Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201700482
Keywords
2D materials; catalysis; FeS2 nanoparticles; ultrafast; water splitting
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- NSF [1635221]
- Maryland NanoCenter
- AIMLab
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11674071]
- ONR-MURI grant
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1635221] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Developing low-cost, highly efficient, and robust earth-abundant electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is critical for the scalable production of clean and sustainable hydrogen fuel through electrochemical water splitting. This study presents a facile approach for the synthesis of nanostructured pyrite-phase transition metal dichalcogenides as highly active, earthabundant catalysts in electrochemical hydrogen production. Iron disulfide (FeS2) nanoparticles are in situ loaded and stabilized on reduced graphene oxide (RGO) through a current-induced high-temperature rapid thermal shock (approximate to 12 ms) of crushed iron pyrite powder. FeS2 nanoparticles embedded in between RGO exhibit remarkably improved electrocatalytic performance for HER, achieving 10 mA cm(-2) current at an overpotential as low as 139 mV versus a reversible hydrogen electrode with outstanding long-term stability under acidic conditions. The presented strategy for the design and synthesis of highly active earth-abundant nanomaterial catalysts paves the way for lowcost and large-scale electrochemical energy applications.
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