Fabrication of MoSe2 decorated three-dimensional graphene composites structure as a highly stable electrocatalyst for improved hydrogen evolution reaction

Sajjad Hussain; Dhanasekaran Vikraman; Kamran Akbar; Bilal Abbas Naqvi; Syed Mustansar Abbas; Hyun Seok Kim; Seung Hyun Chun; Jongwan Jung

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.126

Fabrication of MoSe₂ decorated three-dimensional graphene composites structure as a highly stable electrocatalyst for improved hydrogen evolution reaction

Sajjad Hussain
, Dhanasekaran Vikraman
, Kamran Akbar
, Bilal Abbas Naqvi
, Syed Mustansar Abbas
, Hyun Seok Kim
, Seung Hyun Chun
, Jongwan Jung

Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Herein, we demonstrated the highly active and stable composites of molybdenum diselenide/carbon cloth (MoSe₂/CC), molybdenum diselenide/nickel foam (MoSe₂/NF), molybdenum diselenide (MoSe₂/graphene/NF) electrocatalysts. The electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance revealed that MoSe₂/graphene/NF electrocatlyst have a platinum-like activity with overpotential 92 mV at 10 mA cm⁻² and a small Tafel slope of 42 mV dec⁻¹ in an acidic medium, which is the best among the non-noble metal hydrogen evolution catalysts. Our experimental findings validated by first-principle calculations using density of states near the Fermi level which increased the carrier concentration of electron and mobility for superior HER performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1659-1669
Number of pages	11
Journal	Renewable Energy
Volume	143
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.126
State	Published - Dec 2019

Keywords

Electrocatalyst
Gibbs energy
Graphene
Hybrids
MoSe

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