renewable energy conversion and storage. Platinum is the most efficient catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but its mass activity should be boosted further. Herein, we deposited platinum on nitrogen-doped vertical graphene through an atomic layer deposition method. Aberration-corrected high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy confirmed that the platinum was highly dispersed on the array substrate. On account of the array structure and high dispersion of platinum, the synthesized catalyst exhibited high HER performance with a low overpotential of 42 mV at 10 mA cm−2 and a low Tafel slope of 52.2 mV dec−1. Significantly, the synthesized catalyst exhibited a high mass activity of 4.45 A mg−1 Pt, which was ∼13 times higher than that of commercial Pt/C.

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