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Title: Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Abstract

Engineering catalytic sites at the atomic level provides an opportunity to understand the catalyst’s active sites, which is vital to the development of improved catalysts. Here we show a reliable and tunable polyoxometalate template-based synthetic strategy to atomically engineer metal doping sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2, using Anderson-type polyoxometalates as precursors. Benefiting from engineering nickel and oxygen atoms, the optimized electrocatalyst shows great enhancement in the hydrogen evolution reaction with a positive onset potential of ~ 0 V and a low overpotential of –46 mV in alkaline electrolyte, comparable to platinum-based catalysts. First-principles calculations reveal co-doping nickel and oxygen into 1T-MoS2 assists the process of water dissociation and hydrogen generation from their intermediate states. This research will expand on the ability to improve the activities of various catalysts by precisely engineering atomic activation sites to achieve significant electronic modulations and improve atomic utilization efficiencies.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [5];  [2];  [6];  [7];  [7];  [6];  [6];  [6];  [4];  [4]; ORCiD logo [2];  [6];  [7]
  1. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (People's Republic of China); San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. Jilin Univ., Changchun (People's Republic of China)
  3. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  5. Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI (United States)
  6. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (People's Republic of China)
  7. San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1506174
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; 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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Huang, Yichao, Sun, Yuanhui, Zheng, Xueli, Aoki, Toshihiro, Pattengale, Brian, Huang, Jier, He, Xin, Bian, Wei, Younan, Sabrina, Williams, Nicholas, Hu, Jun, Ge, Jingxuan, Pu, Ning, Yan, Xingxu, Pan, Xiaoqing, Zhang, Lijun, Wei, Yongge, and Gu, Jing. Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08877-9.
Huang, Yichao, Sun, Yuanhui, Zheng, Xueli, Aoki, Toshihiro, Pattengale, Brian, Huang, Jier, He, Xin, Bian, Wei, Younan, Sabrina, Williams, Nicholas, Hu, Jun, Ge, Jingxuan, Pu, Ning, Yan, Xingxu, Pan, Xiaoqing, Zhang, Lijun, Wei, Yongge, & Gu, Jing. Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08877-9
Huang, Yichao, Sun, Yuanhui, Zheng, Xueli, Aoki, Toshihiro, Pattengale, Brian, Huang, Jier, He, Xin, Bian, Wei, Younan, Sabrina, Williams, Nicholas, Hu, Jun, Ge, Jingxuan, Pu, Ning, Yan, Xingxu, Pan, Xiaoqing, Zhang, Lijun, Wei, Yongge, and Gu, Jing. Thu . "Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08877-9. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1506174.
@article{osti_1506174,
title = {Atomically engineering activation sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2 catalysts for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution},
author = {Huang, Yichao and Sun, Yuanhui and Zheng, Xueli and Aoki, Toshihiro and Pattengale, Brian and Huang, Jier and He, Xin and Bian, Wei and Younan, Sabrina and Williams, Nicholas and Hu, Jun and Ge, Jingxuan and Pu, Ning and Yan, Xingxu and Pan, Xiaoqing and Zhang, Lijun and Wei, Yongge and Gu, Jing},
abstractNote = {Engineering catalytic sites at the atomic level provides an opportunity to understand the catalyst’s active sites, which is vital to the development of improved catalysts. Here we show a reliable and tunable polyoxometalate template-based synthetic strategy to atomically engineer metal doping sites onto metallic 1T-MoS2, using Anderson-type polyoxometalates as precursors. Benefiting from engineering nickel and oxygen atoms, the optimized electrocatalyst shows great enhancement in the hydrogen evolution reaction with a positive onset potential of ~ 0 V and a low overpotential of –46 mV in alkaline electrolyte, comparable to platinum-based catalysts. First-principles calculations reveal co-doping nickel and oxygen into 1T-MoS2 assists the process of water dissociation and hydrogen generation from their intermediate states. This research will expand on the ability to improve the activities of various catalysts by precisely engineering atomic activation sites to achieve significant electronic modulations and improve atomic utilization efficiencies.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-08877-9},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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Fig. 2 Fig. 2: Structure characterizations of NiO@1T-MoS2. a SEM image, scale bar: 200 nm (inset: low magnification SEM image, scale bar: 5 μm). b TEM image (scale bar: 20 nm). c EDX mappings (scale bar: 1 μm). d High-angle annular dark-field (HAADF) STEM image (scale bar: 5 nm). e Aberration-corrected atomicmore » resolution HAADF-STEM image (scale bar: 0.5 nm). The white dotted hexagons show the NiMo6 units in NiO@1T-MoS2 (green: Mo; orange: Ni). f Intensity profiles along the lines indicated in image e« less

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