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Title: Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution

Abstract

One of the key components of carbon dioxide-free hydrogen production is a robust and efficient non-precious metal catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. We report that a hierarchical nanoporous copper-titanium bimetallic electrocatalyst is able to produce hydrogen from water under a mild overpotential at more than twice the rate of state-of-the- art carbon-supported platinum catalyst. Although both copper and titanium are known to be poor hydrogen evolution catalysts, the combination of these two elements creates unique copper-copper-titanium hollow sites, which have a hydrogen-binding energy very similar to that of platinum, resulting in an exceptional hydrogen evolution activity. Moreover, the hierarchical porosity of the nanoporous-copper titanium catalyst also contributes to its high hydrogen evolution activity, because it provides a large-surface area for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, and improves the mass transport properties. Moreover, the catalyst is self-supported, eliminating the overpotential associated with the catalyst/support interface.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  2. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
  3. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1256016
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-13ER16381; SC0009476
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Lu, Qi, Hutchings, Gregory S., Yu, Weiting, Zhou, Yang, Forest, Robert V., Tao, Runzhe, Rosen, Jonathan, Yonemoto, Bryan T., Cao, Zeyuan, Zheng, Haimei, Xiao, John Q., Jiao, Feng, and Chen, Jingguang G. Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms7567.
Lu, Qi, Hutchings, Gregory S., Yu, Weiting, Zhou, Yang, Forest, Robert V., Tao, Runzhe, Rosen, Jonathan, Yonemoto, Bryan T., Cao, Zeyuan, Zheng, Haimei, Xiao, John Q., Jiao, Feng, & Chen, Jingguang G. Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7567
Lu, Qi, Hutchings, Gregory S., Yu, Weiting, Zhou, Yang, Forest, Robert V., Tao, Runzhe, Rosen, Jonathan, Yonemoto, Bryan T., Cao, Zeyuan, Zheng, Haimei, Xiao, John Q., Jiao, Feng, and Chen, Jingguang G. Mon . "Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7567. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256016.
@article{osti_1256016,
title = {Highly porous non-precious bimetallic electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution},
author = {Lu, Qi and Hutchings, Gregory S. and Yu, Weiting and Zhou, Yang and Forest, Robert V. and Tao, Runzhe and Rosen, Jonathan and Yonemoto, Bryan T. and Cao, Zeyuan and Zheng, Haimei and Xiao, John Q. and Jiao, Feng and Chen, Jingguang G.},
abstractNote = {One of the key components of carbon dioxide-free hydrogen production is a robust and efficient non-precious metal catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. We report that a hierarchical nanoporous copper-titanium bimetallic electrocatalyst is able to produce hydrogen from water under a mild overpotential at more than twice the rate of state-of-the- art carbon-supported platinum catalyst. Although both copper and titanium are known to be poor hydrogen evolution catalysts, the combination of these two elements creates unique copper-copper-titanium hollow sites, which have a hydrogen-binding energy very similar to that of platinum, resulting in an exceptional hydrogen evolution activity. Moreover, the hierarchical porosity of the nanoporous-copper titanium catalyst also contributes to its high hydrogen evolution activity, because it provides a large-surface area for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, and improves the mass transport properties. Moreover, the catalyst is self-supported, eliminating the overpotential associated with the catalyst/support interface.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms7567},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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Donor–Acceptor Nanocarbon Ensembles to Boost Metal‐Free All‐pH Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis by Combined Surface and Dual Electronic Modulation
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Investigation of the Support Effect in Atomically Dispersed Pt on WO 3− x for Utilization of Pt in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
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Folic Acid Derived Bimetallic-Doped Hollow Carbon Nanostructures for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution
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IrO 2 and Pt Doped Mesoporous SnO 2 Nanospheres as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Facile OER and HER
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Low‐Dimensional Metal‐Organic Frameworks and their Diverse Functional Roles in Catalysis
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Hollow Bimetallic Zinc Cobalt Phosphosulfides for Efficient Overall Water Splitting
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Dinitrosyl iron complexes: From molecular electrocatalysts to electrodeposited‐film electrodes for hydrogen evolution reaction
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Two Synthesis Methods for Fe(III)@MOF‐5‐derived Porous Carbon Composites for Enhanced Phenol Hydroxylation
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Graphdiyne-Supported NiCo 2 S 4 Nanowires: A Highly Active and Stable 3D Bifunctional Electrode Material
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Synthesis of Hierarchical 4H/fcc Ru Nanotubes for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Media
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3D Interdigitated Microsupercapacitors with Record Areal Cell Capacitance
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Dopamine-assisted synthesis of rGO@NiPd@NC sandwich structure for highly efficient hydrogen evolution reaction
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Atomic-scale Pt clusters decorated on porous α-Ni(OH)2 nanowires as highly efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction
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Highly efficient hydrogen evolution from seawater by a low-cost and stable CoMoP@C electrocatalyst superior to Pt/C
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Tin nanoparticles decorated copper oxide nanowires for selective electrochemical reduction of aqueous CO 2 to CO
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An interfacial engineering approach towards two-dimensional porous carbon hybrids for high performance energy storage and conversion
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Direct deposition of MoSe 2 nanocrystals onto conducting substrates: towards ultra-efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution
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Conducting polymer nanofiber-supported Pt alloys: unprecedented materials for methanol oxidation with enhanced electrocatalytic performance and stability
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Amination of 1-hexanol on bimetallic AuPd/TiO 2 catalysts
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Quasi-single-crystalline CoO hexagrams with abundant defects for highly efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation
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On the role of hydroxide species in sulphur- and nitrogen-doped cobalt-based carbon catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction
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3D nanoporous Ni/V 2 O 3 hybrid nanoplate assemblies for highly efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution
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Transition metal modification and carbon vacancy promoted Cr 2 CO 2 (MXenes): a new opportunity for a highly active catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction
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A substrate-free Mo 2 C-based electrocatalyst by facile glucose-blowing for efficient hydrogen production
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Rational construction of macroporous CoFeP triangular plate arrays from bimetal–organic frameworks as high-performance overall water-splitting catalysts
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Screening alloy electrocatalysts by combining magnetron sputtering and scanning electrochemical microscopy
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Enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction on hybrids of cobalt phosphide and molybdenum phosphide
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Enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction catalyzed by carbon‐rich Mo 4.8 Si 3 C 0.6 /C/SiC nanocomposites via a PDC approach
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Copper (0) Doping Makes Cobalt-Nickel Hydroxide a High-Efficiency Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
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3D Self-Supported Fe-Doped Ni 2 P Nanosheet Arrays as Bifunctional Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting
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A Perovskite Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
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Unconventional Nickel Nitride Enriched with Nitrogen Vacancies as a High-Efficiency Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution
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Silica-Polypyrrole Hybrids as High-Performance Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Neutral Media
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3D Hierarchical Porous Mo 2 C for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution
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Ru nanodendrites composed of ultrathin fcc/hcp nanoblades for the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline solutions
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Multiscale porous molybdenum phosphide of honeycomb structure for highly efficient hydrogen evolution
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Decorating WSe 2 nanosheets with ultrafine Ru nanoparticles for boosting electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution in alkaline electrolytes
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High loading accessible active sites via designable 3D-printed metal architecture towards promoting electrocatalytic performance
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Catalyst design by scanning probe block copolymer lithography
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One-pot synthesis of in situ carbon-decorated Cu 3 P particles with enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution performance
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Unconventional Nickel Nitride Enriched with Nitrogen Vacancies as a High-Efficiency Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution
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Quasi-single-crystalline CoO hexagrams with abundant defects for highly efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation
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Enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction on hybrids of cobalt phosphide and molybdenum phosphide
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