过电位
纳米材料基催化剂
电催化剂
纳米材料
催化作用
材料科学
纳米技术
密度泛函理论
化学工程
相(物质)
合金
纳米颗粒
电化学
物理化学
化学
计算化学
有机化学
冶金
电极
工程类
作者
Juntao Zhang,Jia‐Bo Le,Yuanting Dong,Lingzheng Bu,Ying Zhang,Jun Cheng,Leigang Li,Xiaoqing Huang
标识
DOI:10.1007/s11426-021-1112-2
摘要
Ruthenium (Ru) is one of the most promising metals for its versatility in driving a wide range of catalytic reactions. However, owing to the intrinsic preference of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) phase for bulk Ru, currently, it is still challenging to construct Ru-based nanomaterials with face-centered-cubic (fcc) phase for optimizing their performance towards potential applications. Herein, we report a facile wet-chemical method to directly create unconventional fcc-structured Ru-copper hollow urchin-like nanospheres (fcc-RuCu HUNSs) as a class of efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalyst. Interestingly, this synthetic strategy can be expanded to prepare other fcc-Ru-based alloy nanomaterials. Significantly, the novel fcc-RuCu HUNSs exhibit superior HER performance with the overpotential of only 25, 34, 40, and 26 mV to reach the current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 0.5 M H2SO4, 0.05 M H2SO4, 0.1 M KOH, and 1 M KOH, respectively, much lower than those of hcp-RuCu HUNSs and commercial Pt/C. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations further indicate that their excellent pH-universal HER performance results from the optimized adsorption free energy of H and work functions. Our work highlights the importance of phase control to design high-efficiency nanocatalysts for relevant catalytic reactions in energy conversion.
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