Breakthrough of electrocatalyst—highly curved PdMo nanosheet

Recently, the group of Professor Guo Shaojun in College of Engineering at Peking University developed a novel type of sub-nanometer, highly curved PdMo nanosheet—due to its structural analogy with graphene, it was denoted as PdMo bimetallene, and showed extraordinary electrocatalytic performance toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline environment. When used as the cathode electrocatalysts, the PdMo nanosheets enable much enhanced changing/discharging performance in Zn-air and Li-air batteries.