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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 60, Issue 8, Pages 5890-5897Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00302
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22075152, 61805147]
- Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Province [BK20190918]
- Natural Science Research Projects of Universities in the Jiangsu Province [19KJB430030]
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The research demonstrates that the performance of the oxygen evolution reaction can be effectively improved by loading Au gold nanoparticles on MXene Ti3C2Tx nanosheets, and tuning the size and concentration of Au gold nanoparticles can further enhance the catalytic performance.
As we know, in plasmonic-enhanced heterogeneous catalysis, the reaction rates could be remarkably accelerated by generating hot carriers in the constituent nanostructured metals. To further improve the reaction rate, well-defined heterostructures based on plasmonic gold nanoparticles on MXene Ti3C2Tx nanosheets (Au NPs@Ti3C2Tx) were rationally designed and systematically investigated to improve the performance of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The results demonstrated that the catalysis performance of the Au NPs@Ti3C2Tx system could be easily tuned by simply varying the concentration and size of Au NPs, and Au NPs@Ti3C2Tx with an average Au NP diameter (similar to 10 nm) exhibited a 2.5-fold increase in the oxidation or reduction current compared with pure Ti3C2Tx. The enhanced OER performance can be attributed to the synergistic effect of the plasmonic hot hole injection and Schottky junction carrier trapping. Owing to easy fabrication of Au NPs@Ti3C2Tx, the tunable size and concentration of Au NPs loaded on MXene nanosheets, and the significantly enhanced OER, it is expected that this work can lay the foundation to the design of multidimensional MXene-based heterostructures for highly efficient OER performance.
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