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Title: A porous proton-relaying metal-organic framework material that accelerates electrochemical hydrogen evolution

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9304· OSTI ID:1258602
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  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center
  2. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  3. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
  4. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center; National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
  5. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  6. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center
  7. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center; King Abdulaziz Univ., Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)

The availability of efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts is of high importance for solar fuel technologies aimed at reducing future carbon emissions. Even though Pt electrodes are excellent HER electrocatalysts, commercialization of large-scale hydrogen production technology requires finding an equally efficient, low-cost, earth-abundant alternative. Here, high porosity, metal-organic framework (MOF) films have been used as scaffolds for the deposition of a Ni-S electrocatalyst. Compared with an MOF-free Ni-S, the resulting hybrid materials exhibit significantly enhanced performance for HER from aqueous acid, decreasing the kinetic overpotential by more than 200 mV at a benchmark current density of 10 mA cm-2. In conclusion, although the initial aim was to improve electrocatalytic activity by greatly boosting the active area of the Ni-S catalyst, the performance enhancements instead were found to arise primarily from the ability of the proton-conductive MOF to favourably modify the immediate chemical environment of the sulfide-based catalyst.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001059
OSTI ID:
1258602
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 197 works
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