The team of researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Technical University in Munich and Universiteit Leiden have boosted the efficiency of water electrolysis. They applied a layer of copper atoms in a conventional platinum electrode. Thus, reaction intermediates could desorb a bit more easily from the catalyst surface. The modified system generated twice the amount of hydrogen than a platinum electrode without a copper layer. The modified system generated twice the amount of hydrogen. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-efficiency-electrolysis.html Paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160310/ncomms10990/full/ncomms10990.html
