Issue 10, 2020

MoS2/CoB with Se doping on carbon cloth to drive overall water-splitting in an alkaline electrolyte

Abstract

Developing effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for both the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) has a pivotal role in large-scale application of hydrogen energy. Herein, a facile and scalable strategy is developed to prepare in situ supported MoS2 coupled with CoB with Se doping on carbon cloth (MoS2/CoB–Se/CC) via a solvothermal process and subsequent selenylation treatment. For the HER, MoS2/CoB–Se/CC delivers the smallest overpotential (93 mV) to reach 10 mA cm−2 compared to MoS2/CoB/CC (158 mV), MoS2/CC (234 mV), and CoB/CC (410 mV) in 1 M KOH, indicating that the coupling effects of MoS2 and CoB with Se doping are responsible for boosting the catalytic performance. Impressively, the designed MoS2/CoB–Se/CC also presents outstanding catalytic activity for the OER, with only a small overpotential of 270 mV needed to drive 10 mA cm−2. Moreover, the developed MoS2/CoB–Se/CC used as both anode and cathode also shows remarkable catalytic performance for overall water-splitting, with a small cell voltage of 1.58 V needed to drive 10 mA cm−2. This work provides an efficient and promising protocol to design bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water-splitting.

Graphical abstract: MoS2/CoB with Se doping on carbon cloth to drive overall water-splitting in an alkaline electrolyte

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jun 2020
Accepted
14 Aug 2020
First published
14 Aug 2020

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020,4, 5036-5041

MoS2/CoB with Se doping on carbon cloth to drive overall water-splitting in an alkaline electrolyte

M. Song, Y. Zhao, Z. Wu and X. Liu, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2020, 4, 5036 DOI: 10.1039/D0SE00864H

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