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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 46, Issue 32, Pages 10700-10706Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt00878c
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- Hong Kong Research Grants Council [N_HKUST610/14, 16300915]
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It is still a challenging issue to design earth-abundant electrocatalysts with low cost, high activity and long-term stability for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) based on water splitting in alkaline solutions. Here, we report a facile synthetic route for a three-dimensional, porous Ni/Ni3S2 nano-network on carbon cloth for the efficient catalysis of HER. This unique structure exposes a high proportion of Ni/Ni3S2 hetero-interfaces to the electrolyte, creating a synergetic effect between Ni and Ni3S2 that enhances HER. The synergetic effect at the interface was verified by DFT calculation and involves the interface-assisted heterolytic splitting of H2O into OH- and H+ and the subsequent expeditious H-2-forming reaction caused by weakened binding between Ni and H induced by the neighboring Ni3S2. The resulting porous network shows high HER activity in alkaline media, reaching 10 mA cm(-2) at 95 mV with a Tafel slope of 66 mV dec(-1). This value is much smaller than that of nickel metal, which is currently used in industry.
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