Highly Active Hydrogen Evolution Electrodes via Co-Deposition of Platinum and Polyoxometalates

Chao Zhang; Yahui Hong; Ruihan Dai; Xinping Lin; La-Sheng Long; Cheng Wang; Wenbin Lin

doi:10.1021/acsami.5b02899

Highly Active Hydrogen Evolution Electrodes via Co-Deposition of Platinum and Polyoxometalates

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Jun 3;7(21):11648-53. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b02899. Epub 2015 May 21.

Authors

Chao Zhang¹, Yahui Hong¹, Ruihan Dai¹, Xinping Lin¹, La-Sheng Long¹, Cheng Wang¹, Wenbin Lin^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ †Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China.
² ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 E 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.

PMID: 25965852
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02899

Abstract

A highly active hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrode with low Pt loading on glassy carbon (GC) has been prepared by anodic platinum dissolution and co-deposition of polyoxometalates. TEM, EDS, XPS, CV, and ICP-MS analyses gave a Pt loading of 50-100 ng/cm2, corresponding to a Pt coverage of only 0.08-0.16 monolayer. With an overpotential of 65 mV at 20 mA/cm2, the modified GC has a HER activity comparable to that of the commercial Pt working electrode.

Keywords: anodic platinum dissolution; hydrogen evolution reaction; polyoxometalate.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't