Nb2Se2C: a new compound as a combination of transition metal dichalcogenide and MXene for oxygen evolution reaction

Xin Pang; Tong Wu; Yuhao Gu; Dong Wang; Xiangli Che; Du Sun; Fuqiang Huang

doi:10.1039/d0cc03282d

Nb₂Se₂C: a new compound as a combination of transition metal dichalcogenide and MXene for oxygen evolution reaction

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Aug 6;56(63):9036-9039. doi: 10.1039/d0cc03282d.

Authors

Xin Pang¹, Tong Wu¹, Yuhao Gu², Dong Wang³, Xiangli Che³, Du Sun³, Fuqiang Huang⁴

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China. huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
² The Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
³ State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China. huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China. huangfq@mail.sic.ac.cn and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.

PMID: 32643719
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc03282d

Abstract

Transition metal dichalcogenides and carbonitrides (TMDs and MXenes) have attracted great attention in electrochemistry due to their tunable electronic structures. Herein, a new compound of Nb2Se2C is designed as a "TMD-MXene"-like material. It exhibits better oxygen evolution reaction performance than most other reported TMDs, MXenes, and commercial electrocatalysts due to the enriched active sites and excellent conductivity.