The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal ?-InSe

Felton, James; Blundo, Elena; Ling, Sanliang; Glover, Joseph; Kudrynskyi, Zakhar R; Makarovsky, Oleg; Kovalyuk, Zakhar D; Besley, Elena; Walker, Gavin; Polimeni, Antonio

doi:10.3390/molecules25112526

Authors

James Felton

Elena Blundo

SANLIANG LING SANLIANG.LING@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Assistant Professor

Joseph Glover

ZAKHAR KUDRYNSKYI ZAKHAR.KUDRYNSKYI@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Research Fellow

OLEG MAKAROVSKIY Oleg.Makarovsky@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Zakhar D Kovalyuk

Professor ELENA BESLEY Elena.Besley@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Theoretical Computational Chemistry

GAVIN WALKER gavin.walker@nottingham.ac.uk
The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Chair in Sustainable Energy

Antonio Polimeni

Professor AMALIA PATANE amalia.patane@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Physics

Abstract

The emergence of the hydrogen economy requires development in the storage, generation and sensing of hydrogen. The indium selenide (?-InSe) van der Waals (vdW) crystal shows promise for technologies in all three of these areas. For these applications to be realised, the fundamental interactions of InSe with hydrogen must be understood. Here, we present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study on the interaction of ?-InSe with hydrogen. It is shown that hydrogenation of ?-InSe by a Kaufman ion source results in a marked quenching of the room temperature photoluminescence signal and a modification of the vibrational modes of ?-InSe, which are modelled by density functional theory simulations. Our experimental and theoretical studies indicate that hydrogen is incorporated into the crystal preferentially in its atomic form. This behaviour is qualitatively different from that observed in other vdW crystals, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, where molecular hydrogen is intercalated in the vdW gaps of the crystal, leading to the formation of "bubbles" for hydrogen storage.

Citation

Felton, J., Blundo, E., Ling, S., Glover, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovsky, O., …Patané, A. (2020). The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal γ-InSe. Molecules, 25(11), Article 2526. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112526

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 23, 2020
Online Publication Date	May 28, 2020
Publication Date	May 28, 2020
Deposit Date	May 28, 2020
Publicly Available Date	May 29, 2020
Journal	Molecules
Publisher	MDPI
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	25
Issue	11
Article Number	2526
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112526
Keywords	indium selenide; intercalation; Kaufman ion source; Raman; photoluminescence; van der Waals crystals; hydrogen
Public URL	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4523685
Publisher URL	https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/11/2526