A class of metal diboride electrocatalysts synthesized by a molten salt-assisted reaction for the hydrogen evolution reaction

Feifan Guo; Yuanyuan Wu; Xuan Ai; Hui Chen; Guo-Dong Li; Wei Chen; Xiaoxin Zou

doi:10.1039/c9cc03638e

A class of metal diboride electrocatalysts synthesized by a molten salt-assisted reaction for the hydrogen evolution reaction

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jul 18;55(59):8627-8630. doi: 10.1039/c9cc03638e.

Authors

Feifan Guo¹, Yuanyuan Wu², Xuan Ai¹, Hui Chen¹, Guo-Dong Li¹, Wei Chen³, Xiaoxin Zou¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China. xxzou@jlu.edu.cn.
² State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China. xxzou@jlu.edu.cn and Key Laboratory of Preparation and Application of Environmental Friendly Materials (Jilin Normal University), Ministry of Education, Changchun 130103, P. R. China.
³ Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, P. R. China.

PMID: 31282506
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc03638e

Abstract

A family of twelve monometallic diborides, containing transition metals from group IVB elements to group VIII elements, and Ni-W bimetallic diborides are synthesized via a molten salt-assisted method. Their trend in activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction is studied, with Ni-W bimetallic diborides acting as the most efficient, nonprecious electrocatalysts.