{"id":238234,"date":"2026-06-03T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/atomic-reshuffle-leads-to-record-breaking-catalysts-for-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:29:53","slug":"atomic-reshuffle-leads-to-record-breaking-catalysts-for-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/atomic-reshuffle-leads-to-record-breaking-catalysts-for-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"Atomic reshuffle leads to record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-reshuffle-leads-to-record-breaking-catalysts-for-hydrogen-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that atoms can be mixed, separated, and recombined within the same experiment, providing a pathway to a record-breaking catalyst for green hydrogen production. In their study, the team created nanoscale particles containing only a few dozen platinum and nickel atoms and observed unusual dynamic behavior in direct space and in real time. As the two metals separate from one another while maintaining an interface, they become highly active for electrochemical water splitting, leading to efficient hydrogen evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The project was led by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, Diamond Light Source, and Ulm University in Germany. The study appears in Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Research team leader Dr. Jesum Alves Fernandes, from the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, said, \u201cWhat makes this discovery exciting is that we can reversibly tune the structure of the particle while directly observing the process at the atomic scale. This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that atoms can be mixed, separated, and recombined within the same experiment, providing a pathway to a record-breaking catalyst for green hydrogen production. In their study, the team created nanoscale particles containing only a few dozen platinum and nickel atoms and observed unusual dynamic behavior in direct space and in real time. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,4,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}