journal article·2022-05-02

Charge Transfer of Interfacial Catalysts for Hydrogen Energy

Fuzhan Song, Tong Zhang, Dexia Zhou, Pengfei Sun, Zhou Lu, Hongtao Bian, Jingshuang Dang, Hong Gao, Yuqin Qian, Wei Li, Nan Jiang, Haley Dummer, Jeremy G. Shaw, Shutang Chen, Gugang Chen, Yujie Sun, Yi Rao

ACS Materials Letters· Volume 4· Issue 5
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Abstract

The development of multifunctional non-precious transition metal electrocatalysts is technologically significant in hydrogen and oxygen electrochemistry but challenging. Here we exploit interface engineering to construct a novel interface catalyst of Ni3N and Co2N that exhibits multifunctional hydrogen and oxygen electrochemical activities in alkaline media. The interface catalysts of Ni3N/Co2N show superior bifunctional activity for hydrogen electrochemistry comparable to the state-of-the-art Pt catalyst, as well as high oxygen evolution reaction activity. Furthermore, the multifunctional Ni3N/Co2N interface electrocatalysts demonstrate excellent applications in water splitting for H2 generation and a highly stable Swagelok-type Ni–H battery for H2 utilization. Density functional theory calculations further confirm that the interfacial charge transfer from Ni to Co and N in Ni3N/Co2N efficiently enhances the dissociative adsorption of H2 and optimizes the adsorption configurations and binding energies of the intermediate hydrogen and hydroxide in the multifunctional reactions.
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OpenAlex topics: Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion · Advanced battery technologies research · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

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Affiliations

Institute for Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, United States

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China

Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Material Science and Technology, School of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, China

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States

Enterprise Center of Guizhou Province, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

Honda Research Institute, USA, Inc., San Jose, California 95134, United States

Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States

Funding

University of Utah · Utah Science Technology and Research · University of Cincinnati · Honda Research Institute, USA · National Natural Science Foundation of China · National Science Foundation · Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education · Shannxi Normal University

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