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Study of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Molybdenum Oxide Doped TiO2 Nanotubes

몰리브덴 산화물이 도핑된 티타늄 나노튜브전극의 수소 발생 반응 연구

  • Oh, Kiseok (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Yoo, Hyeonseok (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Lee, Gibaek (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Choi, Jinsub (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inha University)
  • 오기석 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과) ;
  • 유현석 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과) ;
  • 이기백 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과) ;
  • 최진섭 (인하대학교 화학.화학공학융합학과)
  • Received : 2016.11.01
  • Accepted : 2016.11.29
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

In this study, titanium nanotubes, prepared by anodization method, showing high surface and strong chemical stability in acidic and basic media, have been employed for the application to the electrodes for water splitting in KOH solution. Due to its high polarization resistance of $TiO_2$ itself, proper catalysts are essentially required to reduce overpotentials for water oxidation and reduction. Most of academic literature showed noble metal catalysts for foreign dopants in $TiO_2$ electrodes. From commercialization point of view, screening of low-cost catalyst is important. Herein, we propose molybdenum oxide as low-cost catalysts among various catalysts tested in the experiments, which exhibits the highest performance for hydrogen evolution reaction in highly alkaline solution. We showed that molybdenum oxide doped electrode can be operated in extreme acidic and basic conditions as well.

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