Catalytic Performance of MXene/TMD Composites in Alkaline media for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

The development of renewable energy sources is needed to reduce the use of fossil fuels. For this reason, many research centers are exploring water splitting as a green method to produce hydrogen using different catalysts. Among the new emerging catalysts, low dimensional materials such as transition metal carbide/nitrides (MXene) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are intensively studied due to their excellent catalytic activity [1]. MXene can be dispersed through chemical means in aqueous solutions resulting in thin crystals with high conductivity, hydrophilic, and with the possibility of doping [2]. Consequently, in this talk, we will discuss the kinetics of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in composites of transition metal dichalcogenides TMD (MS2) and MXene (Ti3C2) with different proportions in alkaline media deposited with two methods, drop-casting and electrophoretic deposition.