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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 7847-7854Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02246
Keywords
hydrogen evolution reaction; porous-organic polymers; graphene; Pt immobilization; electrocatalysis
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- Zewail City of Science and Technology
- Center for Materials Science
- Egypt Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) [USC17-43]
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A facile, postsynthetic treatment of a designed composite of pyrimidine-based porous-organic polymer and graphene (PyPOP@G) with ionic Pt, and the subsequent uniform electrodeposition of Pt metallic within the pores, led to the formation of a composite material (PyPOP-Pt@G). The pyrimidine porous-organic polymer (PyPOP) was selected because of the abundant Lewis-base binding sites within its backbone, to be combined with graphene to produce the PyPOP@G composite that was shown to uptake Pt ions simply upon brief incubation in H2PtCl6 solution in acetonitrile. The XPS analysis of PyPOP@G sample impregnated with Pt ions confirmed the presence of Pt(II/IV) species and did not show any signs of metallic nanoparticles, as further confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. Immediately upon electrochemical reduction of the Pt(II/IV), metallic Pt (most likely atomistic Pt) was observed. This approach stands out, as compared to Pt monolayer deposition techniques atop metal foams, or a recently reported atomic layer deposition (ALD), as a way of depositing submonolayer coverage of precious catalysts within the 1-10 nm pores found in microporous solids. The prepared catalyst platform demonstrated large current density (100 mA/cm(2)) at 122 mV applied overpotential for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), with measured Faradaic efficiency of 97(+/- 1)%. Its mass activity (1.13 A/mg(pt)) surpasses that of commercial Pt/C (similar to 0.38 A/mgpt) at the overpotential of 100 mV. High durability has been assessed by cyclic and linear sweep voltammetry, as well as controlled potential electrolysis techniques. The Tafel plot for the catalyst demonstrated a slope of similar to 37 mV/decade, indicating a Heyrovsky-type rate-limiting step in the observed HER
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