Tunable intrinsic strain in two-dimensional transition metal electrocatalysts

Wang, Lei; Zeng, Zhenhua; Gao, Wenpei; Maxson, Tristan; Raciti, David; Giroux, Michael; Pan, Xiaoqing; Wang, Chao; Greeley, Jeffrey

doi:10.1126/science.aat8051

Title: Tunable intrinsic strain in two-dimensional transition metal electrocatalysts

Journal Article · Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8051· OSTI ID:1542463

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Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Tuning surface strain is a powerful strategy for tailoring the reactivity of metal catalysts. Traditionally, surface strain is imposed by external stress from a heterogeneous substrate, but the effect is often obscured by interfacial reconstructions and nanocatalyst geometries. Here, we report on a strategy to resolve these problems by exploiting intrinsic surface stresses in two-dimensional transition metal nanosheets. Density functional theory calculations indicate that attractive interactions between surface atoms lead to tensile surface stresses that exert a pressure on the order of 10⁵atmospheres on the surface atoms and impart up to 10% compressive strain, with the exact magnitude inversely proportional to the nanosheet thickness. Atomic-level control of thickness thus enables generation and fine-tuning of intrinsic strain to optimize catalytic reactivity, which was confirmed experimentally on Pd(110) nanosheets for the oxygen reduction and hydrogen evolution reactions, with activity enhancements that were more than an order of magnitude greater than those of their nanoparticle counterparts.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

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

DOE Contract Number:: SC0010379; AC02-06CH11357; EE0007270

OSTI ID:: 1542463

Journal Information:: Science, Vol. 363, Issue 6429; ISSN 0036-8075

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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