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Synergistic interactions between PtRu catalyst and nitrogen-doped carbon support boost hydrogen oxidation

Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Xile Hu, Anna Krammer, Weiyan Ni, Lichen Bai, Miyeon Chang, Seunghwa Lee, Songlan Sun, Seongmin Jin, Yiwei Zheng

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) is a potentially cost-effective energy conversion technology. However, current state-of-the-art HEMFCs require a high loading of platinum-group-metal (PGM) catalysts, especially for the hydrogen oxidation react ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Modulating electric field distribution by alkali cations for CO2 electroreduction in strongly acidic medium

Xile Hu, Sophia Haussener, Weiyan Ni, Shuo Liu, Wenhao Ren

The reaction of carbon dioxide with hydroxide to form carbonate in near-neutral or alkaline medium severely limits the energy and carbon efficiency of CO2 electroreduction. Here we show that by suppression of the otherwise predominant hydrogen evolution us ...

2022

An efficient nickel hydrogen oxidation catalyst for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Andreas Schueler, Jeremy Luterbacher, Xile Hu, Anna Krammer, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Weiyan Ni, Liang Yao, Seunghwa Lee

Hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells are promising as an energy conversion technology, but require platinum group metal electrocatalysts for their application. A Ni-based hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst is now shown to exhibit unprecedented electroc ...

2022

The design and synthesis of nanostructured hydrogen oxidation reaction electrocatalysts for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

Weiyan Ni

Hydrogen fuel cell is a promising green technology that transforms the chemical energy in hydrogen into electricity. Currently, most of the efforts are focused on developing proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), however they are heavily dependent o ...

EPFL2021

Efficient Hydrogen Oxidation Catalyzed by Strain-Engineered Nickel Nanoparticles

Xile Hu, Weiyan Ni, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Teng Wang

The hydroxide-exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) is a promising energy conversion device. However, the development of HEMFC is hampered by the lack of platinum-group-metal-free (PGM-free) electrocatalysts for the hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR). Now, a ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Colossal mid-infrared bulk photovoltaic effect in a type-I Weyl semimetal

Weiyan Ni, Xiangwei Huang, Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Xu Yang

Broadband, efficient and fast conversion of light to electricity is crucial for sensing and clean energy. The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a second-order nonlinear optical effect that intrinsically converts light into electrical current. Here, we dem ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Ni3N as an Active Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction Catalyst in Alkaline Medium

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Xile Hu, Anna Krammer, Weiyan Ni

Hydroxide-exchange membrane fuel cells can potentially utilize platinum-group-metal (PGM)-free electrocatalysts, offering cost and scalability advantages over more developed proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. However, there is a lack of non-precious elec ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019