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Interfacial engineering of 3D hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction

Show Author's Information Lili Zhang1,  Yuanting Lei1,  Danni Zhou2,  Chengli Xiong1,  Zhuoli Jiang3,  Xinyuan Li3,  Huishan Shang1( ),  Yafei Zhao1,  Wenxing Chen2( ),  Bing Zhang1
School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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hydrogen evolution reaction, pH-universal, transition metal selenides, core@shell heterostructure
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Rational design and construction of low-cost and highly efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is meaningful but challenging. Herein, a robust three dimensional (3D) hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure (CoSe2@MoSe2) is proposed as an efficient HER electrocatalyst through interfacial engineering. Benefitting from the abundant heterogeneous interfaces on CoSe2@MoSe2, the exposed edge active sites are maximized and the charge transfer at the hetero-interfaces is accelerated, thus facilitating the HER kinetics. It exhibits remarkable performance in pH-universal conditions. Notably, it only needs an overpotential (η10) of 108 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm−2 in 1.0 M KOH, outperforming most of the reported transition metal selenides electrocatalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations unveil that the heterointerfaces synergistically optimize the Gibbs free energies of H2O and H* during alkaline HER, accelerating the reaction kinetics. The present work may provide new construction guidance for rational design of high-efficient electrocatalysts.


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Interfacial engineering of 3D hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction

Show Author's information Lili Zhang1, Yuanting Lei1, Danni Zhou2, Chengli Xiong1, Zhuoli Jiang3, Xinyuan Li3, Huishan Shang1( ), Yafei Zhao1, Wenxing Chen2( ), Bing Zhang1
School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Abstract

Rational design and construction of low-cost and highly efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is meaningful but challenging. Herein, a robust three dimensional (3D) hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure (CoSe2@MoSe2) is proposed as an efficient HER electrocatalyst through interfacial engineering. Benefitting from the abundant heterogeneous interfaces on CoSe2@MoSe2, the exposed edge active sites are maximized and the charge transfer at the hetero-interfaces is accelerated, thus facilitating the HER kinetics. It exhibits remarkable performance in pH-universal conditions. Notably, it only needs an overpotential (η10) of 108 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm−2 in 1.0 M KOH, outperforming most of the reported transition metal selenides electrocatalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations unveil that the heterointerfaces synergistically optimize the Gibbs free energies of H2O and H* during alkaline HER, accelerating the reaction kinetics. The present work may provide new construction guidance for rational design of high-efficient electrocatalysts.

Keywords: hydrogen evolution reaction, pH-universal, transition metal selenides, core@shell heterostructure

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Received: 15 July 2021
Revised: 14 September 2021
Accepted: 15 September 2021
Published: 06 November 2021
Issue date: April 2022

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1804140, U20041100 and 21801015) for support. This work is also supported by Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars (No. 3090012221909). The authors thank BL10B and BL12B in the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) for help with characterizations.

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