Surface oxidation for enhancing the hydrogen evolution reaction of metal nitrides: a theoretical study on vanadium nitride-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Surface oxidation for enhancing the hydrogen evolution reaction of metal nitrides: a theoretical study on vanadium nitride

Published:2021 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2633-5409
Container-title:Materials Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Mater. Adv.

Author:

Adimi Samira¹²³⁴⁵,Qi Weiliang⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Thomas Tiju¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³,Gebauer Ralph¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶,Yang Minghui⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Ruan Shengping¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics and College of Electronic Science & Engineering

2. Jilin University

3. Changchun 130012

4. P. R. China

5. Solid State functional Materials Research Laboratory

6. Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering

7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

8. Ningbo

9. China

10. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

11. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

12. Chennai 600036

13. India

14. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

15. Trieste

16. Italy

Abstract

A single oxide layer acts as a surface oxide activation layer (SOAL) on top of the VN surface toward the HER. VN is a simple model nitride, and this picture can be used for designing enhanced nitride-based catalysts with controlled oxidation of surfaces.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Microbiology

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/MA/D1MA00231G

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