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Meijia Yang1, You Zhang1, Junhua Jian1
1Key Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer-based Composites of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
Abstract:
A combined surface and dual electronic modulation strategy is used to realize metal-free all-pH catalysis towards the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) by coupling a N-doped carbon framework (MHCF, electron acceptors) derived from MOFs with higher-Fermi-level pure carbon nanotubes (CNTs, electron donors), followed by surface modification with carboxyl-group-rich polymers. Although the three constituents are inactive, as-assembled ternary membranes yield superior HER performance with low overpotentials and high durability (≤5 % activity loss over 100 h) at all pH values. The C adjacent to pyrrolic N in MHCF is the most active site and the induced directional interfacial electron transfer from CNTs to MHCF coupled with N-driven intramolecular electron transfer in MHCF optimizes Gibbs free energy for hydrogen adsorption (ΔGH* ) near zero, while the polymer modulation enables local H+ enrichment in acidic media and enhanced water adsorption and activation in neutral and basic media.
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