Active and Durable Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalyst Derived from Pd-Doped Metal-Organic Frameworks

Jitang Chen; Guoliang Xia; Peng Jiang; Yang Yang; Ren Li; Ruohong Shi; Jianwei Su; Qianwang Chen

doi:10.1021/acsami.6b01266

Active and Durable Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalyst Derived from Pd-Doped Metal-Organic Frameworks

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Jun 1;8(21):13378-83. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b01266. Epub 2016 May 19.

Authors

Jitang Chen¹, Guoliang Xia¹, Peng Jiang¹, Yang Yang¹, Ren Li¹, Ruohong Shi¹, Jianwei Su¹, Qianwang Chen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, Department of Materials Science & Engineering & Collaborative InnovationCenter of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, China.
² High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Hefei 230031, China.

PMID: 27112733
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01266

Abstract

The water electrolysis is of critical importance for sustainable hydrogen production. In this work, a highly efficient and stable PdCo alloy catalyst (PdCo@CN) was synthesized by direct annealing of Pd-doped metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) under N2 atmosphere. In 0.5 M H2SO4 solution, PdCo@CN displays remarkable electrocatalytic performance with overpotential of 80 mV, a Tafel slope of 31 mV dec(-1), and excellent stability of 10 000 cycles. Our studies reveal that noble metal doped MOFs are ideal precursors for preparing highly active alloy electrocatalysts with low content of noble metal.

Keywords: Pd-doped; alloy; electrocatalysis; hydrogen evolution reaction; metal−organic frameworks.