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Published May 29, 2018 | Supplemental Material
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Phase Directing Ability of an Ionic Liquid Solvent for the Synthesis of HER-Active Ni_2P Nanocrystals

Abstract

An ionic liquid (IL) solvent was used to synthesize small, phase-pure nickel phosphide (Ni_2P) nanocrystals. In contrast, under analogous reaction conditions, substitution of the IL for the common high-boiling organic solvent 1-octadecene (ODE) results in phase-impure nanocrystals. The 5 nm Ni_2P nanocrystals prepared in IL were electrocatalytically active toward the hydrogen evolution reaction. The synthesis in IL was also extended to alloyed Ni_(2–x)Co_xP nanocrystals, where 0.5 ≤ x ≤ 1.5.

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© 2018 American Chemical Society. Received: February 13, 2018; Accepted: May 3, 2018; Published: May 3, 2018. R.L.B. acknowledges NSF for supporting the synthetic chemistry under CMMI-1728649. N.S.L. acknowledges NSF for supporting the electrochemical characterization work under the NSF CCI Solar Fuels Program CHE-1305124. C.G.R. acknowledges the Resnick Sustainability Institute for a postdoctral fellowship. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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