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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26315-7
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51991340, 51991343, 51920105002]
- Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program [2017ZT07C341]
- Guangdong Innovation Research Team for Higher Education [2017KCXTD030]
- High-level Talents Project of Dongguan University of Technology [KCYKYQD2017017]
- Shenzhen Basic Research Project [JCYJ20200109144620815, JCYJ20200109144616617]
- Economic, Trade and Information Commission of Shenzhen Municipality for the 2017 Graphene Manufacturing Innovation Center Project [201901171523]
The study presents a mechanically stable monolith electrocatalyst that achieves superior hydrogen evolution at large current densities.
The use of highly-active and robust catalysts is crucial for producing green hydrogen by water electrolysis as we strive to achieve global carbon neutrality. Noble metals like platinum are currently used catalysts in industry for the hydrogen evolution, but suffer from scarcity, high price and unsatisfied performance and stability at large current density, restrict their large-scale implementations. Here we report the synthesis of a type of monolith catalyst consisting of a metal disulfide (e.g., tantalum sulfides) vertically bonded to a conductive substrate of the same metal tantalum by strong covalent bonds. These features give the monolith catalyst a mechanically-robust and electrically near-zero-resistance interface, leading to an excellent hydrogen evolution performance including rapid charge transfer and excellent durability, together with a low overpotential of 398 mV to achieve a current density of 2,000 mA cm(-2) as required by industry. The monolith catalyst has a negligible performance decay after 200 h operation at large current densities. In light of its robust and metallic interface and the various choices of metals giving the same structure, such monolith materials would have broad uses besides catalysis. Water electrolysis is a promising hydrogen production technique but is restricted from large-scale application due to poor performance and high cost. Here, the authors report a mechanically stable monolith electrocatalyst that achieves superior hydrogen evolution at large current densities.
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