RESEARCH ARTICLE

A 3D porous WP2 nanosheets@carbon cloth flexible electrode for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

  • Mingyu Pi 1 ,
  • Xiaodeng Wang 1 ,
  • Dingke Zhang 2 ,
  • Shuxia Wang 1 ,
  • Shijian Chen , 1
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  • 1. College of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
  • 2. College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China

Received date: 26 Jan 2018

Accepted date: 17 Mar 2018

Published date: 18 Sep 2018

Copyright

2018 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature

Abstract

Self-standing porous WP2 nanosheet arrays on carbon fiber cloth (WP2 NSs/CC) were synthesized and used as a 3D flexible hydrogen evolution electrode. Because of its 3D porous nanoarray structure, the WP2 NSs/CC exhibits a remarkable catalytic activity and a high stability. By using the experimental measurements and first-principle calculations, the underlying reasons for the excellent catalytic activity were further explored. Our work makes the present WP2 NSs as a promising electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution and provides a way to design and fabricate efficient hydrogen evolution electrodes through 3D porous nano-arrays architecture.

Cite this article

Mingyu Pi , Xiaodeng Wang , Dingke Zhang , Shuxia Wang , Shijian Chen . A 3D porous WP2 nanosheets@carbon cloth flexible electrode for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2018 , 12(3) : 425 -432 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-018-1726-7

Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51672031) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 106112017CD-JQJ308820 and 106112017CDJXSYY0002).

Electronic Supplementary Material

Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-018-1726-7 and is accessible for authorized users.
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