Identifying Catalytic Active Sites of Trimolybdenum Phosphide (Mo3P) for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution
Abstract
Abstract Solid‐state electrocatalysis plays a crucial role in the development of renewable energy to reshape current and future energy needs. However, finding an inexpensive and highly active catalyst to replace precious metals remains a big challenge for this technology. Here, tri‐molybdenum phosphide (Mo 3 P) is found as a promising nonprecious metal and earth‐abundant candidate with outstanding catalytic properties that can be used for electrocatalytic processes. The catalytic performance of Mo 3 P nanoparticles is tested in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The results indicate an onset potential of as low as 21 mV, H 2 formation rate, and exchange current density of 214.7 µmol s −1 g −1 cat (at only 100 mV overpotential) and 279.07 µA cm −2 , respectively, which are among the closest values yet observed to platinum. Combined atomic‐scale characterizations and computational studies confirm that high density of molybdenum (Mo) active sites at the surface with superior intrinsic electronic properties are mainly responsible for the remarkable HER performance. The density functional theory calculation results also confirm that the exceptional performance of Mo 3 P is due to neutral Gibbs free energy (Δ G H* ) of the hydrogen (H) adsorption at above 1/2 monolayer (ML)more »
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- Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Chicago, IL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1531000
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1510349
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; DMR-1420709; ECCS-1542205; JEM-ARM200CF; DMR-0959470; DMR-1720139; DEAC02‐05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Solid-state electrocatalysis; Tri-molybdenum phosphide; Non-precious metals; Active sites; Hydrogen evolution reaction
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Kondori, Alireza, Esmaeilirad, Mohammadreza, Baskin, Artem, Song, Boao, Wei, Jialiang, Chen, Wei, Segre, Carlo U., Shahbazian‐Yassar, Reza, Prendergast, David, and Asadi, Mohammad. Identifying Catalytic Active Sites of Trimolybdenum Phosphide (Mo3P) for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201900516.
Kondori, Alireza, Esmaeilirad, Mohammadreza, Baskin, Artem, Song, Boao, Wei, Jialiang, Chen, Wei, Segre, Carlo U., Shahbazian‐Yassar, Reza, Prendergast, David, & Asadi, Mohammad. Identifying Catalytic Active Sites of Trimolybdenum Phosphide (Mo3P) for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201900516
Kondori, Alireza, Esmaeilirad, Mohammadreza, Baskin, Artem, Song, Boao, Wei, Jialiang, Chen, Wei, Segre, Carlo U., Shahbazian‐Yassar, Reza, Prendergast, David, and Asadi, Mohammad. Thu .
"Identifying Catalytic Active Sites of Trimolybdenum Phosphide (Mo3P) for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201900516. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1531000.
@article{osti_1531000,
title = {Identifying Catalytic Active Sites of Trimolybdenum Phosphide (Mo3P) for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution},
author = {Kondori, Alireza and Esmaeilirad, Mohammadreza and Baskin, Artem and Song, Boao and Wei, Jialiang and Chen, Wei and Segre, Carlo U. and Shahbazian‐Yassar, Reza and Prendergast, David and Asadi, Mohammad},
abstractNote = {Abstract Solid‐state electrocatalysis plays a crucial role in the development of renewable energy to reshape current and future energy needs. However, finding an inexpensive and highly active catalyst to replace precious metals remains a big challenge for this technology. Here, tri‐molybdenum phosphide (Mo 3 P) is found as a promising nonprecious metal and earth‐abundant candidate with outstanding catalytic properties that can be used for electrocatalytic processes. The catalytic performance of Mo 3 P nanoparticles is tested in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The results indicate an onset potential of as low as 21 mV, H 2 formation rate, and exchange current density of 214.7 µmol s −1 g −1 cat (at only 100 mV overpotential) and 279.07 µA cm −2 , respectively, which are among the closest values yet observed to platinum. Combined atomic‐scale characterizations and computational studies confirm that high density of molybdenum (Mo) active sites at the surface with superior intrinsic electronic properties are mainly responsible for the remarkable HER performance. The density functional theory calculation results also confirm that the exceptional performance of Mo 3 P is due to neutral Gibbs free energy (Δ G H* ) of the hydrogen (H) adsorption at above 1/2 monolayer (ML) coverage of the (110) surface, exceeding the performance of existing non‐noble metal catalysts for HER.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201900516},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 22,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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