Citation: Xiaoli Cui, Yunmeng Sun, Xinxin Xu. Polyoxometalate derived p-n heterojunction for optimized reaction interface and improved HER[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(3): 107348. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.03.071 shu

Polyoxometalate derived p-n heterojunction for optimized reaction interface and improved HER

Xiaoli Cui ^a ,
Yunmeng Sun ^a ,
Xinxin Xu ^{a, b, *,}

a.
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
b.
Institute for Frontier Technologies of Low-Carbon Steelmaking, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China

xuxx@mail.neu.edu.cn

Received Date: 18 February 2022
Revised Date: 14 March 2022
Accepted Date: 15 March 2022
Available Online: 18 March 2022

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MoS₂ is a typical electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but the HER activity is spoilt by intensive adsorption towards H^*, which requires further improvement. For n-type MoS₂, the construction of p-n heterojunction with p-type MoO₃ can reverse this situation, because inner electronic field in p-n heterojunction can facilitate H^* desorption. Based on this hypothesis, p-n heterojunction is built between MoS₂ and MoO₃ with polyoxometalate compound as precursor. The obtained MoO₃/MoS₂ exhibits excellent HER activity, which only requires 68 mV to obtain 10 mA/cm². With MoO₃/MoS₂ as cathode material and Zn slice as anode, Zn-H⁺ battery is assembled. Its open circuit voltage achieves 1.11 V with short circuit current 151.4 mA/cm². The peak power density of this Zn-H⁺ battery reaches 47.6 mW/cm². When discharge at 10 mA/cm², the specific capacity and energy density reach 728 mAh/g and 759 Wh/kg. In this process, H₂ production rate of Zn-H⁺ battery achieves 364 μmol/h with Faradic efficiency 97.8%. It realizes H₂ production and electricity generation simultaneously.
- Polyoxometalate,
- p-n Heterojunction,
- Electrocatalysis,
- HER,
- Zn-H⁺ battery
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