Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 317, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121796
Keywords
Hydrogen evolution reaction; Ruthenium nanorods; Titanium nitride; Strong metal-support interaction; Stability
Funding
- Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [221RC1018]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22109034, 22109035, 52164028, 62105083]
- Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea (Hainan University) [MRUKF2021029]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Hainan Province [RZ2100007123]
- Start-up Research Foundation of Hainan University [20082, 20083, 20084, 21065, 21124, 21125]
- Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province
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In this study, a low-cost, high-efficiency hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalyst was designed using the strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) effect. The catalyst exhibited outstanding HER performance and excellent stability in high alkaline solution.
Designing low-cost, high-efficiency hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts to break the bottleneck of current electrocatalytic water splitting processes remains a formidable challenge. Here, we report a strong metal -support interaction (SMSI) effect constructed with ruthenium nanorods (Ru NRs) loaded in porous titanium nitride (TiN) nanosheet assembled hollow tube (labeled as Ru NRs/TiN). Ru NRs/TiN exhibits outstanding HER performance in 1.0 M KOH solution, requiring an overpotential of only 25 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cmi 2, and demonstrates ultra-high mass activity (20 times than that of Pt/C) and superior turnover fre-quency values with respect to most Ru-based catalysts. Density functional theory calculations show that the SMSI can induce a notable charge redistribution at the Ru-TiN interface and enhance the HER activity of the catalyst. Moreover, the catalyst exhibits excellent stability (10,000 cycles without decay) due to the SMSI effect between the Ru species and the TiN support. Our work has broadened the range of support options for Ru-based catalysts for HER, and provided new insights into the SMSI engineering.
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