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Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution.


ABSTRACT: Engineering catalytic sites at the atomic level provides an opportunity to understand the catalyst's active sites, which is vital to the development of improved catalysts. Here we show a reliable and tunable polyoxometalate template-based synthetic strategy to atomically engineer metal doping sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2, using Anderson-type polyoxometalates as precursors. Benefiting from engineering nickel and oxygen atoms, the optimized electrocatalyst shows great enhancement in the hydrogen evolution reaction with a positive onset potential of ~?0?V and a low overpotential of -46?mV in alkaline electrolyte, comparable to platinum-based catalysts. First-principles calculations reveal co-doping nickel and oxygen into 1T-MoS2 assists the process of water dissociation and hydrogen generation from their intermediate states. This research will expand on the ability to improve the activities of various catalysts by precisely engineering atomic activation sites to achieve significant electronic modulations and improve atomic utilization efficiencies.

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395606 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS<sub>2</sub> catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution.

Huang Yichao Y   Sun Yuanhui Y   Zheng Xueli X   Aoki Toshihiro T   Pattengale Brian B   Huang Jier J   He Xin X   Bian Wei W   Younan Sabrina S   Williams Nicholas N   Hu Jun J   Ge Jingxuan J   Pu Ning N   Yan Xingxu X   Pan Xiaoqing X   Zhang Lijun L   Wei Yongge Y   Gu Jing J  

Nature communications 20190228 1


Engineering catalytic sites at the atomic level provides an opportunity to understand the catalyst's active sites, which is vital to the development of improved catalysts. Here we show a reliable and tunable polyoxometalate template-based synthetic strategy to atomically engineer metal doping sites onto metallic 1T-MoS<sub>2</sub>, using Anderson-type polyoxometalates as precursors. Benefiting from engineering nickel and oxygen atoms, the optimized electrocatalyst shows great enhancement in the  ...[more]

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