Achievements, challenges and opportunities in hydrogen production fromwater/seawater splitting using boron-based materials

作     者：Yiran Zhang Yang Xu Qi Zhou Junjun Li Xinyi Wang Zhenwei Zhao Zhicheng Zhang 张怡然;徐洋;周麒;李俊俊;王鑫亿;赵贞薇;张志成

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Organic Integrated CircuitsMinistry of Education&Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic SciencesDepartment of ChemistrySchool of ScienceTianjin UniversityTianjin 300072China Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China 

出 版 物：《Science China Materials》 (中国科学(材料科学)(英文版))

年 卷 期：2025年第68卷第2期

页      面：341-363页

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学科分类：08[工学] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22071172, 22375142) CNPC Innovation Fund (2022DQ02-0408) 2022 Subsidized Project of Tianjin University Graduate Arts and Science Excellence Innovation Award Program (B2-2022002) 

主　　题：water/seawater splitting transition metal borides hydrogen production 

摘      要：Water splitting is recognized as an environmentally friendly and feasible method to produce ***, the high cost, low storage capacity, and poorstability of traditional noble metal-based electrocatalysts haveseverely limited the industrial application of electrocatalyticwater splitting. The utilization of seawater splitting not onlyfacilitates the production of high-purity hydrogen on a largescale but also concurrently promotes the desalination *** the past decades, transition metal borides (TMBs) havebeen widely used in the field of water splitting due to theadvantages of simple preparation process, good stability, andeasily adjustable composition. This review summarizes therecent progress of TMBs in the electrolysis of water and ***, the influencing factors of electrocatalytic performance and related evaluations are introduced. The basicprinciples of hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolutionreaction, and chlorine evolution reaction in seawater electrolysisare discussed in detail, pointing out the various problemscaused by chloride ions (Cl^(−)) in the process of hydrogenproduction from seawater splitting. In addition, the preparation and optimization strategies of TMBs are ***, the development, challenges, and prospects of electrolytic seawater hydrogen production technology are presented. This review aims to furnish deeper insights intoenhancing the electrocatalytic performance of TMBs in thiscritical area of research.