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Interface Engineering of MoS 2 /Ni 3 S 2 Heterostructures for Highly Enhanced Electrochemical Overall‐Water‐Splitting Activity
Author(s) -
Zhang Jian,
Wang Tao,
Pohl Darius,
Rellinghaus Bernd,
Dong Renhao,
Liu Shaohua,
Zhuang Xiaodong,
Feng Xinliang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201602237
Subject(s) - overpotential , oxygen evolution , water splitting , heterojunction , electrochemistry , bifunctional , catalysis , materials science , electrolysis of water , electrolysis , hydrogen production , chemical engineering , chemisorption , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , electrode , photocatalysis , biochemistry , engineering , electrolyte
To achieve sustainable production of H 2 fuel through water splitting, low‐cost electrocatalysts for the hydrogen‐evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen‐evolution reaction (OER) are required to replace Pt and IrO 2 catalysts. Herein, for the first time, we present the interface engineering of novel MoS 2 /Ni 3 S 2 heterostructures, in which abundant interfaces are formed. For OER, such MoS 2 /Ni 3 S 2 heterostructures show an extremely low overpotential of ca. 218 mV at 10 mA cm −2 , which is superior to that of the state‐of‐the‐art OER electrocatalysts. Using MoS 2 /Ni 3 S 2 heterostructures as bifunctional electrocatalysts, an alkali electrolyzer delivers a current density of 10 mA cm −2 at a very low cell voltage of ca. 1.56 V. In combination with DFT calculations, this study demonstrates that the constructed interfaces synergistically favor the chemisorption of hydrogen and oxygen‐containing intermediates, thus accelerating the overall electrochemical water splitting.