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| author | Jiang, Ming-Chun Guo, Guang-Yu Hirayama, Motoaki Yu, Tonghua Nomoto, Takuya Arita, Ryotaro |
| author_facet | Jiang, Ming-Chun Guo, Guang-Yu Hirayama, Motoaki Yu, Tonghua Nomoto, Takuya Arita, Ryotaro |
| contents | Materials carrying topological surface states (TSS) provide a fascinating platform for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Based on systematic first-principles calculations for $A_3 B$ ($A$ = Ni, Pd, Pt; $B$ = Si, Ge, Sn), we propose that topological electric polarization characterized by the Zak phase can be crucial to designing efficient catalysts for the HER. For $A_3 B$, we show that the Zak phase takes a nontrivial value of $π$ in the whole (111) projected Brillouin zone, which causes quantized electric polarization charge at the surface. There, depending on the adsorption sites, the hydrogen (H) atom hybridizes with the TSS rather than with the bulk states. When the hybridization has an intermediate character between the covalent and ionic bond, the H states are localized in the energy spectrum, and the change in the Gibbs free energy ($ΔG$) due to the H adsorption becomes small. Namely, the interaction between the H states and the substrate becomes considerably weak, which is a highly favorable situation for the HER. Notably, we show that $ΔG$ for Pt$_3$Sn and Pd$_3$Sn are just -0.066 and -0.092 eV, respectively, which are almost half of the value of Pt. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient hydrogen evolution reaction due to topological polarization Jiang, Ming-Chun Guo, Guang-Yu Hirayama, Motoaki Yu, Tonghua Nomoto, Takuya Arita, Ryotaro Materials Science Materials carrying topological surface states (TSS) provide a fascinating platform for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Based on systematic first-principles calculations for $A_3 B$ ($A$ = Ni, Pd, Pt; $B$ = Si, Ge, Sn), we propose that topological electric polarization characterized by the Zak phase can be crucial to designing efficient catalysts for the HER. For $A_3 B$, we show that the Zak phase takes a nontrivial value of $π$ in the whole (111) projected Brillouin zone, which causes quantized electric polarization charge at the surface. There, depending on the adsorption sites, the hydrogen (H) atom hybridizes with the TSS rather than with the bulk states. When the hybridization has an intermediate character between the covalent and ionic bond, the H states are localized in the energy spectrum, and the change in the Gibbs free energy ($ΔG$) due to the H adsorption becomes small. Namely, the interaction between the H states and the substrate becomes considerably weak, which is a highly favorable situation for the HER. Notably, we show that $ΔG$ for Pt$_3$Sn and Pd$_3$Sn are just -0.066 and -0.092 eV, respectively, which are almost half of the value of Pt. |
| title | Efficient hydrogen evolution reaction due to topological polarization |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10337 |