A General Route to Prepare Low-Ruthenium-Content Bimetallic Electrocatalysts for pH-Universal Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Using Carbon Quantum Dots

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Liu, Yuan
Li, Xue
Zhang, Qinghua
Li, Weidong
Xie, Yu
Liu, Hanyu
Shang, Lu
Liu, Zhongyi
Chen, Zhimin
Gu, Lin
Tang, Zhiyong
Zhang, Tierui
Lu, Siyu
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2019
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A challenging but pressing task to design and synthesize novel, efficient, and robust pH‐universal hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts for scalable and sustainable hydrogen production through electrochemical water splitting. Herein, we report a facile method to prepare an efficient and robust Ru‐M (M=Ni, Mn, Cu) bimetal nanoparticle and carbon quantum dot hybrid (RuM/CQDs) for pH‐universal HER. The RuNi/CQDs catalysts exhibit outstanding HER performance at all pH levels. The unexpected low overpotentials of 13, 58, and 18 mV shown by RuNi/CQDs allow a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 1 m KOH, 0.5 m H2SO4, and 1 m PBS, respectively, for Ru loading at 5.93 μgRu cm−2. This performance is among the best catalytic activities reported for any platinum‐free electrocatalyst. Theoretical studies reveal that Ni doping results in a moderate weakening of the hydrogen bonding energy of nearby surface Ru atoms, which plays a critical role in improving the HER activity.

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Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

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59

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4

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Liu, Y; Li, X; Zhang, Q; Li, W; Xie, Y; Liu, H; Shang, L; Liu, Z; Chen, Z; Gu, L; Tang, Z; Zhang, T; Lu, S, A General Route to Prepare Low-Ruthenium-Content Bimetallic Electrocatalysts for pH-Universal Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Using Carbon Quantum Dots, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2019, 59 (4), pp. 1718-1726

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