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Volume 7 Biosensors Journal
ISSN: 2090-4967 Electrochemistry 2018
June 11-12, 2018
June 11-12, 2018 | Rome, Italy
4th International Conference on Electrochemistry
Interfacially engineering topological semimetal MoP into a superior electrocatalyst for hydrogen
evolution
Guowei Li1, Gudrun Auffermann1, Claudia Felser1 and Xinliang Feng2
1Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
2Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Materials in topological states are endowed with many exotic properties such as extremely large magnetoresistance, high
conductivity, and intrinsic Hall effects. However, the effect of such appealing properties on electrocatalysis still remains
elusive. Recently, the observation of exceedingly high conductivity and Weyl nodes in MoP provide us with a modeling
catalyst for revealing the correlation between topological states and electrocatalytic activity and designing high-performance
electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). MoP encapsulated in Mo, P co-doped carbon layer (MoP@C) was thus
synthesized and exhibits outstanding electrocatalytic HER performance with an extremely low overpotential of only 49 mV at
a current density of 10 mA/cm2 and a decreased Tafel slope of 54 mV/dec. in alkaline medium. Such superior HER activity of
the MoP@C exceeds those of the-state-of-art non-noble metal-based HER electrocatalysts and even comparable to that of the
Pt/C catalyst. As a topological semimetal, MoP manifests a very high conductivity (8.2 μΩ at 300 K) and mobility (up to 10
cm2/VS at 300 K) due to the topologically protected triple point fermions and complex Fermi surface. Meanwhile, the rich P-C
and Mo-C bonds in the interfaces between the carbon layer and MoP modulates the band structure of MoP@C and eventually
facilitates the fast electron transfer, accumulation, and subsequent de-localization, which are responsible for the excellent HER
activity.
Recent Publications
1. G Li, G R Blake and T T M Palstra (2017) Vacancies in functional materials for clean energy storage and harvesting: the
perfect imperfection. Chem. Soc. Rev. 46:1693-1706.
2. G Li, B Zhang, T Baluyan, J Rao, J Wu, A A Novakova, P Rudolf, G R Blake, R de Groot and T T M Palstra (2016) Metal
insulator transition induced by spin reorientation in Fe7Se8 grain boundaries. Inorg. Chem. 55:12912-12922.
3. G Li, R Su, J Rao, J Wu, P Rudolf, G R Blake, R de Groot, F Besenbacher and T T M Palstra (2016) Band gap narrowing
of SnS2 superstructures with improved hydrogen production. J. Mater. Chem. A 4:209-216.
4. G Li, B Zhang, J Rao, D Gonzalez, G R Blake, R Groot and T T M Palstra (2015) Effect of vacancies on magnetism,
electrical transport, and thermoelectric performance of marcasite FeSe2− δ (δ=0.05), Chem. Mater. 27(24):8220–8229.
5. G Li, B Zhang, F Yu, A A Novakova, M S Krivenkov, T Y Kiseleva, L Chang, J Rao, A O Polyakov, G R Blake, R de
Groot and T TMPalstra (2014) High purity Fe3S4 greigite microcrystals for magnetic and electrochemical performance.
Chem. Mater. 26(20):5821–5829.
Biography
Guowei Li received his Master’s degree in Materials Science from Jiangsu University in 2011 with Prof. Changsheng Li. He then moved to the University of Groningen, the
Netherlands, and was awarded the PhD degree under the supervision of Dr. Graeme R Blake and Prof. Thomas T M Palstra in 2016. Since then, he joined the Max Planck
Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. Claudia Felser. His research interests focus on the magnetic and electrical
transport properties of chalcogenides and topological materials, from synthesis to applications in clean energy harvesting and conversion.
Guowei Li et al., Biosens J 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2090-4967-C1-002