Citation: Weiwei Zhao, Beibei Jin, Longlu Wang, Chengbo Ding, Mengyue Jiang, Tiantian Chen, Shuaihang Bi, Shujuan Liu, Qiang Zhao. Ultrathin Ti₃C₂ nanowires derived from multi-layered bulks for high-performance hydrogen evolution reaction[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(1): 557-561. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.07.035 shu

Ultrathin Ti₃C₂ nanowires derived from multi-layered bulks for high-performance hydrogen evolution reaction

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Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing 210023, China
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College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology) Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing 210023 China

iamqzhao@njupt.edu.cn

Received Date: 14 May 2021
Revised Date: 7 June 2021
Accepted Date: 13 July 2021
Available Online: 20 July 2021

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One-dimensional ultrathin nanowires (NWs) offer a great deal of promising properties for electrochemical energy storage and conversion due to their nanoscale confinement effect and high surface-to-volume ratios. It is highly desirable to precisely design and synthesize ultrathin Ti₃C₂ NWs in the aspect of size, crystalline structure and composition. Here, we report a simple alkalization strategy to design the ultrathin Ti₃C₂ NWs for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) by modulating the surface-active sites. The design principle can well improve the amount of the defect sites and ion accessibility to increase the interactions between Ti₃C₂ NWs and H*. The optimized Ti₃C₂ NWs achieve an overpotential of 476 mV at the current density of 10 mA/cm² and a Tafel slope of 129 mV/dec for HER catalysis, which are superior to that of Ti₃C₂ nanosheets and m-Ti₃C₂. It paves an avenue for the rational transformation of MXene bulks to one-dimensional NWs catalysts for HER.
- MXene,
- Ti₃C₂ nanowires,
- Ultrathin films,
- Chemical transformation,
- Hydrogen evolution reaction
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