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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 337, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.135850
Keywords
Ti4O7; MoS2; Composite electrocatalyst; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Water electrolysis
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province for Excellent Young Scholars [201601D021006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21776168]
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A catalytic non-carbon composite composed of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and conducting Magneli phase Ti4O7 is firstly synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method. The MoS2/Ti4O7 composite catalyst shows significantly improved hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity in 0.5 M H2SO4 especially at high overpotentials mainly due to the fast electron transfer ability caused by the newly formed interfacial S-O-Ti bonds and the enhanced electrochemical surface area. Tafel slope of the optimized MoS2/Ti4O7 catalyst is as low as 48 mV . dec(-1). It also presents an impressive stability with smaller activity degradation (5 mV potential shift at 10 mA cm(-2)) after 1000 cycles of cyclic voltammetry (CV) scanning. This is the first exploration on HER performances of MoS2 and conductive metal oxide composite electrocatalysts, shedding light on the research of non-noble metal (sulphide)-metal oxide interface in energy catalysis significantly crucial for the development of cost-effective and stable HER electrocatalysts and even other electrocatalytic materials. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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