期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 14, 期 20, 页码 24008-24019出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03584
关键词
1T-WS2; amorphous WO3; plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; hydrogen evolution reaction; hydrogen spillover effect
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (MEST) [2017R1A2B3011222]
- National Research Foundation under the Ministry of Science, ICT Future, Korea [2018M3D1A1058624]
- Technology Innovation Program - Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) [20011570]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [20011570] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017R1A2B3011222] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
This study introduces a nanodomain tungsten oxide (WO3) interface to 1T-WS2, enhancing the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance. The hydrophilic interface facilitates proton transfer from a-WO3 to 1T-WS2, resulting in faster response of the cathodic current peak. This novel strategy improves the catalytic performance for water splitting.
Using tungsten disulfide (WS2) as a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalyst brought on several ways to surpass its intrinsic catalytic activity. This study introduces a nanodomain tungsten oxide (WO3) interface to 1T-WS2, opening a new route for facilitating the transfer of a proton to active sites, thereby enhancing the HER performance. After H2S plasma sulfurization on the W layer to realize nanocrystalline 1T-WS2, subsequent O-2 plasma treatment led to the formation of amorphous WO3 (a-WO3), resulting in a patchwork-structured heterointerface of 1T-WS2/a-WO3 (WSO). Addition of a hydrophilic interface (WO3) facilitates the hydrogen spillover effect, which represents the transfer of absorbed protons from a-WO3 to 1T-WS2. Moreover, the faster response of the cathodic current peak (proton insertion) in cyclic voltammetry is confirmed by the higher degree of oxidation. The rationale behind the faster proton insertion is that the introduced a-WO3 works as a proton channel. As a result, WSO-1.2 (the ratio of 1T-WS2 to a-WO3) exhibits a remarkable HER activity in that 1T-WS2 consumes more protons provided by the channel, showing an overpotential of 212 mV at 10 mA/cm(2). Density functional theory calculations also show that the WO3 phase gives higher binding energies for initial proton adsorption, while the 1T-WS2 phase shows reduced HER overpotential. This improved catalytic performance demonstrates a novel strategy for water splitting to actively elicit the related reaction via efficient proton transport.
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