Fabrication of W nanodot and Nitrogen Co-decorated Carbon Skeleton for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Fabrication of W nanodot and Nitrogen Co-decorated Carbon Skeleton for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Автор: Yange Wang, Yechen Wang, Jing Bai, Sibin Duan, Rongming Wang, Woon-Ming Lau

Журнал: Nanotechnologies in Construction: A Scientific Internet-Journal @nanobuild-en

Рубрика: The results of the specialists’ and scientists’ researches

Статья в выпуске: 6 Vol.14, 2022 года.

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Metal dots-nitrogen-carbon catalysts have become a hot topic in recent years because of special coordination environment. Herein, for the study the W nanodots and nitrogen co-decorated carbon skeleton (W@NC) was prepared for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). In particular, NaCl templates not only restrict the growth of nanodots, but also improve the purity of phase. By optimizing the feeding ratio of ammonium metatungstate, W nanodots (the size is about 1.2 ± 0.6 nm) dispersed well on N-doped C skeleton, and this special structure could effectively promote electron transfer and ion diffusion during HER process. As a result, the optimized W@NC hybrids exhibited excellent HER performance in alkaline media with a rather low over-potential (228 mV at 10 mA cm–2) and outstanding durability over 10 h.

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W nanodots, N-doped carbon skeleton, NaCl template, Freeze-drying, Hydrogen evolution reaction

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/142235785

IDR: 142235785   |   DOI: 10.15828/2075-8545-2022-14-6-455-465

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