scholarly journals Construction of C/MoS2 nanocomposite for highly efficient electrocatalytic NRR

2021 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 03022
Author(s):  
Yang Guohua ◽  
Li Nan

Electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) has been considered as a promising and green process to replace conventional Haber−Bosch process. However, the presence of sluggish reaction kinetics and competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) can result in poor activity and unsatisfactory selectivity. Here, we proposed C/MoS2 catalysts by a facile ‘one-pot’ hydrothermal method. Benefiting from porous nanosphere structure, it shows outstanding charge transfer rate, which accelerates NRR kinetics. As a result, C/MoS2 exhibited a conspicuously improved NRR performance with a high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 8.2% at −0.7 V. In addition, this electrocatalyst showed marvelous stability.

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (38) ◽  
pp. 26550-26561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jongwoo Song ◽  
Younah Lee ◽  
Boa Jin ◽  
Jongdeok An ◽  
Hyunmin Park ◽  
...  

The spectroscopic charge transfer rate constant was compared with the PV properties of a polymer solar cell using a kinetic model.


2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 1954-1960
Author(s):  
SHANGGUAN Peng-Peng ◽  
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TONG Shao-Ping ◽  
LI Hai-Li ◽  
LENG Wen-Hua ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 4075-4081
Author(s):  
Shuang Zhao ◽  
Yuming Dong ◽  
Guangli Wang ◽  
Pingping Jiang ◽  
Yuxia Zhang ◽  
...  

Grass-like NiO nanowires as a hole-transfer layer to improve light capture efficiency and charge transfer rate for a CdSe-sensitized photocathode.


1996 ◽  
Vol 473 (2) ◽  
pp. 1114-1117 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kimura ◽  
A. B. Sannigrahi ◽  
J. P. Gu ◽  
G. Hirsch ◽  
R. J. Buenker ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 1572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houman Yaghoubi ◽  
Daniel Jun ◽  
J. Thomas Beatty ◽  
Arash Takshi

ABSTRACTBacterial photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) are promising materials for solar energy harvesting, due to their high internal quantum efficiency. However, applications of RCs in bio-photovoltaic devices so far show relatively low external power conversion efficiency, mainly due to low efficiency of the charge transfer to the electrode. Preferential orientation of RCs on an electrode’s surface can enhance the charge transfer rate to some extent. Yet, the results of direct coupling of RCs to an Au electrode, through cysteine residues from the H-subunit, revealed that direct electron transfer is not efficient. This work focuses on a different approach to achieve high charge transfer rate between an Au electrode and RC protein complexes by employing cytochrome c (Cyt c)\carboxylic acid-terminated linker molecules. This approach preferentially orients RCs with the primary donor site to the electrode. Furthermore, Cyt c can be considered as a conductive linker, while the charge transfer mechanism through carboxylic acid-terminated linker molecules is dominated by tunneling. The photochronoamperometric results for a two electrode cell setup indicated a 156 nA.cm-2 cathodic photocurrent density; the photocurrent was measured in an electrochemical cell with ubiquinone-10 (Q2) in the electrolyte. Negligible photocurrents were observed in the case of coupled RCs to the Au via cysteine residues on H-subunit, with only Cyt c in the electrolyte. These findings contribute to the design of highly efficient bio-photovoltaic devices.


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