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Hydrogen evolution: Guiding principles

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Lower-cost alternatives to platinum electrocatalysts are being explored for the sustainable production of hydrogen, but often trial-and-error approaches are used for their development. Now, principles are elucidated that suggest pathways to rationally design efficient metal-free electrocatalysts based on doped graphene.

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Figure 1: Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution on heteroatom-doped graphene materials.

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  1. Zhenhai Xia is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203, USA and at the College of Energy, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.,

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Xia, Z. Hydrogen evolution: Guiding principles. Nat Energy 1, 16155 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.155

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