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N-Doped CrS2 Monolayer as a Highly-Efficient Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: A Computational Study

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NANOMATERIALS
卷 12, 期 17, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12173012

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CrS2 monolayer; non-metal doping; oxygen reduction reaction; overpotential; density functional theory

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  1. Natural Science Funds (NSF) for Distinguished Young Scholar of Heilongjiang Province [JC2018004]

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We have proposed a new class of ORR catalysts by doping the CrS2 monolayer with non-metal atoms. Among the candidates, N@CrS2 exhibits the best ORR catalytic activity with a lower overpotential than the state-of-the-art Pt catalyst. The excellent performance of N@CrS2 can be attributed to its optimal binding strength with the oxygenated intermediates.
Searching for low-cost and highly-efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts is crucial to the large-scale application of fuel cells. Herein, by means of density functional theory (DFT) computations, we proposed a new class of ORR catalysts by doping the CrS2 monolayer with non-metal atoms (X@CrS2, X = B, C, N, O, Si, P, Cl, As, Se, and Br). Our results revealed that most of the X@CrS2 candidates exhibit negative formation energy and large binding energy, thus ensuring their high stability and offering great promise for experimental synthesis. Moreover, based on the computed free energy profiles, we predicted that N@CrS2 exhibits the best ORR catalytic activity among all considered candidates due to its lowest overpotential (0.41 V), which is even lower than that of the state-of-the-art Pt catalyst (0.45 V). Remarkably, the excellent catalytic performance of N@CrS2 for ORR can be ascribed to its optimal binding strength with the oxygenated intermediates, according to the computed linear scaling relationships and volcano plot, which can be well verified by the analysis of the p-band center as well as the charge transfer between oxygenated species and catalysts. Therefore, by carefully modulating the incorporated non-metal dopants, the CrS2 monolayer can be utilized as a promising ORR catalyst, which may offer a new strategy to further develop eligible electrocatalysts in fuel cells.

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