An international team led by City University of Hong Kong has announced a groundbreaking step forward that has added significantly to the technical know-how required to clean up the planet.centres on developing a highly efficient electrocatalyst that can enhance hydrogen generation through electrocatalytic water splitting.
Cleaner energy sources are desperately needed, but the challenges in weaning the world off fossil fuels and onto more sustainable energies are enormous. Professor Zhang's collaborators include Professor Anthony R. J. Kucernak from the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London and researchers from universities and research institutes in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the UK.
But in this research, Professor Zhang's team has developed a new method to prepare unconventional-phase TMD nanosheets with high phase-purity and quality. Furthermore, they have investigated the crystal phase-dependent growth of noble metals on the TMD nanosheet supports.