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Vol. 16 (2024)

Precisely Control Relationship between Sulfur Vacancy and H Absorption for Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01291-3
Jing Jin
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Xinyao Wang
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Yang Hu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Zhuang Zhang
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Hongbo Liu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Jie Yin
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China
Pinxian Xi
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Pinxian Xi

xipx@lzu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 16 (2024), Article Number: 63

Abstract

Effective and robust catalyst is the core of water splitting to produce hydrogen. Here, we report an anionic etching method to tailor the sulfur vacancy (VS) of NiS2 to further enhance the electrocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). With the VS concentration change from 2.4% to 8.5%, the H* adsorption strength on S sites changed and NiS2-VS 5.9% shows the most optimized H* adsorption for HER with an ultralow onset potential (68 mV) and has long-term stability for 100 h in 1 M KOH media. In situ attenuated-total-reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIRS) measurements are usually used to monitor the adsorption of intermediates. The S- H* peak of the NiS2-VS 5.9% appears at a very low voltage, which is favorable for the HER in alkaline media. Density functional theory calculations also demonstrate the NiS2-VS 5.9% has the optimal |ΔGH*| of 0.17 eV. This work offers a simple and promising pathway to enhance catalytic activity via precise vacancies strategy.


Highlights:
1 The Ar plasma etching strategy was introduced to homogeneously distributed S-vacancies (VS) into the NiS2 nanosheets (NiS2-VS).
2 Build the relationship between sulfur vacancy and H absorption and find that NiS2-VS 5.9% performs outstanding hydrogen evolution reaction performance and remarkable stability.

Keywords

Hydrogen evolution reaction S vacancies Nanosheet H Adsorption
Jin, Jing, Xinyao Wang, Yang Hu, Zhuang Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Jie Yin, and Pinxian Xi. 2024. “Precisely Control Relationship Between Sulfur Vacancy and H Absorption for Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”. Nano-Micro Letters 16 (January):63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01291-3.
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