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First-principles study of vanadium carbides as electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions

Published:2019 Issue:64 Volume:9 Page:37467-37473
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Wan Jing¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Wang Congcong¹²³⁴⁵,Tang Qian¹²³⁴⁵,Gu Xiao⁶⁷⁸⁵,He Mingquan¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart Materials

2. College of Physics

3. Chongqing University

4. Chongqing 401331

5. China

6. School of Physical Science and Technology

7. Ningbo University

8. Ningbo 315000

Abstract

The origin of excellent performance of vanadium carbides (VC and V₈V₇) in hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER and OER) is revealed by first-principles calculations. It is found that the underlying mechanisms in HER/OER processes are Pt-like.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/RA/C9RA06539C

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