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Selenium‐Enriched Nickel Selenide Nanosheets as a Robust Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Generation
Authors:Fengmei Wang  Prof. Yuanchang Li  Tofik Ahmed Shifa  Kaili Liu  Feng Wang  Prof. Zhenxing Wang  Peng Xu  Qisheng Wang  Prof. Jun He
Affiliation:1. CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;3. National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China
Abstract:To address the urgent need for clean and sustainable energy, the rapid development of hydrogen‐based technologies has started to revolutionize the use of earth‐abundant noble‐metal‐free catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Like the active sites of hydrogenases, the cation sites of pyrite‐type transition‐metal dichalcogenides have been suggested to be active in the HER. Herein, we synthesized electrodes based on a Se‐enriched NiSe2 nanosheet array and explored the relationship between the anion sites and the improved hydrogen evolution activity through theoretical and experimental studies. The free energy for atomic hydrogen adsorption is much lower on the Se sites (0.13 eV) than on the Ni sites (0.87 eV). Notably, this electrode benefits from remarkable kinetic properties, with a small overpotential of 117 mV at 10 mA cm?2, a low Tafel slope of 32 mV per decade, and excellent stability. Control experiments showed that the efficient conversion of H+ into H2 is due to the presence of an excess of selenium in the NiSe2 nanosheet surface.
Keywords:chalcogenides  electrocatalysis  hydrogen evolution reaction  nickel  selenium
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