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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 16, 页码 10823-10829出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01065a
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- EPFL
- Competence Center for Energy and Mobility (CCEM)
- Catalysis for Sustainable Energy (CASE) initiative
- Danish Council for Strategic Research via NACORR [12-132695]
We present insights into the mechanism and the active site for hydrogen evolution on nickel phosphide (Ni2P). Ni2P was recently discovered to be a very active non-precious hydrogen evolution catalyst. Current literature attributes the activity of Ni2P to a particular site on the (0001) facet. In the present study, using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, we show that several widely available low index crystal facets on Ni2P have better properties for a high catalytic activity. DFT calculations were used to identify moderately bonding nickel bridge sites and nickel hollow sites for hydrogen adsorption and to calculate barriers for the Tafel pathway. The investigated surfaces in this study were the (10 (1) over bar0), ((1) over bar(1) over bar 20), (11 (2) over bar0), (11 (2) over bar1) and (0001) facets of the hexagonal Ni2P crystal. In addition to the DFT results, we present experiments on Ni2P nanowires growing along the < 0001 > direction, which are shown as efficient hydrogen evolution catalysts. The experimental results add these nanowires to a variety of different morphologies of Ni2P, which are all active for HER.
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