Citation: Xiali Xiong, Wei Geng, Minna Cao, Rong Cao. Hierarchically structured flower-like Ru nanoparticles-cucurbit[6]uril/multiwalled carbon nanotubes as efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(6): 107717. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.07.060 shu

Hierarchically structured flower-like Ru nanoparticles-cucurbit[6]uril/multiwalled carbon nanotubes as efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst

Xiali Xiong ^{a, b} ,
Wei Geng ^a ,
Minna Cao ^{a, c, *,} ,
Rong Cao ^{a, c, d, *,}

a.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
b.
College of Chemistry Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
c.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
d.
Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China

mncao@fjirsm.ac.cn

rcao@fjirsm.ac.cn

Received Date: 11 July 2022
Accepted Date: 30 July 2022
Available Online: 2 August 2022

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Developing efficient and stable electrocatalyst to hydrogen evolution reaction adaptable for electrolytes with different pH is a big challenge. In this work, a hierarchically structured ternary nanohybrid composed of flower-like Ru nanoparticles, rigid macrocyclic cucurbit[6]uril (CB[6]) and carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was successfully prepared by chemical wet method. Benefited by the structural merits of flower-like Ru nanoparticles exposed abundant active sites supported by the MWCNTs holding superior mass transport and electrons transfer ability as well as the existence of CB[6], the obtained catalyst exhibited outstanding HER activities with overpotentials of 27, 37 and 70 mV at −10 mA/cm² in alkaline, acidic, and neutral electrolytes, respectively. Under the same electrocatalytic operation conditions, the HER performance is comparable or superior to commercial Pt/C catalyst (47, 27 and 49 mV). Besides, chronopotentiometric and accelerated stability test also revealed its extraordinary stability, which could be further employed for electrocatalytic procedure in a broad pH range.
- Ruthenium,
- Cucurbit[n]uril,
- Hierarchical structure,
- Hydrogen evolution reaction,
- pH-universal
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