期刊
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
卷 304, 期 -, 页码 202-209出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.02.116
关键词
Wide range of pH; Hydrogen evolution reaction; Nickel selenide; Nitrogen doping; DFT calculation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation [51772110, 51572094, 21401060]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015M572135, 2017T100547]
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality [JCYJ20170818160751460]
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are regarded as suitable substitutes for precious Pt as the hydrogen evolution catalysts due to their low cost and unique electronic structure. However, the bulk crystals of these materials are good conductors but show poor catalytic performance, whereas their nanostructures exhibit better activity but lower conductivity. In this study, a self-supported three-dimensional (3D) porous nitrogen-doped nickel selenide (N-NiSe2) electrode is constructed and its HER activities over a wide range of pH are evaluated. Especially, only an overpotential of 86 mV is needed to afford the current density of 10 mA cm(-2) in an alkaline medium (1.0 M KOH, pH = 14). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that N-NiSe2 has lower Gibbs free-energy of H (Delta G(H*)) and water adsorption energy (Delta G(H2O*)) compared to pristine NiSe2, revealing that the catalyst-H* and catalyst-H2O state are easily to occur on the surface of N-NiSe2 and finally enhance the HER activity. The as obtained N-NiSe2 can be a potential non-noble-metal catalyst for practical hydrogen evolution reaction application. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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