锂电材料测试 Catalyst design by scanning probe block copolymer lithography.pdfVIP

Catalyst design by scanning probe block copolymer lithography a,1 a,b,1 a b,c,d b,e c a Liliang Huang , Peng-Cheng Chen , Mohan Liu , Xianbiao Fu , Pavlo Gordiichuk , Yanan Yu , Chris Wolverton , Yijin Kangb,c,d,2, and Chad A. Mirkina,b,e,2 aDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; bInternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; cInstitute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 610054 Chengdu, China; dUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China– Northwestern University Joint Center for Materials Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; and eDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 Contributed by Chad A. Mirkin, February 14, 2018 (sent for review January 18, 2018; reviewed by Thomas E. Mallouk and Younan Xia) Scanning probe block copolymer lithography (SPBCL), in combination can be used to tune the H-adsorption properties of the multime- with density-functional theory (DFT), has been used to design and tallic systems (22). synthesize hydrogen evolution catalysts. DFT was used to calculate In this work, we selected the HER as a proof-of-concept due the hydrogen adsorption energy on a series of single-element, bimetallic, to its importance in the commercial production of H2 (23–25). In and trimetallic (Au, Pt, Ni, and Cu) substrates to provide leads an acidic electrolyte, the catalyst’s hydrogen binding energy that could be synthesized in the form of alloy or phase-separated (HBE) is the sole reaction descriptor for the HER (22, 23, 26). particles via SPBCL