title: Porous one-dimensional Mo2C-amorphous carbon composites: high-efficient and durable electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation.
abstract: Porous one-dimensional Mo2C-amorphous carbon composites, fabricated by in situ solid state reactions, are exhibited as effective and high-performance electrocatalysts towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The morphological and structural characteristics of the Mo2C based electrocatalysts were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The analyses showed that they had various advantages for the HER, including a high crystallinity, porous and tubular characteristics and good conductivity. The porous one-dimensional Mo2C-amorphous carbon composites with a larger content of Mo2C and moderate thickness of the carbon layers exhibited superior catalytic activities for HER to most of the Mo2C based electrocatalysts recently reported.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, and College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. chenyujin@hrbeu.edu.cn chunyanli@hrbeu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Chunyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xianbo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yujin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen