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Interfacial engineering of 3D hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction

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Rational design and construction of low-cost and highly efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is meaningful but challenging. Herein, a robust three dimensional (3D) hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure (CoSe2@MoSe2) is proposed as an efficient HER electrocatalyst through interfacial engineering. Benefitting from the abundant heterogeneous interfaces on CoSe2@MoSe2, the exposed edge active sites are maximized and the charge transfer at the hetero-interfaces is accelerated, thus facilitating the HER kinetics. It exhibits remarkable performance in pH-universal conditions. Notably, it only needs an overpotential (η10) of 108 mV to reach a current density of 10 mA·cm−2 in 1.0 M KOH, outperforming most of the reported transition metal selenides electrocatalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations unveil that the heterointerfaces synergistically optimize the Gibbs free energies of H2O and H* during alkaline HER, accelerating the reaction kinetics. The present work may provide new construction guidance for rational design of high-efficient electrocatalysts.

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The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1804140, U20041100 and 21801015) for support. This work is also supported by Bei**g Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars (No. 3090012221909). The authors thank BL10B and BL12B in the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) for help with characterizations.

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Lili Zhang, Yuanting Lei, Chengli **ong, Huishan Shang, Yafei Zhao & Bing Zhang

  2. Energy & Catalysis Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Bei**g Institute of Technology, Bei**g, 100081, China

    Danni Zhou & Wenxing Chen

  3. Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Bei**g, 100084, China

    Zhuoli Jiang & **nyuan Li

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Interfacial engineering of 3D hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction

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Zhang, L., Lei, Y., Zhou, D. et al. Interfacial engineering of 3D hollow CoSe2@ultrathin MoSe2 core@shell heterostructure for efficient pH-universal hydrogen evolution reaction. Nano Res. 15, 2895–2904 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3887-9

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