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 hi...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 Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs in the aspect of size,crystalline structure and composition.Here,we report a simple alkalization strategy to design the ultrathin Ti_(3)C_(2)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 Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs and H^(*).The optimized Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs achieve an overpotential of 476 mV at the current density of 10 mA/cm^(2)and a Tafel slope of 129 mV/dec for HER catalysis,which are superior to that of Ti_(3)C_(2)nanosheets and m-Ti_(3)C_(2).It paves an avenue for the rational transformation of MXene bulks to one-dimensional NWs catalysts for HER.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61804082,21671108 and 51473078)Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays and Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC(Nos.51811530018)+4 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61935017)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(No.2018M642286)National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals,Scientific and Technological Innovation Teams of Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province(No.TJ215006)Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(No.YX03003)Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds(No.2019K047A)。
文摘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 Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs in the aspect of size,crystalline structure and composition.Here,we report a simple alkalization strategy to design the ultrathin Ti_(3)C_(2)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 Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs and H^(*).The optimized Ti_(3)C_(2)NWs achieve an overpotential of 476 mV at the current density of 10 mA/cm^(2)and a Tafel slope of 129 mV/dec for HER catalysis,which are superior to that of Ti_(3)C_(2)nanosheets and m-Ti_(3)C_(2).It paves an avenue for the rational transformation of MXene bulks to one-dimensional NWs catalysts for HER.