Sulfur poisoning of emergent and current electrocatalysts: vulnerability of MoS2, and direct correlation to Pt hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics

Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 8879-8883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Min Tan ◽  
Zdeněk Sofer ◽  
Martin Pumera

The impacts of sulfur poisoning on both MoS2 and Pt were examined through comparisons between their HER electrocatalytic activities before and after poisoning. In particular, the poisoning of Pt was directly correlated to its HER performance.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (28) ◽  
pp. 16859-16866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan-Shan Lu ◽  
Li-Ming Zhang ◽  
Yi-Wen Dong ◽  
Jia-Qi Zhang ◽  
Xin-Tong Yan ◽  
...  

The design of electrocatalysts including precious and nonprecious metals for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline media remains challenging due to the sluggish reaction kinetics caused by the additional water dissociation step.


2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (51) ◽  
pp. 28083-28092
Author(s):  
Michael T. Tang ◽  
Xinyan Liu ◽  
Yongfei Ji ◽  
Jens K. Norskov ◽  
Karen Chan

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