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Abstract

Water splitting for production of hydrogen as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuel has received much attention, but it is still a tough challenge to synthesize electrocatalysts with controllable bonding and charge distribution. In this work, ultrafine S‐doped RuP nanoparticles homogeneously embedded in a N, P, and S‐codoped carbon sheet (S‐RuP@NPSC) is synthesized by pyrolysis of poly(cyclotriphosphazene‐co‐4,4′‐sulfonyldiphenol) (PZS) as the source of C/N/S/P. The bondings between Ru and N, P, S in PZS are regulated to synthesize RuS2 (800 °C) and S‐RuP (900 °C) by different calcination temperatures. The S‐RuP@NPSC with low Ru loading of 0.8 wt% with abundant active catalytic sites possesses high utilization of Ru, the mass catalytic activity is 22.88 times than 20 wt% Pt/C with the overpotential of 250 mV. Density functional theory calculation confirms that the surface Ru (−0.18 eV) and P (0.05 eV) are catalytic active sites for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and the according charge redistribution of Ru is regulated by S and P with reverse electronegativity and electron–donor property to induce a synergistically enhanced reactivity toward the HER. This work provides a rational method to regulate the bonding and charge distribution of Ru‐based electrocatalysts by reacting macromolecules with multielement of C/N/S/P with Ru.

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Title
Charge Redistribution Caused by S,P Synergistically Active Ru Endows an Ultrahigh Hydrogen Evolution Activity of S‐Doped RuP Embedded in N,P,S‐Doped Carbon
Author
Liu, Xiaoyu 1 ; Liu, Fan 2 ; Yu, Jiayuan 3 ; Xiong, Guowei 2 ; Zhao, Lili 2 ; Sang, Yuanhua 1 ; Zuo, Shouwei 4 ; Zhang, Jing 5 ; Liu, Hong 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhou, Weijia 2 

 State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, P. R. China 
 Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), University of Jinan, Jinan, P. R. China 
 Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), University of Jinan, Jinan, P. R. China; Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Surface Chemistry of Energy Materials, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangdong, P. R. China 
 Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China 
 Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China 
 State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, P. R. China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), University of Jinan, Jinan, P. R. China 
Section
Full Papers
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Sep 2020
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
e-ISSN
21983844
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2440871879
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.