Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO(3-x) enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting

Noble metal electrocatalysts (e.g., Pt, Ru, etc.) suffer from sluggish kinetics of water dissociation for the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen in alkaline and neutral pH environments. Herein, we found that an integration of Ru nanoparticles (NPs) on oxygen-deficient WO(3-x) m...

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Autores principales: Chen, Jiadong, Chen, Chunhong, Qin, Minkai, Li, Ben, Lin, Binbin, Mao, Qing, Yang, Hongbin, Liu, Bin, Wang, Yong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9474501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36104336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33007-3
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Sumario:Noble metal electrocatalysts (e.g., Pt, Ru, etc.) suffer from sluggish kinetics of water dissociation for the electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen in alkaline and neutral pH environments. Herein, we found that an integration of Ru nanoparticles (NPs) on oxygen-deficient WO(3-x) manifested a 24.0-fold increase in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity compared with commercial Ru/C electrocatalyst in neutral electrolyte. Oxygen-deficient WO(3-x) is shown to possess large capacity for storing protons, which could be transferred to the Ru NPs under cathodic potential. This significantly increases the hydrogen coverage on the surface of Ru NPs in HER and thus changes the rate-determining step of HER on Ru from water dissociation to hydrogen recombination.

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