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Phosphorus incorporation activates the basal plane of tungsten disulfide for efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis

Fan Wang1,§, Shuwen Niu2,§, Xinqi Liang1, Gongming Wang2( ), Minghua Chen1( )
Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectric and Applications (Ministry of Education), Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

§ Fan Wang and Shuwen Niu contributed equally to this work.

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Phosphorus is acted as an electronic structure modulator to redistribute the electron density of the catalytic site of WS2, enabling WS2 with high intrinsic catalytic activity.

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The basal planes of transition metal dichalcogenides are basically inert for catalysis due to the absence of adsorption and activation sites, which substantially limit their catalytic application. Herein, a facile strategy to activate the basal plane of WS2 for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysis by phosphorous-induced electron density modulation is demonstrated. The optimized P doped WS2 (P-WS2) nanowires arrays deliver a low overpotential of 88 mV at 10 mA·cm−2 with a Tafel slope of 62 mV·dec−1 for HER, which is substantially better than the pristine counterpart. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirms the surface electron densities of WS2 have been availably manipulated by P doping. Moreover, density functional theory (DFT) studies further prove P doping can redistribute the density of states (DOS) around EF, which endow the inert basal plane of P-WS2 with edge-like catalytic activity toward hydrogen evolution catalysis. Our work offers a facile and effective approach to modulate the catalytic surface of WS2 toward highly efficient HER catalysis.

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tungsten disulfideelectronic structure modulatororbital orientationdensity of states redistributionhydrogen evolution reaction

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 4,
April 2022
Pages 2855-2861
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3873-2
Cite this article:
Wang F, Niu S, Liang X, et al. Phosphorus incorporation activates the basal plane of tungsten disulfide for efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis. Nano Research, 2022, 15(4): 2855-2861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3873-2
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Received: 09 August 2021
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Published: 18 September 2021
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