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  • Corina Andronescu, Tsvetan Tarnev and Harshitha Barike Ayappa are discussing an experiment using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy.
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  • Research team: Corina Andronescu, Harshitha Barike Aiyappa, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Tsvetan Tarnev and Andrej Ernst  (from left)
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Chemistry

Determining the activity of noble-metal-free catalyst particles

Noble-metal-free nanoparticles could serve as catalysts for the production of hydrogen from water. Because they are so small, their properties are difficult to determine.

Chemists have developed a new method with which they can characterise individual noble-metal-free nanoparticle catalysts. The particles could be a cheap alternative to precious metal catalysts for obtaining hydrogen from water by means of electrolysis. “In order to develop effective nanoparticles, we need to understand how the structure and activity of individual particles or small particle groups are related to each other,” says Professor Wolfgang Schuhmann of the Center for Electrochemistry at RUB. He describes a new measurement method for this purpose together with the researchers Tsvetan Tarnev and Dr. Harshitha Barike Ayappa from Bochum and Professor Corina Andronescu from the University of Duisburg-Essen and other colleagues in the journal “Angewandte Chemie” of 1 October 2019.

So far, there are few techniques available to measure the catalytic activity of individual or a few nanoparticles. “The currents that have to be measured are extremely small, and one has to find single or few nanoparticles in order to measure them reproducibly,” explains Schuhmann. The research team, which cooperates within the University Alliance Ruhr, showed that such analyses are also possible with high throughput – namely with scanning electrochemical cell microscopy.

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Published
Friday
4 October 2019
8.50 AM
By
Julia Weiler
Translated by
Patrick Wilde
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