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Hao Fei, Ruoqi Liu, Yunze Zhang, Hongsheng Wang, Miao Wang, Siyuan Wang, Meng Ni, Zhuangzhi Wu, Jian Wang. Extending MoS2-based materials into the catalysis of non-acidic hydrogen evolution: challenges, progress, and perspectives[J]. Materials Futures, 2023, 2(2): 022103. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/acc51d
Citation: Hao Fei, Ruoqi Liu, Yunze Zhang, Hongsheng Wang, Miao Wang, Siyuan Wang, Meng Ni, Zhuangzhi Wu, Jian Wang. Extending MoS2-based materials into the catalysis of non-acidic hydrogen evolution: challenges, progress, and perspectives[J]. Materials Futures, 2023, 2(2): 022103. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/acc51d
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Extending MoS2-based materials into the catalysis of non-acidic hydrogen evolution: challenges, progress, and perspectives

© 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory
Materials Futures, Volume 2, Number 2
  • Received Date: 2022-12-18
  • Accepted Date: 2023-03-14
  • Publish Date: 2023-05-15
doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/acc51d

  • 1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People’s Republic of China

  • 2 School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

  • 3 Department of Building and Real Estate, Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) & Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

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The authors acknowledge the support from the City University of Hong Kong through Projects 9610537 and 7005921, the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province through Project 2022A1515010212, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, and Guangdong Technion–Israel Institute of Technology through Project MATEC2022KF008.

    Abstract
  • The production of hydrogen through water electrolysis (WE) from renewable electricity is set to revolutionise the energy sector that is at present heavily dependent on fossil fuels. However, there is still a pressing need to develop advanced electrocatalysts able to show high activity and withstand industrially-relevant operating conditions for a prolonged period of time. In this regard, high entropy materials (HEMs), including high entropy alloys and high entropy oxides, comprising five or more homogeneously distributed metal components, have emerged as a new class of electrocatalysts owing to their unique properties such as low atomic diffusion, structural stability, a wide variety of adsorption energies and multi-component synergy, making them promising catalysts for challenging electrochemical reactions, including those involved in WE. This review begins with a brief overview about WE technologies and a short introduction to HEMs including their synthesis and general physicochemical properties, followed by a nearly exhaustive summary of HEMs catalysts reported so far for the hydrogen evolution reaction, the oxygen evolution reaction and the overall water splitting in both alkaline and acidic conditions. The review concludes with a brief summary and an outlook about the future development of HEM-based catalysts and further research to be done to understand the catalytic mechanism and eventually deploy HEMs in practical water electrolysers.
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