Nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting in acid

Han, Nana; Yang, Ke R.; Lu, Zhiyi; Li, Yingjie; Xu, Wenwen; Gao, Tengfei; Cai, Zhao; Zhang, Ying; Batista, Victor S.; Liu, Wen; Sun, Xiaoming

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03429-z

Nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting in acid

Journal Article · Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03429-z· OSTI ID:1490192

Han, Nana ^[1]; Yang, Ke R. ^[2]; Lu, Zhiyi ^[1]; Li, Yingjie ^[1]; Xu, Wenwen ^[1]; Gao, Tengfei ^[1]; Cai, Zhao ^[1]; Zhang, Ying ^[1]; Batista, Victor S. ^[2]; ^[3]; Sun, Xiaoming ^[1]

Beijing Univ. of Chemical Technology (China). State Key Lab. of Chemical Resource Engineering
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Inst.
Beijing Univ. of Chemical Technology (China). State Key Lab. of Chemical Resource Engineering; Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Inst.

Tungsten carbide is one of the most promising electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction, although it exhibits sluggish kinetics due to a strong tungsten-hydrogen bond. In addition, tungsten carbide’s catalytic activity toward the oxygen evolution reaction has yet to be reported. Here, we introduce a superaerophobic nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray electrode exhibiting high stability and activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction as well as driving oxygen evolution efficiently in acid. Nitrogen-doping and nanoarray structure accelerate hydrogen gas release from the electrode, realizing a current density of -200 mA cm^-2 at the potential of -190 mV vs. reversible hydrogen electrode, which manifest one of the best non-noble metal catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. Under acidic conditions (0.5 M sulfuric acid), water splitting catalyzed by nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray starts from about 1.4 V, and outperforms most other water splitting catalysts.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001059

OSTI ID:: 1490192

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723

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Self‐Assembled Monolayer Stabilized Gold‐Vanadate Nanoflute for Water Splitting Reactions Das, Biraj; Sharma, Mukesh; Hazarika, Anil ChemistrySelect, Vol. 4, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201901715	journal	June 2019
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Fibrous‐Structured Freestanding Electrodes for Oxygen Electrocatalysis Jiang, Shan; Li, Jingliang; Fang, Jian Small https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201903760	journal	December 2019
Phosphorus and Yttrium Codoped Co(OH)F Nanoarray as Highly Efficient and Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting Zhang, Gengwei; Wang, Bin; Li, Lu Small, Vol. 15, Issue 42 https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201904105	journal	August 2019
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A hierarchical nickel–carbon structure templated by metal–organic frameworks for efficient overall water splitting Sun, Hao; Lian, Yuebin; Yang, Cheng Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 11, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00934a	journal	January 2018
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Ultrafast fabrication of nickel sulfide film on Ni foam for efficient overall water splitting Ren, Gang; Hao, Qiuyan; Mao, Jing Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 36 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr05494k	journal	January 2018
Activation of defective nickel molybdate nanowires for enhanced alkaline electrochemical hydrogen evolution An, Li; Zhang, Yu; Wang, Rui Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr05723k	journal	January 2018
W ₂ C nanodot-decorated CNT networks as a highly efficient and stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution in acidic and alkaline media Hu, Yang; Yu, Bo; Li, Wenxin Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr10281c	journal	January 2019
Well-aligned metal–organic framework array-derived CoS ₂ nanosheets toward robust electrochemical water splitting Yao, Na; Tan, Tan; Yang, Fulin Materials Chemistry Frontiers, Vol. 2, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8qm00259b	journal	January 2018
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Boosting hydrogen evolution activity of vanadyl pyrophosphate nanosheets for electrocatalytic overall water splitting Zhang, Chaoxiong; Liu, Haoxuan; He, Jia Chemical Communications, Vol. 55, Issue 71 https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc04481g	journal	January 2019
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A universal synthesis strategy to make metal nitride electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction Yu, Luo; Song, Shaowei; McElhenny, Brian Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 34 https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ta05455c	journal	January 2019
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