Highly efficient and durable PtCo alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanofibers for electrochemical hydrogen generation.

@article{Yang2016HighlyEA,
  title={Highly efficient and durable PtCo alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanofibers for electrochemical hydrogen generation.},
  author={Ting-ting Yang and Han Zhu and Meng Wan and Liang Dong and Ming Zhang and Mingliang Du},
  journal={Chemical communications},
  year={2016},
  volume={52 5},
  pages={
          990-3
        }
}
PtCo/CNFs exhibit extraordinary catalytic activity and durability for hydrogen evolution reaction, even approaching the performance of the commercial Pt/C catalyst, which can be attributed to the alloy structure and the encapsulation of PtCo alloy nanoparticles in CNFs. 
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