Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Edge-Oriented WS2(1-x)Se2xParticles on Three-Dimensional Porous NiSe2Foam.
The large consumption of natural fossil fuels and accompanying environmental problems are driving the exploration of cost-effective and robust catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting. Tungsten dichalcogenides (WS2, WSe2, etc.) are promising candidates for such purpose, but their HER performances are inherently limited by the sparse catalytic edge sites and poor electrical conductivity. Here we demonstrate a highly active and stable HER catalyst by integrating ternary tungsten sulfoselenide WS2(1-x)Se2xparticles with a 3D porous metallic NiSe2foam, in which good electrical conductivity, good contact, large surface area, and high-density active edge sites are simultaneously obtained, thus contributing to outstanding catalytic performance: large cathode current density (-10 mA/cm2at -88 mV), low Tafel slope (46.7 mV/dec), large exchange current density (214.7 μA/cm2), and good stability, which is better than most reports on WS2and NiSe2catalysts. This work paves an interesting route for boosting HER efficiency of transition metal dichalcogenide catalysts.
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Haiqing
H
Zhou
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Fang
F
Yu
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Jingying
J
Sun
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Hangtian
H
Zhu
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Ishwar Kumar
IK
Mishra
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Shuo
S
Chen
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States.
Zhifeng
Z
Ren
Edge-oriented; hydrogen evolution reaction; porous electrocatalyst; three-dimensional; tungsten disulfide; water splitting