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Controlled Synthesis of Copper-Doped Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst with Enhanced Activity and Stability for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

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As a promising alternative to precious metal catalysts, Molybdenum carbide (MoC) still cannot compete with commercial Pt catalysts in many aspects. In the present work, we develop a simple carburization method to synthesize synergistic MoC catalysts with highly dispersed copper. Addition of copper could effectively induce formation of α-phase of MoC and markedly improve electrochemical activity for HER reaction. When the doping ratio of Cu–Mo reaches 10:90, the Cu doped MoC displays the best catalytic performance, even compared with the commercial Pt/C catalyst. The enhanced HER activity for Cu–MoxCy can be attributed to the formation of active phase and also synergistic surface.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21673273, 21872163, 21822801, 21576008, 91634116) and PetroChina Innovation Foundation (Grant No. 2016D-5007-0505).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Pengcheng Li, Dengfeng Wu, Changqing Dai, Xingkai Huang, Chao Li, Daojian Cheng & Jiqin Zhu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Coal Convers, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, 030001, China

    Song Zhou & Xi Liu

  3. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Song Zhou

  4. Syncat@Beijing, SynfuelsChina Co. Ltd, Beijing, 101407, China

    Song Zhou, Zhengang Lv, Jian Xu & Xi Liu

  5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Zhen Yin

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Li, P., Wu, D., Dai, C. et al. Controlled Synthesis of Copper-Doped Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst with Enhanced Activity and Stability for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Catal Lett 149, 1368–1374 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-019-02695-w

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