Abdolkarim Abbaspour - Professor, College of Sciences, Shiraz University
Fatemeh Norouz-Sarvestani - PhD student, College of Sciences, Shiraz University
Ehsan Mirahmad - PhD student, College of Sciences, Shiraz University,mirahmadi

This paper describes the construction of a carbon paste electrode (CPE) impregnated with nanoparticles of Zn and Ni phthalocyanine (nanoZnPc and nanoNiPc ). The new electrodes revealed interesting electrocatalytic behaviour towards hydrogen evolution reaction ( HER) .Voltammetric characteristics indicated that the proposed electrode display better electrocatalytic activity compared to the correspondinging bulky modified phtalocyanines (MPcs) in minimizing overpotential and increasing current density.

Electrocatalyst, Hydrogen evolution reaction, water electrolysis