Joy Spears, Mina Shawky Adly, Edison Castro, Alain R Puente Santiago, Luis Echegoyen, Tianwei He, Christopher J Dares, Mohamed Noufal
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Understanding the effects of adduct functionalization on C60 nanocages for the hydrogen evolution reaction.
In this work, we use experimental and theoretical techniques to study the origin of the boosted hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalytic activity of two pyridyl-pyrrolidine functionalized C60 fullerenes. Notably, the mono-(pyridyl-pyrrolidine) penta-adduct of C60 has exhibited a remarkable HER catalytic activity as a metal-free catalyst, delivering an overpotential (η10) of 75 mV vs. RHE and a very low onset potential of -45 mV vs. RHE. This work addresses fundamental questions about how functionalization on C60 changes the electron density on fullerene cages for high-performance HER electrocatalysis.
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