Severe Plastic Deformation for Advanced Electrocatalysts for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production

Abstract

Developing electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) of water splitting is very important for electrocatalytic hydrogen production. Very recently, emerging study have demonstrated that materials show some superior HER and OER performances of water splitting after processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD). In this work, recent advances on electrochemical hydrogen production performances of materials by SPD are summarized. Some basic principles of electrocatalytic water splitting are briefly described, and then the development of SPD technology and recent advances on SPDed materials with enhanced hydrogen production properties are comprehensively reviewed. Moreover, future direction on SPDed materials for hydrogen production is also prospected.