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Clean rhodium nanoparticles prepared by laser ablation in liquid for high performance electrocatalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction
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2019-10-16Registro en:
Volpato, Giulia Alice; Muñetón Arboleda, David; Brandiele, Riccardo; Carraro, Francesco; Sartori, Giovanni Battista; et al.; Clean rhodium nanoparticles prepared by laser ablation in liquid for high performance electrocatalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction; Royal Society of Chemistry; Nanoscale Advances; 1; 11; 16-10-2019; 4296-4300
2516-0230
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Volpato, Giulia Alice
Muñetón Arboleda, David
Brandiele, Riccardo
Carraro, Francesco
Sartori, Giovanni Battista
Cardelli, Andrea
Badocco, Denis
Pastore, Paolo
Agnoli, Stefano
Durante, Christian
Amendola, Vincenzo
Sartorel, Andrea
Resumen
Rhodium nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by a one-step, green and facile procedure consisting in laser ablation of a bulk Rh target immersed in pure water (W–Rh-NPs) or ethanol (E–Rh-NPs). When embedded in mesoporous carbon based inks, both W–Rh-NPs and E– Rh-NPs show excellent activity towards the hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic media, operating close to the thermodynamic potential with 85–97% faradaic yields and low Tafel slopes of 50– 54 mV per decade in the low overpotential region (h < 20 mV). A superior activity of W–Rh-NPs with respect to E–Rh-NPs is ascribed to the absence of surface carbon reducible species derived from the synthesis in organic solvent, and thus confirms the importance of the use of water as the preferred medium for laser synthesis of clean nanocrystals in liquid environment. These results provide an important contribution to the impelling need for the preparation of nanocatalysts based on energy critical materials by clean, sustainable and low cost routes.