Abstract
The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and electronic properties of single-layered TiO2 nanosheets effectively modulated by transition-metal doping and biaxial strain were investigated in this work. Surprisingly, the hydrogen adsorption free energy of Cr-doped LNS-TiO2 nanosheets was reduced to almost 0 eV, which is comparable to the well-known highly efficient catalyst of Pt metal. The tunable hydrogen adsorption ability was correlated with the O-2pz band center level. Moreover, by upshifting the pz band center level, both the tensile and compressive strains could decrease the hydrogen adsorption free energy of V-doped LNS-TiO2 nanosheets, even close to 0 eV with 7% tensile strain. These insights open a new avenue into realizing high HER activity in oxide nanosheets.
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