Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 34, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202110680
Keywords
defects; hydrogen evolution reaction; Ir metallene; polyallylamine; pores
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21776255, 21972126, 21978264, 21905250]
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This work presents the fabrication of polyallylamine-encapsulated Ir metallene with defects and a porous structure (Ir@PAH metallene) through a one-step wet chemical reduction method. The Ir@PAH metallene exhibits excellent performance in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), with low overpotential, a low Tafel slope, and almost no activity decay after stability test. The abundant defects and pores, as well as the nanosheet structures of Ir@PAH metallene, provide a large specific surface area, high conductivity, and efficient mass transport/diffusion. The surface-functionalized PAH molecules play a crucial role in modulating the electronic structure and capturing hydrogen ions, which is beneficial for HER in acidic media.
The design of defects and porous structures into metallene with functional surfaces is highly desired to improve its permeability, surface area, and active sites, but remains a great challenge. In this work, polyallylamine-encapsulated Ir metallene with defects and porous structure (Ir@PAH metallene) is easily fabricated by a one-step wet chemical reduction method. The Ir@PAH metallene exhibits excellent hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance with an overpotential of only 14 mV at 10 mA cm(-2), a low Tafel slope of 31.2 mV dec(-1), and almost no activity decay after stability test. The abundant defects and pores as well as several-atomic-layer nanosheet structures of Ir@PAH metallene provide a large specific surface area, high conductivity, and efficient mass transport/diffusion. In addition, surface-functionalized PAH molecules can modulate the electronic structure through strong Ir-N interaction and act as proton carriers to capture hydrogen ions, which is very beneficial for the HER in acidic media. This work provides a useful strategy for the synthesis of the defective and porous metallene with functionalized surfaces for various catalytic applications.
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