Efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis using ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulphide
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Cabán-Acevedo, MiguelStone, Michael L.
Schmidt, J. R.
Thomas, Joseph G.
Ding, Qi
Chang, Hung Chih
Tsai, Meng-Lin

He, Jr-Hau

Jin, Song
KAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering Program
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
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2015-09-14Online Publication Date
2015-09-14Print Publication Date
2015-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622396
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The scalable and sustainable production of hydrogen fuel through water splitting demands efficient and robust Earth-abundant catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Building on promising metal compounds with high HER catalytic activity, such as pyrite structure cobalt disulphide (CoS 2), and substituting non-metal elements to tune the hydrogen adsorption free energy could lead to further improvements in catalytic activity. Here we present a combined theoretical and experimental study to establish ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulphide (CoPS) as a high-performance Earth-abundant catalyst for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production. Nanostructured CoPS electrodes achieved a geometrical catalytic current density of 10 mA cm at overpotentials as low as 48mV, with outstanding long-term operational stability. Integrated photocathodes of CoPS on n -p-p silicon micropyramids achieved photocurrents up to 35 mA cm at 0 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), onset photovoltages as high as 450 mV versus RHE, and the most efficient solar-driven hydrogen generation from Earth-abundant systems.Citation
Cabán-Acevedo M, Stone ML, Schmidt JR, Thomas JG, Ding Q, et al. (2015) Efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis using ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulphide. Nature Materials 14: 1245–1251. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4410.Sponsors
This research is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under Award DE-FG02-09ER46664. M.C.-A. thanks the NSF graduate Research Fellowship for support. J.R.S. is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-1362136 for the theoretical work here. H.-C.C., M.-L.T. and J.-H.H. are supported by KAUST baseline fund for design and fabrication of light-harvesting Si substrates.Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
Nature MaterialsDOI
10.1038/nmat4410PubMed ID
26366849ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/nmat4410
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