Regulating Hydrogen/Oxygen Species Adsorption via Built-in Electric Field -Driven Electron Transfer Behavior at the Heterointerface for Efficient Water Splitting

© 2024 Wiley‐VCH GmbH..

Alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) plays a crucial role in the realization of a hydrogen economy. The design and development of efficient and stable bifunctional catalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are pivotal to achieving high-efficiency AWE. Herein, WC1-x/Mo2C nanoparticle-embedded carbon nanofiber (WC1-x/Mo2CCNF) with abundant interfaces is successfully designed and synthesized. Benefiting from the electron transfer behavior from Mo2C to WC1-x, the electrocatalysts of WC1-x/Mo2C@CNF exhibit superior HER and OER performance. Furthermore, when employed as anode and cathode in membrane electrode assembly devices, the WC1-x/Mo2C@CNF catalyst exhibits enhanced catalytic activity and remarkable stability for 100 hours at a high current density of 200 mA cm-2 towards overall water splitting. The experimental characterizations and theoretical simulation reveal that modulation of the d-band center for WC1-x/Mo2C@CNF, achieved through the asymmetric charge distribution resulting from the built-in electric field induced by work function, enables optimization of adsorption strength for hydrogen/oxygen intermediates, thereby promoting the catalytic kinetics for overall water splitting. This work provides promising strategies for designing highly active catalysts in energy conversion fields.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 63(2024), 16 vom: 15. Apr., Seite e202400888

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Wenjie [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Guangzhi [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Xuejie [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Zizheng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaojun [VerfasserIn]
Ramakrishna, Seeram [VerfasserIn]
Long, Yunze [VerfasserIn]
Jiao, Lifang [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Built-in electric field
D band center
Journal Article
Overall water splitting
WC1-x/Mo2C@CNF
Work function

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 09.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.202400888

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369090624