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Low-Pt Amount Supported Polypyrrole/MXene 1D/2D Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

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Developing electrocatalysts with ultralow platinum (Pt) content for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is essential. In this work, we electrodeposited Pt nanoparticles on the composite carrier of polypyrrole (PPy) nanowires and MXene materials, thereby obtaining a catalyst with a mixed structure consisting of three materials with different dimensions, namely zero-dimensional (0D) platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs), one-dimensional (1D) PPy nanowires and two-dimensional (2D) MXene nanosheets. The PPy nanowires were compounded with MXene nanosheets, which enhanced the conductivity of the catalytic carrier and provided more active sites. The overpotential of the electrocatalyst with ultralow Pt loading (17.11 μg cm‒2) is 40 mV when the current density is 10 mA cm−2, which is very close to the commercial 20 wt% Pt/C (41 mV). The catalyst exhibits high turnover frequencies (2.21 H2 s−1 in 0.5 M H2SO4) at 100 mV and has relatively good stability due to the composite structural characteristics of 1D and 2D materials. This research provides a direction for the design and development of other MXene-based electrocatalysts and more conductive polymers.

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1810204, 12004274 and 62075152), the Innovation Team of Science and Technology of Shanxi Province (201805D131004), Major Project of Shanxi Province (20181102019), Funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M680915), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program 2020JQ-790), Youths Talents Support Program of Shaanxi Association for Science and Technology (20190606), Scientific Research Program of Education Department of Shaanxi Province (19JK0962), PhD research startup foundation of Yan’an University (YDBK2017-28).

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    Shanshan Guo & Jianhong Wu

  2. Institute of New Carbon Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Xiaodong Hou, Bining Tian & Yue Tian

  3. Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Reaction Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yan’an University, Yan’an, 716000, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

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Guo, S., Jian, X., Hou, X. et al. Low-Pt Amount Supported Polypyrrole/MXene 1D/2D Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Electrocatalysis 13, 469–478 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12678-022-00731-9

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