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Wenwu Zhong1, Zongpeng Wang1, Nan Gao1
1School of Pharmaceutical and Materials Engineering, Taizhou University, No. 1139, Shifu Road, Taizhou, 318000, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Vacancy engineering plays vital role in the design of high-performance electrocatalysts. Here, we introduced coupled cation-vacancy pairs in Ni-doped CoSe to achieve boosted hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity through a facile topochemical intercalation approach. Adjacent Co vacancy pairs and heteroatom Ni doping contribute together for the upshift of the Se 4pz orbital, which induces larger overlap between the Se 4p and H 1s orbitals. As a result, the free energy of H adsorption can be lowered significantly. With an advanced HER activity of 185.7 mV at 10 mA cm-2 , this work provides new direction and guidance for the design of novel electrocatalysts.
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