In a joint research effort led by Marco Altomare, in collaboration with coworkers from Germany and Italy, Shreyas Harsha, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Guido Mul (all Photocatalytic Synthesis [PCS], CE department), Chris Baeumer (Inorganic Material Science [IMS], NEM department), and Igor Makhotkin (XUV, NEM department) published an article on hydrogen generation by water electrolysis in Advanced Functional Materials: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adfm.202403628
The paper is also featured in a virtual collection on "Hot Topic: Water Splitting" https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2196-0216.hottopic-watersplitting. The article shows how their electrode preparation method based on solid-state dewetting can be used to design model nanostructured electrodes, with minimized composition and structural complexity, thus making it possible to accurately study nanoscale effects in nanoparticle electrodes, and develop more active electrode materials, so to reduce the required amount of noble metals.
