scholarly journals Strategies for Developing Transition Metal Phosphides in Electrochemical Water Splitting

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Ying ◽  
Huan Wang

Electrochemical water splitting involving hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a greatly promising technology to generate sustainable and renewable energy resources, which relies on the exploration regarding the design of electrocatalysts with high efficiency, high stability, and low cost. Transition metal phosphides (TMPs), as nonprecious metallic electrocatalysts, have been extensively investigated and proved to be high-efficient electrocatalysts in both HER and OER. In this minireview, a general overview of recent progress in developing high-performance TMP electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting has been presented. Design strategies including composition engineering by element doping, hybridization, and tuning the molar ratio, structure engineering by porous structures, nanoarray structures, and amorphous structures, and surface/interface engineering by tuning surface wetting states, facet control, and novel substrate are summarized. Key scientific problems and prospective research directions are also briefly discussed.

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (34) ◽  
pp. 2003261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haojie Zhang ◽  
A. Wouter Maijenburg ◽  
Xiaopeng Li ◽  
Stefan L. Schweizer ◽  
Ralf B. Wehrspohn

Nano Today ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 26-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Biao Kong ◽  
Dongyuan Zhao ◽  
Huanting Wang ◽  
Cordelia Selomulya

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 633-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinzhan Su ◽  
Jinglan Zhou ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
Cong Liu ◽  
Yubin Chen

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 709-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kolny-Olesiak

AbstractTransition metal phosphides are interesting candidates for application as catalysts in electrochemical water splitting or heteroatom removal reactions, energy storage, and magnetic refrigeration. Metal phosphides can adopt a wide range of stoichiometries, and have metallic or semiconducting properties. The electronic and magnetic characteristics of metal phosphides can be further controlled by changing the size and the shape of the crystallites and by combining two different metals. In this review, the wet-chemical methods to synthesize such ternary Fe, Co, and Ni phosphides are summarised. First, an overview of the general synthetic strategies and the crystallographic structure of the related materials is given. Then, examples of the synthesis of several ternary phosphides are described, and the motivation for synthesising the specific materials is discussed.


Author(s):  
ChuiTao Zeng ◽  
Lingyun Dai ◽  
YuHong Jin ◽  
JingBing Liu ◽  
QianQian Zhang ◽  
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This review focuses on the catalytic mechanism and the modification strategies for Se-based catalysts, including morphological control, anion substitution and cation doping, using composite materials modified by constructing hetero-structures, and their synergistic effects


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