Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution using amorphous tungsten phosphide nanoparticles.

Autor: McEnaney JM; Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. schaak@chem.psu.edu., Crompton JC, Callejas JF, Popczun EJ, Read CG, Lewis NS, Schaak RE
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2014 Sep 28; Vol. 50 (75), pp. 11026-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Aug 06.
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc04709e
Abstrakt: Amorphous tungsten phosphide (WP), which has been synthesized as colloidal nanoparticles with an average diameter of 3 nm, has been identified as a new electrocatalyst for the hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER) in acidic aqueous solutions. WP/Ti electrodes produced current densities of -10 mA cm(-2) and -20 mA cm(-2) at overpotentials of only -120 mV and -140 mV, respectively, in 0.50 M H2SO4(aq).
Databáze: MEDLINE