화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.96, 371-375, April, 2021
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2021.02.003  Export Citation
Mesoporous Rh nanoparticles as efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction
Jiyoung Kim1, 2, Kenya Kani3, Jeonghun Kim4, Jeong Seok Yeon1, Min-Kyu Song5, Bo Jiang6, Jongbeom Na3, Yusuke Yamauchi3, 6, †, and Ho Seok Park1, 7, †
  • 1School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
  • 2School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, United States, Korea
  • 3School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
  • 4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea
  • 5b School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, United States, USA
  • 6JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics Project and International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
  • 7SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea
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In the face of hydrogen society, considerable efforts to develop highly active and stable electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) have been undertaken to realize sustainable hydrogen production using water splitting. A rational design of mesoporous structure is considered as a promising approach for efficient electrochemical reaction. Herein, we demonstrate the mesoporous rhodium nanoparticles (MRNs) synthesized by simple chemical reduction using polymeric micelle template for the high electrocatalytic performance of HER in an acidic media. Due to the large accessible surface area and abundant low-coordinated atoms on the concave pore surface, our MRNs exhibits the lower overpotential of 29.4 mV at a current density of 10 mA/cm2 for HER, compared to 33.8 mV of Rh black. The MRNs also achieves a small Tafel slope of 30.9 mV/dec, enhanced exchange current density and excellent stability in long-term operation. These kinetic and stability properties are attributed to the uniform mesoporous morphology and the robust structure of the MRNs.
Keywords:Rhodium;Mesoporous structure;Electrocatalysts;Hydrogen evolution reaction
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