• 文献标题:   N-doped graphene supported WxC composite material as an efficient non-noble metal electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG JB, CHEN WL, WANG XL, WANG EB
  • 作者关键词:   tungsten carbide, hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, water splitting, electrocatalysi
  • 出版物名称:   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
  • ISSN:   0013-4686 EI 1873-3859
  • 通讯作者地址:   Northeast Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.electacta.2017.08.151
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Tungsten carbides materials exhibit highly efficient activity for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) as promising non-precious electrocatalysts. Herein, a N-doped graphene (NG) supported tungsten carbides composite material (WxC/NG-10, x = 1, 2, x is stoichiometric number of W, 10 is the mole quantity of tungsten in the precursors, mmol) was directly synthesized with a simple method by two-step calcining the mixture of sodium tungstate dihydrate (Na2WO4 center dot 2H(2)O), dicyandiamide (DCDA) and glucose anhydrous (GA), which was characterized by HRTEM, FE-SEM, XRD, XPS, EDX, BET and Raman, and estimated the electrocatalytic activity by the LSV, Tafel curves, and electrochemical impedance spectrum (EIS). The investigations indicate that WxC/NG-10, as an electrocatalyst for HER, achieves a lower overpotential of only 77.82 mV at the current density of 10 mA cm(-2) and a Tafel slope of 45.95 mV dec(-1) in 0.5 mol L-1 H2SO4 aqueous. Additionally, the WxC/NG-10 has also possessed an electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity in 1.0 mol L-1 KOH aqueous with a lower overpotential of 467.6 mV and a Tafel slope of 36.2 mV dec(-1). And after 10000 cycles the electrocatalytic active of WxC/NG-10 decrease 24.63% and 19.35% for HER and OER, respectively. The modification of WxC has improved the activity of NG materials in electrocatalytic applications. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.