Interface engineering in crystalline/amorphous Pd-Ru heterostructures for boosting alkaline hydrogen oxidation kinetics

Jianmei Wang; Xiaozhong Zheng; Xinxin Shu; Shun Li; Jian Wu; Cong Wang; Lingzhi Kang

doi:10.1039/d6cc02472f

Interface engineering in crystalline/amorphous Pd-Ru heterostructures for boosting alkaline hydrogen oxidation kinetics

Chem Commun (Camb). 2026 Jul 3;62(51):12940-12944. doi: 10.1039/d6cc02472f.

Authors

Jianmei Wang¹, Xiaozhong Zheng², Xinxin Shu³, Shun Li¹, Jian Wu¹, Cong Wang¹, Lingzhi Kang¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Ecology & Health, Hangzhou Polytechnic University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China.
² Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China. chemzxz@njfu.edu.cn.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.

PMID: 42300897
DOI: 10.1039/d6cc02472f

Abstract

A crystalline/amorphous Pd-Ru heterostructure is developed for alkaline hydrogen oxidation. Pd nanoclusters decorated on amorphous Ru nanosheets induce an electron-rich heterointerface that concurrently optimizes H* and OH* adsorption, enabling a thermodynamically favorable Volmer step.