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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 21, 期 15, 页码 7918-7923出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00375d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21603207, 11875257, 11605204, U1532265]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK2310000070]
Understanding the variation of active structure during the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process is of great importance for aiding in the design of optimized electrocatalysts. Herein, we present a composite material of FeP nanoparticles coated by N-doped carbon (FeP@NC) as an efficient HER electrocatalyst, synthesized by a pyrolysis and equivalent-volume impregnation method. The as-prepared FeP@NC catalyst can accelerate the HER at a small overpotential of 135 mV with a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) in acidic medium and also shows a robust long-term stability with a minor decay of about 10% of the initial current density after 15 h. Using in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), a potential-dependent surface rearrangement of a surface pentahedral Fe structure into an octahedral Fe moiety via surface hydroxylation is clearly observed during the HER process, resulting in a much higher electrocatalytic activity. The theoretical calculations further unveil that the rearrangement of the surface FeP5(OH) octahedral structure could effectively trigger the adjacent P atoms to act as favorable proton acceptor sites towards improving the reaction kinetics of the Volmer step for efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution.
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