Phosphorus-Rich Colloidal Cobalt Diphosphide (CoP 2) Nanocrystals for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution
Abstract
Developing earth-abundant and efficient electrocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting is critical to realizing a high-performance solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion process. Here in this paper, phosphorus-rich colloidal cobalt diphosphide nanocrystals (CoP 2 NCs) are synthesized via hot injection. The CoP 2 NCs show a Pt-like hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalytic activity in acidic solution with a small overpotential of 39 mV to achieve -10 mA cm -2 and a very low Tafel slope of 32 mV dec -1. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the high P content both physically separates Co atoms to prevent H from over binding to multiple Co atoms, while simultaneously stabilizing H adsorbed to single Co atoms. The catalytic performance of the CoP 2 NCs is further demonstrated in a metal–insulator–semiconductor photoelectrochemical device consisting of bottom p-Si light absorber, atomic layer deposition Al–ZnO passivation layers, and the CoP 2 cocatalyst. The p-Si/AZO/TiO 2/CoP 2 photocathode shows a photocurrent density of -16.7 mA cm -2 at 0 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and an output photovoltage of 0.54 V. The high performance and stability are attributed to the junction between p-Si and AZO, the corrosion-resistance of the pinhole-free TiO 2 protective layer, and the fast HERmore »
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- Wake Forest Univ., Winston‐Salem NC (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Harbin Inst. of Technology, Shenzhen (China). Shenzhen Engineering Lab. of Flexible Transparent Conductive Films, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
- Soochow Univ. Suzhou, Jiangsu (China). Inst. of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM)
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Li, Hui, Wen, Peng, Itanze, Dominique S., Kim, Michael W., Adhikari, Shiba, Lu, Chang, Jiang, Lin, Qiu, Yejun, and Geyer, Scott M. Phosphorus-Rich Colloidal Cobalt Diphosphide (CoP2) Nanocrystals for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201900813.
Li, Hui, Wen, Peng, Itanze, Dominique S., Kim, Michael W., Adhikari, Shiba, Lu, Chang, Jiang, Lin, Qiu, Yejun, & Geyer, Scott M. Phosphorus-Rich Colloidal Cobalt Diphosphide (CoP2) Nanocrystals for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201900813
Li, Hui, Wen, Peng, Itanze, Dominique S., Kim, Michael W., Adhikari, Shiba, Lu, Chang, Jiang, Lin, Qiu, Yejun, and Geyer, Scott M. Mon .
"Phosphorus-Rich Colloidal Cobalt Diphosphide (CoP2) Nanocrystals for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201900813. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1511912.
@article{osti_1511912,
title = {Phosphorus-Rich Colloidal Cobalt Diphosphide (CoP2) Nanocrystals for Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution},
author = {Li, Hui and Wen, Peng and Itanze, Dominique S. and Kim, Michael W. and Adhikari, Shiba and Lu, Chang and Jiang, Lin and Qiu, Yejun and Geyer, Scott M.},
abstractNote = {Developing earth-abundant and efficient electrocatalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting is critical to realizing a high-performance solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion process. Here in this paper, phosphorus-rich colloidal cobalt diphosphide nanocrystals (CoP2 NCs) are synthesized via hot injection. The CoP2 NCs show a Pt-like hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalytic activity in acidic solution with a small overpotential of 39 mV to achieve -10 mA cm-2 and a very low Tafel slope of 32 mV dec-1. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the high P content both physically separates Co atoms to prevent H from over binding to multiple Co atoms, while simultaneously stabilizing H adsorbed to single Co atoms. The catalytic performance of the CoP2 NCs is further demonstrated in a metal–insulator–semiconductor photoelectrochemical device consisting of bottom p-Si light absorber, atomic layer deposition Al–ZnO passivation layers, and the CoP2 cocatalyst. The p-Si/AZO/TiO2/CoP2 photocathode shows a photocurrent density of -16.7 mA cm-2 at 0 V versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and an output photovoltage of 0.54 V. The high performance and stability are attributed to the junction between p-Si and AZO, the corrosion-resistance of the pinhole-free TiO2 protective layer, and the fast HER kinetics of the CoP2 NCs.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201900813},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1511912},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
issn = {0935-9648},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {5}
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