Date

Friday 25 Apr 2025

Time

15:15 - 15:45

Location

BW005

Supervisor

Irene Groot

Jury

Dennis Hetterscheid

The growing demand for ’green’ energy has lead to the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) becoming a key focus in electrochemical research. With contemporary catalysts being too scarce and expensive, new types of catalysts are being studied. One of the catalysts at the forefront is (co)-doped graphene, acting as both a catalyst itself and a tunable support. Many studies have focused on incorporating already existing HER catalysts with (co)-doped graphene. Numerous of these hybrid HER catalysts have shown high activity and stability for the HER. However, most of them are still based on noble metals, like Pt. Solely (co)-doped graphene catalysts that do not contain any expensive metals, lack in overall activity. However, combining lower cost transition metals with (co)-doped graphene, could provide a promising approach towards new HER

catalysts.