Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside , Riverside, California 92521, United States.
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside , Riverside, California 92521, United States.
J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Sep 20;139(37):12915-12918. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b07247. Epub 2017 Sep 8.
Two different boron layers, flat (graphene-like) and puckered (phosphorene-like), found in the crystal structure of MoB show drastically different activities for hydrogen evolution, according to Gibbs free energy calculations of H-adsorption on MoB. The graphene-like B layer is highly active, whereas the phosphorene-like B layer performs very poorly for hydrogen evolution. A new Sn-flux synthesis permits the rapid single-phase synthesis of MoB, and electrochemical analyses show that it is one of the best hydrogen evolution reaction active bulk materials with good long-term cycle stability under acidic conditions. MoB compensates its smaller density of active sites if compared with highly active bulk MoB (which contains only the more active graphene-like boron layers) by a 5-times increase of its surface area.
在 MoB 的晶体结构中发现了两种不同的硼层,分别是平坦的(类石墨烯)和褶皱的(类黑磷)。根据 H 在 MoB 上吸附的吉布斯自由能计算,这两种硼层对析氢反应表现出截然不同的活性。类石墨烯 B 层具有很高的活性,而类黑磷 B 层的析氢活性则非常差。一种新的 Sn 流体制备方法可以快速单相合成 MoB,电化学分析表明,在酸性条件下,它是最好的析氢反应活性体材料之一,具有良好的长期循环稳定性。与高活性块状 MoB(仅含有更活跃的类石墨烯硼层)相比,如果 MoB 的活性位密度较小,则可以通过增加 5 倍的表面积来弥补。