Novel Bifunctional Nitrogen Doped MoS2/COF-C4N Vertical Heterostructures for Electrocatalytic HER and OER

Autor: Nan Zhang, Zhaodi Yang, Wenshan Liu, Fengming Zhang, Hong Yan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Catalysts, Vol 13, Iss 1, p 90 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4344
DOI: 10.3390/catal13010090
Popis: Highly active and earth-abundant catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) play vital roles in developing efficient water splitting to produce hydrogen fuels. Here, we reported an effective strategy to fabricate a completely new nitrogen-doped MoS2/COF-C4N vertical heterojunction (N-MoS2/COF-C4N) as precious-metal-free bifunctional electrocatalysts for both HER and OER. Compared with MoS2 and COF-C4N, the obtained vertical N-MoS2/COF-C4N catalyst showed enhanced HER with a low overpotential of 106 mV at 10 mA cm−2, which is six times lower than MoS2. The superior acidic HER activity, molecular mechanism, and charge transfer characteristic of this vertical N-MoS2/COF-C4N were investigated experimentally and theoretically in detail. Its basic OER activity is almost equal to that of COF-C4N with an overpotential of 349 mV at 10 mA cm−2, which showed that the in-situ growing method maintains the exposure of the C active sites to the greatest extent. The preparation and investigation for vertical N-MoS2/COF-C4N provide ideas and a research basis for us to further explore promising overall water-splitting electrocatalysts.
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