Issue 16, 2022

Strain engineering in single-atom catalysts: GaPS4 for bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution

Abstract

We report here a theoretical study on 34 transition metal doped two-dimensional GaPS4 catalysts, denoted as transition metal transition metal@VS-GaPS4. Among them, the Pt@VS1-GaPS4 single-atom catalyst is found to be stable with an ORR/OER overpotential of 0.59/0.41 V. Under the guidance of a volcano map, further biaxial strain engineering is adopted to tune the activity of Pt@VS1-GaPS4 to the top of the volcano. The overpotentials of the OER/ORR are decreased to 0.37/0.33 V by applying a 3% tensile strain. Our results prove that Pt@VS1-GaPS4 is an excellent candidate for OER/ORR bifunctional electrocatalysis. Moreover, bond angles and the highest occupied orbitals of the doped transition metal atoms can be used as descriptors to explain the underlying strain tunability mechanism. The machine learning method further predicts that the number of d electrons, the bond length and electronegativity are three main descriptors to determine the catalytic activity.

Graphical abstract: Strain engineering in single-atom catalysts: GaPS4 for bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution

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Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
12 May 2022
Accepted
30 Jun 2022
First published
02 Jul 2022

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022,9, 4272-4280

Strain engineering in single-atom catalysts: GaPS4 for bifunctional oxygen reduction and evolution

X. Liu, T. Liu, W. Xiao, W. Wang, Y. Zhang, G. Wang, Z. Luo and J. Liu, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022, 9, 4272 DOI: 10.1039/D2QI01047J

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