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Boron triggers the phase transformation of MoxC (α-MoC1-x/β-Mo2C) for enhanced hydrogen production
Zijian Chen1, Ting Guo1, Zhuangzhi Wu1
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
As highly efficient non-precious metal-based catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), molybdenum carbides have attracted much attention over the phase and structure modification for the improvement of HER performances. In this work, a novel strategy is proposed to modulate phases of molybdenum carbides by boron doping, so that the HER performances can be well controlled. After B-doping, the HER activity of the as-prepared B30 catalyst is significantly enhanced with a much smaller Tafel slope of 78 mV dec-1than that of the blank one (134 mV dec-1), which originates from the increased amount of active sites, enhanced turnover frequency of each active site and reduced electron transfer resistance. Moreover, this work could broaden our view of phase regulation and provide more possible perspectives for the application in other fields.
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