Unifying the Hydrogen Evolution and Oxidation Reactions Kinetics in Base by Identifying the Catalytic Roles of Hydroxyl-Water-Cation Adducts

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (7) ◽  
pp. 3232-3239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ershuai Liu ◽  
Jingkun Li ◽  
Li Jiao ◽  
Huong Thi Thanh Doan ◽  
Zeyan Liu ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofang Yang ◽  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Yao-Wen Yeh ◽  
Rachel S. Selinsky ◽  
Zhu Chen ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol MA2020-01 (37) ◽  
pp. 1563-1563
Author(s):  
G. Hernández-Vázquez ◽  
S. Dessources ◽  
Ivonne Liliana Alonso-Lemus ◽  
Beatriz Escobar-Morales ◽  
F.J. Rodríguez-Varela

2000 ◽  
Vol 480 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Brisard ◽  
N Bertrand ◽  
P.N Ross ◽  
N.M Marković

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ershuai Liu ◽  
Jingkun Li ◽  
Li Jiao ◽  
Huong Thi Thanh Doan ◽  
Zeyan Liu ◽  
...  

Despite the fundamental and practical significance of the hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions (HER/HOR), their kinetics in base remain unclear. Herein, we show that the alkaline HER/HOR kinetics can be unified by the catalytic roles of the adsorbed hydroxyl (OH<sub>ad</sub>)-water-alkali metal cation (AM<sup>+</sup>) adducts, on the basis of the observations that enriching the OH<sub>ad</sub> abundance via surface Ni benefits the HER/HOR; increasing the AM<sup>+</sup> concentration only promotes the HER while varying the identity of AM<sup>+</sup> affects both HER/HOR. The presence of OH<sub>ad</sub>-(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>x</sub>-AM<sup>+</sup> in the double layer region facilitates the OH<sub>ad</sub> removal into the bulk forming OH<sup>-</sup>-(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>x</sub>-AM<sup>+</sup> <i>as per</i> the hard-soft acid-base (HSAB) theory, thereby selectively promoting the HER. It can be detrimental to the HOR <i>as per</i> the bifunctional mechanism as the AM<sup>+</sup> destabilizes the OH<sub>ad</sub>, which is further supported by the CO oxidation results. This new notion may be important for alkaline electrochemistry.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingying Jia ◽  
Ershuai Liu ◽  
Li Jiao ◽  
Jingkun Li ◽  
Sanjeev Mukerjee

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