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First-principles Density Functional Theory Elucidation of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on TM-promoted TiC2 (TM=Fe,
Hengquan Guo1, Sung Gu Kang2, Seung Geol Lee1,3
1School of Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, 2, Busandaehak-ro 63 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, 46241, Republic of, Korea.
Abstract:
Single-atom-catalyst-based systems have been attractive by virtue of their desirable catalytic performance. Herein, the possibility of the 15 transition-metal (TM)-promoted (TM=Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, and Hg) and their hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance were investigated on two-dimensional titanium carbides (TiC2 ). It is found that the adsorption strength of TMs on TiC2 is stronger than that of TMs on γ-graphyne and weaker than that of TMs on Ti3 C2 . Among the fifteen investigated catalysts, Ru-TiC2 , Ag-TiC2 , Ir-TiC2 , Au-TiC2 , and Fe-TiC2 exhibits overpotential of -0.18, -0.15, -0.18, -0.17, and -0.04 V, respectively. In addition, the Volmer-Tafel step was preferred to the Volmer-Heyrovsky step on Fe-TiC2 . This work suggests that Fe-TiC2 is possibly a superior HER electrocatalyst.
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