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- Title
Theoretical Study of Transition‐Metal‐Modified Mo<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>2</sub> MXene as a Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.
- Authors
Gan, Jinyu; Li, Fuhua; Tang, Yurong; Tang, Qing
- Abstract
The 2D MXenes have attracted great recent attention as the electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, the activity and the modification strategy of the catalytic properties have not been firmly established yet. In this study, we performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations to investigate the stability and HER performance of functionalized Mo2C MXene. The Pourbaix diagram indicates the fully oxidized surface is the most stable state. The oxidized Mo2CO2 is electrically conductive, yet the surface HER activity is unsatisfactory owing to the strong first H adsorption. The doping of transition metals (TM) into the Mo lattice, however, leads to much more enhanced H adsorption and deteriorates the activity. Alternatively, the H binding can be effectively weakened and flexibly tuned by anchoring the TM atoms over the surface with appropriate coverage, and Mn/Fe decoration at 12.5 % ML (monolayer) coverage is identified as the promising candidates with close to zero Gibbs free energy of H adsorption (ΔGH*) for the first H adsorption. The weakening effect arises from charge transfer from TM to surface O, resulting in increased occupancy and weakened O−H bonds. Furthermore, contrary to the weakening effect, the tensile strain leads to enhanced O−H binding by the up‐shifted Op electronic states, which can further modulate the HER performance of TM‐modified Mo2CO2. The synergistic effect between TM modification and strain engineering offers beneficial advantages for the realization of efficient electrochemical HER, which can be applied to other MXenes for electronic and catalytic applications.
- Subjects
CATALYSTS; DENSITY functional theory; CHARGE transfer; TRANSITION metals; HYDROGEN evolution reactions; MONOMOLECULAR films
- Publication
ChemSusChem, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 22, p6005
- ISSN
1864-5631
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cssc.202002163