Plasma-assisted nitrogen doping in Ni–Co–P hollow nanocubes for efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (25) ◽  
pp. 13708-13718
Author(s):  
Qiaomei Luo ◽  
Yiwei Zhao ◽  
Yuyang Qi ◽  
Hongqiang Xin ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
...  

Plasma-assisted nitrogen doped Ni–Co–P hollow nanocubes were fabricated. Both theoretical and experimental results proved the enhancement of catalytic activity for HER, owing to the synergistic effects of versatile hollow structure and N doping.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 5668-5675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Sheng Cheng ◽  
Xin-Ping Chu ◽  
Min Ling ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Kong-Lin Wu ◽  
...  

N-doping carbon and copper derived from benzimidazole-modified Cu-BTC MOFs have synergistic effects on selective CO2 electroreduction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (86) ◽  
pp. 12753-12756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zonghua Pu ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
Zongkui Kou ◽  
Ibrahim Saana Amiinu ◽  
Shichun Mu

Mo2C QDs/NGCLs exhibit high catalytic activity and durability for the hydrogen evolution reaction in a broad pH range.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 912
Author(s):  
Duong Nguyen Nguyen ◽  
Uk Sim ◽  
Jung Kyu Kim

Hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER) is a promising technology for renewable energy conversion and storage. Electrochemical HER can provide a cost-effective method for the clean production of hydrogen. In this study, a biomimetic eco-friendly approach to fabricate nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets, exhibiting a high HER performance, and using a carbonized polydopamine (C-PDA), is described. As a biopolymer, polydopamine (PDA) exhibits high biocompatibility and can be easily obtained by an environmentally benign green synthesis with dopamine. Inspired by the polymerization of dopamine, we have devised the facile synthesis of nitrogen-doped nanocarbons using a carbonized polydopamine for the HER in acidic media. The N-doped nanocarbons exhibit excellent performance for H2 generation. The required overpotential at 5 mA/cm2 is 130 mV, and the Tafel slope is 45 mV/decade. Experimental characterizations confirm that the excellent performance of the N-doped nanocarbons can be attributed to the multisite nitrogen doping, while theoretical computations indicate the promotion effect of tertiary/aromatic nitrogen doping in enhancing the spin density of the doped samples and consequently in forming highly electroactive sites for HER applications.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 10574-10583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitri A. Bulushev ◽  
Andrey L. Chuvilin ◽  
Vladimir I. Sobolev ◽  
Svetlana G. Stolyarova ◽  
Yury V. Shubin ◽  
...  

N-doping of carbon support prevents sintering of Cu and provides its high catalytic activity in H2 formation from formic acid.


Author(s):  
Ryan O’Hayre ◽  
Yingke Zhou ◽  
Robert Pasquarelli ◽  
Joe Berry ◽  
David Ginley

This study experimentally examines the enhancement of carbon supported Pt-based catalysts systems via nitrogen doping. It has been reported that nitrogen-containing carbons promote significant enhancement in Pt/C catalyst activity and durability with respect to the methanol oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions. In order to systematically investigate the effect of N-doping, in this work we have developed geometrically well-defined model catalytic systems consisting of tunable assemblies of Pt catalyst nanoparticles deposited onto both N-doped and undoped highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) substrates. N-doping was achieved via ion beam implantation, and Pt was electrodeposited from solutions of H2PtCl6 in aqueous HClO4. Morphology from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and catalytic activity measurement from aqueous electrochemical analysis were utilized to examine the N-doping effects. The results strongly support the theory that doping nitrogen into a graphite support significantly affects both the morphology and behavior of the overlying Pt nanoparticles. In particular, nitrogen-doping was observed to cause a significant decrease in the average Pt nanoparticle size, an increase in the Pt nanoparticle dispersion, and a significant increase in catalytic activity for both methanol oxidation and oxygen reduction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 8383-8396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taohong He ◽  
Xiaoshan Zeng ◽  
Shaopeng Rong

N atoms were selectively doped at substitutional or interstitial sites in the MnO2 lattice using N2 plasma. This research provides a site-selective N-doping method and a deep insight into the different effects of doping sites.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (56) ◽  
pp. 34323-34332
Author(s):  
Junpeng Fan ◽  
Joakim Ekspong ◽  
Anumol Ashok ◽  
Sergey Koroidov ◽  
Eduardo Gracia-Espino

Production of nanostructured cobalt-doped MoS2 flakes with the CoMoS phase by microwave irradiation with improved catalytic activity towards hydrogen evolution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Wassner ◽  
Markus Eckardt ◽  
Andreas Reyer ◽  
Thomas Diemant ◽  
Michael S Elsaesser ◽  
...  

Amorphous and graphitized nitrogen-doped (N-doped) carbon spheres are investigated as structurally well-defined model systems to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between synthesis, structure, and their activity in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). N-doped carbon spheres were synthesized by hydrothermal treatment of a glucose solution yielding carbon spheres with sizes of 330 ± 50 nm, followed by nitrogen doping via heat treatment in ammonia atmosphere. The influence of a) varying the nitrogen doping temperature (550–1000 °C) and b) of a catalytic graphitization prior to nitrogen doping on the carbon sphere morphology, structure, elemental composition, N bonding configuration as well as porosity is investigated in detail. For the N-doped carbon spheres, the maximum nitrogen content was found at a doping temperature of 700 °C, with a decrease of the N content for higher temperatures. The overall nitrogen content of the graphitized N-doped carbon spheres is lower than that of the amorphous carbon spheres, however, also the microporosity decreases strongly with graphitization. Comparison with the electrocatalytic behavior in the ORR shows that in addition to the N-doping, the microporosity of the materials is critical for an efficient ORR.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 16879-16888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Anh Le ◽  
Quoc Viet Bui ◽  
Ngoc Quang Tran ◽  
Yunhee Cho ◽  
Yeseul Hong ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (30) ◽  
pp. 17862-17868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Xiaoping Gao ◽  
Jingyan Zhang ◽  
Daqiang Gao

The reasonable design that N-doping and in situ reduced Ru metal enhances the performance of N-RuS2/Ru for HER.


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