Hydrogen Electrocatalysis on Single Crystals and on Nanostructured Electrodes

ELIZABETH SANTOS; PETER HINDELANG; PAOLA QUAINO; EDUARDO NICOLÁS SCHULZ; GERMÁN JOSÉ SOLDANO

Chemphyschem

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Lugar: Weinheim; Año: 2011 vol. 12 p. 2274 - 2279

1439-4235

We investigate hydrogen evolution on plain and nanostructured electrodes with a theory developed by us. On electrodes involving transition metals the most strongly adsorbed hydrogen is often only a spectator, while the reaction proceeds via a weakly adsorbed species. For Pt(111) the isotherms for both species are calculated. We explain why a nanostructure consisting of a monolayer of Pd on Au(111) is a good catalysts, and predict that Rh/Au(111) should be even better. Our calculations for a fair number of metals are in good agreement with experiment.