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ACS ENERGY LETTERS
Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 367-372Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00184
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- DST, New Delhi, India
- CSIR
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A layered MPS3-type compound, FePS3, is introduced as an electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The non-noble metal-based FePS3 is a semiconductor that could be solvent exfoliated into few-layer, two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets. The 2D thin sheets exhibit very good catalytic activity and stability toward HER over a wide pH range of acidic, alkaline, phosphate buffer, and 3.5 wt % aqueous NaCl solutions. The Tafel slope and exchange current density in acidic medium are determined to be similar to(45-50) mV dec(-1) and 1 +/- 0.2 x 10(-3) A cm(-2), respectively. The stability of the catalyst is found to be very good. Density functional theory calculations reveal P and S as favorable hydrogen adsorption sites. This material opens up a new class of ternary, layered semiconductors for various electrocatalytic studies and might also become important from a device physics point of view.
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