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Low-cost Industrially Available Molybdenum Boride and Carbide as "Platinum-Like" Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Biphasic Liquid Systems

Low-cost Industrially Available Molybdenum Boride and Carbide as "Platinum-Like" Catalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Biphasic Liquid Systems

Micheál D Scanlon, Xiaojun Bian, Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, Kurt Schenk, Xile Hu, BaoHong Liu, Hubert H Girault

Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2013 Feb 28;15(8):2847-57.

PMID: 23338557

Abstract:

Rarely reported low-cost molybdenum boride and carbide microparticles, both of which are available in abundant quantities due to their widespread use in industry, adsorb at aqueous acid-1,2-dichloroethane interfaces and efficiently catalyse the hydrogen evolution reaction in the presence of the organic electron donor - decamethylferrocene. Kinetic studies monitoring biphasic reactions by UV/vis spectroscopy, and further evidence provided by gas chromatography, highlight (a) their superior rates of catalysis relative to other industrially significant transition metal carbides and silicides, as well as a main group refractory compound, and (b) their highly comparable rates of catalysis to Pt microparticles of similar dimensions. Insight into the catalytic processes occurring for each adsorbed microparticle was obtained by voltammetry at the liquid-liquid interface.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP12006983	Molybdenum boride		12006-98-3	Price

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