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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 47, Issue 99, Pages 41733-41747Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.02.159
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Single-atom catalysts; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Ni@alpha-SiX; Density functional theory (DFT); Gibbs free energy
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST) , Government of India [DST/INSPIRE Fellowship/2018/IF180724]
- Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India [CRG/2019/001292]
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In this study, the structural, electronic, and HER activity of Ni anchored alpha-SiX SACs on alpha-SiX supports were systematically investigated. The results demonstrate that Ni anchored alpha-SiX SACs can greatly enhance the HER activity.
Single-atom catalyst is designed to gain excellent catalytic activity with extremely mini-mizing expensive noble transition metal loadings for electrochemical energy conversion applications. Here, we have systematically studied structural and electronic properties and HER activity of pristine alpha-SiX (X = N, P, As, Sb, Bi) monolayers and Ni anchored alpha-SiX SACs using density functional theory. The negative magnitude of the binding energy of the Ni anchored alpha-SiX SACs shows strong interaction between Ni single-atom and alpha-SiX supports. The introduction of Ni single-atom on alpha-SiX (X = N, P, As, Sb, Bi) supports reduces band gap by 90.85%, 60.66%, 83.43%, 74.33%, and 83.33%, respectively as compared to the pristine monolayers. The Ni@alpha-SiX (X = N, P, As, Sb, Bi) SACs enhances the HER activity by 95.00%, 29.24%, 67.97%, 69.71% and 39.53% as compared to its pristine monolayers. Our results suggest that the Ni@alpha-SiN SACs can be an ideal HER catalysts because Delta G similar to 0 eV. (c) 2022 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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