Carbon Doping Triggered Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution of Cross‐Linked Porous <scp>Ru‐MoO<sub>2</sub></scp> Via Solid‐Phase Reaction Strategy
Jialin Cai, Jianye Yang, Xin Xie, Jie Ding, Leyan Liu, Wanyu Tian, Yushan Liu, Zhiyong Tang, Baozhong Liu, Siyu Lu
Abstract
The defect‐free structure of Mo‐based materials is a “double‐edged sword”, which endows the material with excellent stability, but limits its chemical versatility and application in electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Carbon doping engineering is an attractive strategy to effectively improve the performance of Mo‐based catalyst and maintain their stability. Herein, we report a cross‐linked porous carbon‐doped MoO 2 (C–MoO 2 )‐based catalyst Ru/C–MoO 2 for electrochemical HER, which is prepared by the convenient redox solid‐phase reaction (SPR) of porous RuO 2 /Mo 2 C composite precursor. Theoretical studies reveal that due to the presence of carbon atoms, the electronic structure of C–MoO 2 has been properly adjusted, and the loaded small Ru nanoparticles provide a fast water dissociation rate and moderate H adsorption strength. In electrochemical studies under a pH‐universal environment, Ru/C–MoO 2 electrocatalyst exhibits a low overpotential at a current density of 10 mA cm −2 and has a low Tafel slope. Meanwhile, Ru/C‐MoO 2 has excellent stability for more than 100 h at an initial current density of 100 mA cm −2 .