Amorphous Ru nanoclusters onto Co-doped 1D carbon nanocages enables efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(21)63921-9

Abstract

Abstract:

The development of high-performance electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is of great significance for green, sustainable, and renewable energy conversion. Herein, we report the synthesis of amorphous Ru clusters on Co-doped defect-rich hollow carbon nanocage (a-Ru@Co-DHC) as an efficient electrocatalyst for HER in the basic media. Due to the advantages such as high surface area, rich edge defect, atomic Co doping and amorphous Ru clusters, the as-made a-Ru@Co-DHC displays an efficient HER performance with a near-zero onset overpotential, a low Tafel slope (62 mV dec^-1), a low overpotential of 40 mV at 10 mA cm^-2 and high stability, outperforming the commercial Ru nanocrystal/C, commercial Pt/C, and other reported Ru-based catalysts. This work provides a new insight into designing new metal doped carbon nanocages catalysts supported by amorphous nanoclusters for achieving the enhanced electrocatalysis.

Key words: Amorphous Ru cluster, Single atom, Defect-rich carbon, Hydrogen evolution reaction, Electrocatalysis

Wenxiu Yang, Weiyu Zhang, Rui Liu, Fan Lv, Yuguang Chao, Zichen Wang, Shaojun Guo. Amorphous Ru nanoclusters onto Co-doped 1D carbon nanocages enables efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2022, 43(1): 110-115.

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Scheme 1. Schematic illustration of the preparation procedure of the a-Ru@Co-DHC material.

Fig. 1. Characterization of the a-Ru@Co-DHC material. XRD (a), SEM (b), TEM (c,d) images of a-Ru@Co-DHC. The inset of Fig. 1(d) is the SAED pattern of a-Ru@Co-DHC. HRTEM (e) and HAADF-STEM (f) images of a-Ru@Co-DHC; (g) HAADF-STEM images and the corresponding EDS mapping of a-Ru@Co-DHC (C green, O purple, N blue, Co yellow, and Ru orange).

Fig. 2. Compositional and structural information of the a-Ru@Co-DHC material. (a) XPS spectrum; (b) high-resolution C 1s and Ru 3d; (c) high-resolution N 1s; (d) Raman; (e) nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms; (f) its pore distribution.

Fig. 3. Ru K-edge XANES spectra (a) and the K3-weighted FT-EXAFS spectra (b) of Ru foil, RuO2 and a-Ru@Co-DHC. Co K-edge XANES spectra (c) and the K3-weighted FT-EXAFS (d) of Co foil, CoPc and a-Ru@Co-DHC.

Fig. 4. Electrocatalytic activities of different materials in 1.0 M KOH solution. HER polarization curves (a), corresponding Tafel plots (b), overpotentials at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 (c), and mass activities (d) for the a-Ru@DHC, a-Ru@Co-DHC, commercial Ru/C and commercial Pt/C catalysts; (e) Polarization curves of a-Ru@Co-DHC recorded before and after 5000 cycles; (f) Chronopotentiometry measurements of the a-Ru@Co-DHC catalyst at current density of 10 mA cm-2; (g) Comparison of HER catalytic performance for a-Ru@Co-DHC with other reported Ru-based catalysts in alkaline media (1.0 M KOH) [39-47].

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