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Xing J, Guo K, Zou Z, Cai M, Du J, Xu C. In situ growth of well-ordered NiFe-MOF-74 on Ni foam by Fe2+ induction as an efficient and stable electrocatalyst for water oxidation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:7046-7049. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cc03112f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Uniform and well-ordered NiFe-MOF-74 was in situ grown on Ni foam by Fe2+ induction, exhibiting enhanced activity toward the OER with a very low overpotential of 223 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm−2.
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- Jiale Xing
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
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Yu J, Yang F, Cheng G, Luo W. Construction of a hierarchical NiFe layered double hydroxide with a 3D mesoporous structure as an advanced electrocatalyst for water oxidation. Inorg Chem Front 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8qi00314a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A facile and cost-effective one-step hydrothermal method is used to synthesize NiFe LDH microclusters with a 3D hierarchically mesoporous architecture. This superior electrocatalyst can achieve a current density of 10 mA cm−2 with an ultralow overpotential of 211 mV toward the oxygen evolution reaction.
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- Jiahao Yu
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- P. R. China
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Zhang B, Hu S. Turning Ni-based hydroxide into an efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst by fluoride incorporation. Electrochem commun 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Guo K, Zou Z, Du J, Zhao Y, Zhou B, Xu C. Coupling FeSe2 with CoSe: an effective strategy to create stable and efficient electrocatalysts for water oxidation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:11140-11143. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cc06628k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel mutually beneficial CoSe/FeSe2 nanohybrid electrocatalyst was prepared by a simple one-step hydrothermal method, exhibiting enhanced OER performances.
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- Kailu Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of the Ministry of Education
- School of Physical Science and Technology
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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Du J, Yu A, Zou Z, Xu C. One-pot synthesis of iron–nickel–selenide nanorods for efficient and durable electrochemical oxygen evolution. Inorg Chem Front 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c7qi00792b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Fe–Ni–Se nanorods have been synthesized by a facile one-pot method and they acted as efficient and durable OER catalysts.
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- Jing Du
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
- Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design of the Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanzhou University
- Lanzhou 730000
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Wang HF, Tang C, Li BQ, Zhang Q. A review of anion-regulated multi-anion transition metal compounds for oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. Inorg Chem Front 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c7qi00780a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Recent advances in the anion regulation on multi-anion transition metal compounds as electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction are reviewed.
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- Hao-Fan Wang
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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Yan K, Liang Z, Li Z, Zhang M, Huang Y, Wang Y. HMTA-assisted formation of hierarchical Co-based materials built by low-dimensional substructures as water oxidation electrocatalysts. CrystEngComm 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8ce01234b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report a 3D Co-based micro-flower constructed from 2D nanosheets, which exhibits excellent OER performance.
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- Ke Yan
- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Xidian University
- Xi'an 710071
- P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Shaanxi Normal University
- Xi'an
- China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Xidian University
- Xi'an 710071
- P. R. China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Xidian University
- Xi'an 710071
- P. R. China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Xidian University
- Xi'an 710071
- P. R. China
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- School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Xidian University
- Xi'an 710071
- P. R. China
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Indra A, Paik U, Song T. Boosting Electrochemical Water Oxidation with Metal Hydroxide Carbonate Templated Prussian Blue Analogues. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 57:1241-1245. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201710809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Revised: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Arindam Indra
- Department of Energy Engineering; Hanyang University; Seoul 133-791 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering; Hanyang University; Seoul 133-791 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering; Hanyang University; Seoul 133-791 Republic of Korea
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Meng J, Liu X, Li J, Li Q, Zhao C, Xu L, Wang X, Liu F, Yang W, Xu X, Liu Z, Niu C, Mai L. General Oriented Synthesis of Precise Carbon-Confined Nanostructures by Low-Pressure Vapor Superassembly and Controlled Pyrolysis. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:7773-7781. [PMID: 29131634 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Earth-abundant metal-based nanostructured materials have been widely studied for potential energy conversion and storage. However, controlled synthesis of functional nanostructures with high electron conductivity, high reaction activity, and structural stability is still a formidable challenge for further practical applications. Herein, for the first time, we develop a facile, efficient, and general method for the oriented synthesis of precise carbon-confined nanostructures by low-pressure vapor superassembly of a thin metal-organic framework (MOF) shell and subsequent controlled pyrolysis. The selected nanostructured metal oxide precursors not only act as metal ion sources but also orient the superassembly of gaseous organic ligands through the coordination reactions under the low-pressure condition, resulting in the formation of a tunable MOF shell on their surfaces. This strategy is further successfully extended to obtain various precise carbon-confined nanostructures with diverse compositions and delicate morphologies. Notably, these as-prepared carbon-confined architectures exhibit outstanding electrochemical performances in water splitting and lithium storage. The remarkable performances are mainly attributed to the synergistic effect from appropriate chemical compositions and stable carbon-confined structures. This synthetic approach and proposed mechanism open new avenues for the development of functional nanostructured materials in many frontier fields.
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- Jiashen Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Department of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Semiconductors and Efficient Devices, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, International School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, China
- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Cheng Y, Liao F, Shen W, Liu L, Jiang B, Li Y, Shao M. Carbon cloth supported cobalt phosphide as multifunctional catalysts for efficient overall water splitting and zinc-air batteries. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:18977-18982. [PMID: 29182188 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr06859j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Excellent performance and multifunctional electrocatalysts are of great importance for the development of renewable energy. Here, a multifunctional carbon cloth supported cobalt phosphide (CoP@CC) electrocatalyst was synthesized via a simple electrochemical deposition followed by subsequent phosphorization. This self-standing CoP@CC presents superior HER performance in both acid and alkaline media and excellent OER activity in an alkaline environment. When applied as both anode and cathode catalyst to overall water splitting, CoP@CC only required a low cell voltage of 1.68 V to drive a current density of 10 mA cm-2, making this catalyst a potential candidate in industrial application. Moreover, inspired by its satisfying ORR activity, CoP@CC was first used as the air-electrode in zinc-air batteries, which outputted an open-circuit potential of 0.6 V and a power density of ∼30 mW cm-2.
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- Yafei Cheng
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China.
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Kumar A, Bhattacharyya S. Porous NiFe-Oxide Nanocubes as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water-Splitting. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:41906-41915. [PMID: 29115827 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b14096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Electrocatalytic water-splitting, a combination of oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER), is highly attractive in clean energy technologies, especially for high-purity hydrogen production, whereas developing stable, earth-abundant, bifunctional catalysts has continued to pose major challenges. Herein, a mesoporous NiFe-oxide nanocube (NiFe-NC) system is developed from a NiFe Prussian blue analog metal-organic framework as an efficient bifunctional catalyst for overall water-splitting. The NiFe-NCs with ∼200 nm side length have a Ni/Fe molar ratio of 3:2 and is a composite of NiO and α/γ-Fe2O3. The NCs demonstrate overpotentials of 271 and 197 mV for OER and HER, respectively, in 1 M KOH at 10 mA cm-2, which outperform those of 339 and 347 mV for the spherical NiFe-oxide nanoparticles having a similar composition. The electrolyzer constructed using NiFe-NCs requires an impressive cell voltage of 1.67 V to deliver a current density of 10 mA cm-2. Along with a mesoporous structure with a broad pore size distribution, the NiFe-NCs demonstrate the qualities of a desired corrosion-resistant water-splitting catalyst with long-term stability. The exposure of active sites at the edges and vertices of the NCs was validated to play a crucial role in their overall catalytic performance.
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- Ashwani Kumar
- Department of Chemical Sciences, and Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata , Mohanpur 741246, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, and Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata , Mohanpur 741246, India
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Yan D, Li Y, Huo J, Chen R, Dai L, Wang S. Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious-Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1606459. [PMID: 28508469 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 579] [Impact Index Per Article: 82.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Oxygen electrocatalysis, including the oxygen-reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen-evolution reaction (OER), is a critical process for metal-air batteries. Therefore, the development of electrocatalysts for the OER and the ORR is of essential importance. Indeed, various advanced electrocatalysts have been designed for the ORR or the OER; however, the origin of the advanced activity of oxygen electrocatalysts is still somewhat controversial. The enhanced activity is usually attributed to the high surface areas, the unique facet structures, the enhanced conductivities, or even to unclear synergistic effects, but the importance of the defects, especially the intrinsic defects, is often neglected. More recently, the important role of defects in oxygen electrocatalysis has been demonstrated by several groups. To make the defect effect clearer, the recent development of this concept is reviewed here and a novel principle for the design of oxygen electrocatalysts is proposed. An overview of the defects in carbon-based, metal-free electrocatalysts for ORR and various defects in metal oxides/selenides for OER is also provided. The types of defects and controllable strategies to generate defects in electrocatalysts are presented, along with techniques to identify the defects. The defect-activity relationship is also explored by theoretical methods.
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- Dafeng Yan
- State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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- Center of Advanced Science and Engineering for Carbon (Case 4-carbon), Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Provincial Hunan Key Laboratory for Graphene Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, P. R. China
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Yang Z, Zhang JY, Liu Z, Li Z, Lv L, Ao X, Tian Y, Zhang Y, Jiang J, Wang C. "Cuju"-Structured Iron Diselenide-Derived Oxide: A Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:40351-40359. [PMID: 29111645 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b14072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Electrocatalysts with outstanding performance have been highly desired toward exploration of new energy storage and conversion devices/systems as well as making an efficient and eco-friendly utilization of green energy. In this study, we composed an iron-based binary diselenide-derived oxide (Fe-SDO) with a facile one-step hydrothermal method to utilize the earth-abundant iron and the probably prosperous catalytic performance of metal-selenides compounds. The catalyst exhibits an overpotential of 226 mV at a current density of 10 mA/cm2, a Tafel slope of 41 mV dec-1, and robust durability after catalyzing vigorous OER for 36 h constantly. Through several analytical methods conducted before and after the oxygen evolution reaction activation on FeSe2 it was discovered that such catalyst possessed a morphology as "Cuju"-like balls with porosity inside in which we explored the vacancy defects and lattice distortion that play significant roles in generating the high electrocatalytic performance of our proposed catalyst by inducing remarkable electron conductivity in the porous Cuju balls (a Chinese traditional football). Throughout our work the superb electrocatalyst performance of the iron-based compounds was demonstrated, and subsequently the underlying reason for such electrocatalyst performance was addressed, which may push boundaries for the exploration of iron-based compounds as OER catalyst and large-scale commercial application of such compounds in the future.
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- Zhaoxi Yang
- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology , Wuhan 430073, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China
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Xue Y, Ren Z, Xie Y, Du S, Wu J, Meng H, Fu H. CoSe x nanocrystalline-dotted CoCo layered double hydroxide nanosheets: a synergetic engineering process for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:16256-16263. [PMID: 29043351 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr05867e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Manipulating the electrical conductivity and morphology of Co-based (hydr)oxides is significant for optimizing energy conversion in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, 2D CoSex nanocrystalline-dotted porous CoCo layered double hydroxide nanosheets (Co-Se NSs) were designed and synthesized via a modified in situ reduction and interface-directed assembly in an inert atmosphere. During the synchronous reduction/precipitation reaction between Co2+-oleylamine and NaHSe at the toluene-water interface, the hydrated Co-O and Co-Se clusters are generated and sequentially assemble under strong extrusion driven by the interfacial tension. Owing to the enriched vacancies on the lateral surfaces, the obtained loose and porous Co-Se NS presents low crystallinity. Moreover, electrons could spontaneously transfer from the CoCo LDH to the neighboring CoSex nanocrystallites due to the stronger electron-withdrawing capability of metallic CoSex, and thus more Co atoms in the CoCo layered double hydroxide (LDH) present a high oxidation state. This synergistic manipulation in the structure, component, and electron configuration of the Co-Se NS can increase the density of the OER active-sites, improve the electrical conductivity, and also offer a large accessible surface area and permeable channels for ion adsorption and transport. As a result, the resulting Co-Se NSs feature high catalytic activity towards OER, in particular a low onset potential of 1.48 V and an overpotential of only 290 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 for the Co-Se-2 NS, as well as good stability in an accelerated durability test. The strategy developed here provides a reliable and valid way to synthesize multicomponent NSs, and is able to be extended to other areas of application.
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- Yuzhu Xue
- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, 150080 Harbin, P. R. China.
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Nakayama M, Fujimoto K, Kobayakawa T, Okada T. A binder-free thin film anode composed of Co2+-intercalated buserite grown on carbon cloth for oxygen evolution reaction. Electrochem commun 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Wu LK, Wu WY, Xia J, Cao HZ, Hou GY, Tang YP, Zheng GQ. Nanostructured NiCo@NiCoOx core-shell layer as efficient and robust electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Electrochim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.09.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Nai J, Lu Y, Yu L, Wang X, Lou XWD. Formation of Ni-Fe Mixed Diselenide Nanocages as a Superior Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1703870. [PMID: 28922495 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Exploring effective electrocatalysts is a crucial requirement for boosting the efficiency of water splitting to obtain clean fuels. Here, a self-templating strategy is reported to synthesize Ni-Fe mixed diselenide cubic nanocages for the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The diselenide nanocages are derived from corresponding Prussian-blue analog nanocages, which are first obtained by treating the nanocube precursor with a site-selective ammonia etchant. The resulting Ni-Fe mixed diselenide nanocages perform as a superior OER electrocatalyst, which affords a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a small overpotential of 240 mV; a high current density, mass activity, and turnover frequency of 100 mA cm-2 , 1000 A g-1 , and 0.58 s-1 , respectively, at the overpotential of 270 mV; a Tafel slope as small as 24 mV dec-1 ; and excellent stability in alkaline medium.
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- Jianwei Nai
- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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Liu M, Lu X, Guo C, Wang Z, Li Y, Lin Y, Zhou Y, Wang S, Zhang J. Architecting a Mesoporous N-Doped Graphitic Carbon Framework Encapsulating CoTe 2 as an Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:36146-36153. [PMID: 28926695 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b09897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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To improve the efficiency of cobalt-based catalysts for water electrolysis, tremendous efforts have been dedicated to tuning the composition, morphology, size, and structure of the materials. We report here a facile preparation of orthorhombic CoTe2 nanocrystals embedded in an N-doped graphitic carbon matrix to form a 3D architecture with a size of ∼500 nm and abundant mesopores of ∼4 nm for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The hybrid electrocatalyst delivers a small overpotential of 300 mV at 10 mA cm-2, which is much lower than that for pristine CoTe2 powder. After cycling for 2000 cycles or driving continual OER for 20 h, only a slight loss is observed. The mesoporous 3D architecture and the strong interaction between N-doped graphitic carbon and CoTe2 are responsible for the enhancement of the electrocatalytic performance.
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- Ming Liu
- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing and ‡College of Science, China University of Petroleum , Qingdao 266580, P. R. China
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Chen T, Li S, Wen J, Gui P, Fang G. Metal-Organic Framework Template Derived Porous CoSe 2 Nanosheet Arrays for Energy Conversion and Storage. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:35927-35935. [PMID: 28956594 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b12403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Porous CoSe2 on carbon cloth is prepared from a cobalt-based metal organic framework template with etching and selenization reaction, which has both a larger specific surface area and outstanding electrical conductivity. As the catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction, the porous CoSe2 achieves a lower onset potential of 1.48 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) and a small potential of 1.52 V (vs RHE) at an anodic current density of 10 mA cm-2. Especially, the linear sweep voltammogram curve of the porous CoSe2 is in consist with the initial curve after durability test for 24 h. When tested as an electrode for supercapacitor, it can deliver a specific capacitance of 713.9 F g-1 at current density of 1 mA cm-2 and exhibit excellent cycling stability in that a capacitance retention of 92.4% can be maintained after 5000 charge-discharge cycles at 5 mA cm-2. Our work presents a novel strategy for construction of electrochemical electrode.
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- Tian Chen
- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education of China, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education of China, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education of China, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education of China, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education of China, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, PR China
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Zhang JY, Lv L, Tian Y, Li Z, Ao X, Lan Y, Jiang J, Wang C. Rational Design of Cobalt-Iron Selenides for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Water Oxidation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:33833-33840. [PMID: 28849648 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b08917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Exploring active, stable, earth-abundant, low-cost, and high-efficiency electrocatalysts is highly desired for large-scale industrial applications toward the low-carbon economy. In this study, we apply a versatile selenizing technology to synthesize Se-enriched Co1-xFexSe2 catalysts on nickel foams for oxygen evolution reactions (OERs) and disclose the relationship between the electronic structures of Co1-xFexSe2 (via regulating the atom ratio of Co/Fe) and their OER performance. Owing to the fact that the electron configuration of the Co1-xFexSe2 compounds can be tuned by the incorporated Fe species (electron transfer and lattice distortion), the catalytic activity can be adjusted according to the Co/Fe ratios in the catalyst. Moreover, the morphology of Co1-xFexSe2 is also verified to strongly depend on the Co/Fe ratios, and the thinner Co0.4Fe0.6Se2 nanosheets are obtained upon selenization treatment, in which it allows more active sites to be exposed to the electrolyte, in turn promoting the OER performance. The Co0.4Fe0.6Se2 nanosheets not only exhibit superior OER performance with a low overpotential of 217 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and a small Tafel slope of 41 mV dec-1 but also possess ultrahigh durability with a dinky degeneration of 4.4% even after 72 h fierce water oxidation test in alkaline solution, which outperforms the commercial RuO2 catalyst. As expected, the Co0.4Fe0.6Se2 nanosheets have shown great prospects for practical applications toward water oxidation.
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- Jun-Ye Zhang
- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Morgan State University , Baltimore, Maryland 21254, United States
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Ming F, Liang H, Shi H, Mei G, Xu X, Wang Z. Hierarchical (Ni,Co)Se 2 /Carbon Hollow Rhombic Dodecahedra Derived from Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Water-Splitting Electrocatalysis. Electrochim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.08.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Vij V, Sultan S, Harzandi AM, Meena A, Tiwari JN, Lee WG, Yoon T, Kim KS. Nickel-Based Electrocatalysts for Energy-Related Applications: Oxygen Reduction, Oxygen Evolution, and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions. ACS Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b01800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 638] [Impact Index Per Article: 91.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Varun Vij
- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Superfunctional
Materials, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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Hou Y, Qiu M, Zhang T, Zhuang X, Kim CS, Yuan C, Feng X. Ternary Porous Cobalt Phosphoselenide Nanosheets: An Efficient Electrocatalyst for Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1701589. [PMID: 28714078 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201701589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Exploring efficient and earth-abundant electrocatalysts is of great importance for electrocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production. This study demonstrates a novel ternary electrocatalyst of porous cobalt phosphoselenide nanosheets prepared by a combined hydrogenation and phosphation strategy. Benefiting from the enhanced electric conductivity and large surface area, the ternary nanosheets supported on electrochemically exfoliated graphene electrodes exhibit excellent catalytic activity and durability toward hydrogen evolution in alkali, achieving current densities of 10 and 20 mA cm-2 at overpotentials of 150 and 180 mV, respectively, outperforming those reported for transition metal dichalcogenides and first-row transition metal pyrites catalysts. Theoretical calculations reveal that the synergistic effects of Se vacancies and subsequent P displacements of Se atoms around the vacancies in the resulting cobalt phosphoselenide favorably change the electronic structure of cobalt selenide, assuring a rapid charge transfer and optimal energy barrier of hydrogen desorption, and thus promoting the proton kinetics. The overall-water-splitting with 10 mA cm-2 at a low voltage of 1.64 V is achieved using the ternary electrode as both the anode and cathode, and the performance surpasses that of the Ir/C-Pt/C couple for sufficiently high overpotentials. Moreover, the integration of ternary nanosheets with macroporous silicon enables highly efficient solar-driven photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.
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- Yang Hou
- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
- Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education and College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3200 North Cramer Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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Shang X, Yan KL, Rao Y, Dong B, Chi JQ, Liu YR, Li X, Chai YM, Liu CG. In situ cathodic activation of V-incorporated Ni xS y nanowires for enhanced hydrogen evolution. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:12353-12363. [PMID: 28654107 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr02867a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In situ cathodic activation (ISCA) of V-incorporated NixSy nanowires supported on nickel foam (VS/NixSy/NF) can be realized in an alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process, which provides not only clearly enhanced activity but also ultrahigh stability for HER. The ISCA process is continuous linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) on VS/NixSy/NF as a cathodic electrode with gradually enhanced HER activity. The activated VS/NixSy/NF (A-VS/NixSy/NF) demonstrates enhanced HER activity with an overpotential of 125 mV to drive 10 mA cm-2, which is much lower than that of other samples. It may be predicted that the ISCA-derived amorphous VOOH film covering on A-VS/NixSy/NF accelerates the HER process, and NiOOH may protect active sites from decaying, leading to excellent activity and structural stability. However, for single metal sulfides, the ISCA process of nickel or vanadium sulfides is not available, implying that the synergistic effect between Ni and V of VS/NixSy/NF may be the key to drive ISCA in alkaline HER. In addition, its ultra-high stability confirms that the stable active sites and nanostructures of A-VS/NixSy/NF are derived from ISCA. Therefore, the ISCA of V-incorporated transition metal sulfides in the alkaline HER process may be a facile and promising method to obtain efficient electrocatalysts.
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- Xiao Shang
- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, PR China.
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Chaudhari NK, Jin H, Kim B, Lee K. Nanostructured materials on 3D nickel foam as electrocatalysts for water splitting. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:12231-12247. [PMID: 28819660 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr04187j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Highly efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts are essential for water spitting via electrolysis in an economically viable fashion. However, the best catalytic performance is found with noble metal-based electrocatalysts, which presents a formidable obstacle for the commercial success of electrolytic water splitting-based H2 production due to their relatively high cost and scarcity. Therefore, the development of alternative inexpensive earth-abundant electrode materials with excellent electrocatalytic properties is of great urgency. In general, efficient electrocatalysts must possess several key characteristics such as low overpotential, good electrocatalytic activity, high stability, and low production costs. Direct synthesis of nanostructured catalysts on a conducting substrate may potentially improve the performance of the resultant electrocatalysts because of their high catalytic surface areas and the synergistic effect between the electrocatalyst and the conductive substrate. In this regard, three dimensional (3D) nickel foams have been advantageously utilized as electrode substrates as they offer a large active surface area and a highly conductive continuous porous 3D network. In this review, we discuss the most recent developments in nanostructured materials directly synthesized on 3D nickel foam as potential electrode candidates for electrochemical water electrolysis, namely, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). We also provide perspectives and outlooks for catalysts grown directly on 3D conducting substrates for future sustainable energy technologies.
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- Nitin K Chaudhari
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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Xu X, Liang H, Ming F, Qi Z, Xie Y, Wang Z. Prussian Blue Analogues Derived Penroseite (Ni,Co)Se2 Nanocages Anchored on 3D Graphene Aerogel for Efficient Water Splitting. ACS Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Xun Xu
- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Materials
Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College
of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Zhang W, Zhou K. Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials for Highly Efficient Water Oxidation. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2017; 13:1700806. [PMID: 28657693 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201700806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2017] [Revised: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Water oxidation, also known as the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), is a crucial process in energy conversion and storage, especially in water electrolysis. The critical challenge of the electrochemical water splitting technology is to explore alternative precious-metal-free catalysts for the promotion of the kinetically sluggish OER. Recently, emerging two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin materials with abundant accessible active sites and improved electrical conductivity provide an ideal platform for the synthesis of promising OER catalysts. This Review focuses on the most recent advances in ultrathin 2D nanostructured materials for enhanced electrochemical activity of the OER. The design, synthesis and performance of such ultrathin 2D nanomaterials-based OER catalysts and their property-structure relationships are discussed, providing valuable insights to the exploration of novel OER catalysts with high efficiency and low overpotential. The potential research directions are also proposed in the research field.
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- Wang Zhang
- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore, Singapore
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Yan F, Wang Y, Li K, Zhu C, Gao P, Li C, Zhang X, Chen Y. Highly Stable Three-Dimensional Porous Nickel-Iron Nitride Nanosheets for Full Water Splitting at High Current Densities. Chemistry 2017; 23:10187-10194. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Feng Yan
- Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics; Ministry of Education and College of Science; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
- Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials; Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Electronic Engineering; Harbin Normal University; Harbin 150025 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics; Ministry of Education and College of Science; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics; Ministry of Education and College of Science; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics; Ministry of Education and College of Science; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials; Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Electronic Engineering; Harbin Normal University; Harbin 150025 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics; Ministry of Education and College of Science; Harbin Engineering University; Harbin 150001 P. R. China
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Wan S, Qi J, Zhang W, Wang W, Zhang S, Liu K, Zheng H, Sun J, Wang S, Cao R. Hierarchical Co(OH)F Superstructure Built by Low-Dimensional Substructures for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1700286. [PMID: 28585357 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201700286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The development of new materials/structures for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation, which is a key reaction in realizing artificial photosynthesis, is an ongoing challenge. Herein, a Co(OH)F material as a new electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is reported. The as-prepared 3D Co(OH)F microspheres are built by 2D nanoflake building blocks, which are further woven by 1D nanorod foundations. Weaving and building the substructures (1D nanorods and 2D nanoflakes) provides high structural void porosity with sufficient interior space in the resulting 3D material. The hierarchical structure of this Co(OH)F material combines the merits of all material dimensions in heterogeneous catalysis. The anisotropic low-dimensional (1D and 2D) substructures possess the advantages of a high surface-to-volume ratio and fast charge transport. The interconnectivity of the nanorods is also beneficial for charge transport. The high-dimensional (3D) architecture results in sufficient active sites per the projected electrode surface area and is favorable for efficient mass diffusion during catalysis. A low overpotential of 313 mV is required to drive an OER current density of 10 mA cm-2 on a simple glassy carbon (GC) working electrode in a 1.0 m KOH aqueous solution.
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- Shanhong Wan
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
- Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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Jiang WJ, Niu S, Tang T, Zhang QH, Liu XZ, Zhang Y, Chen YY, Li JH, Gu L, Wan LJ, Hu JS. Crystallinity-Modulated Electrocatalytic Activity of a Nickel(II) Borate Thin Layer on Ni3B for Efficient Water Oxidation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201703183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Wen-Jie Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
- College of Chemistry and Material Science; Hebei Normal University; Shijiazhuang 050024 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics; Institute of Physics; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics; Institute of Physics; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science; Hebei Normal University; Shijiazhuang 050024 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics; Institute of Physics; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049 China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences; Institute of Chemistry; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing 100190 China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100049 China
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Jiang WJ, Niu S, Tang T, Zhang QH, Liu XZ, Zhang Y, Chen YY, Li JH, Gu L, Wan LJ, Hu JS. Crystallinity-Modulated Electrocatalytic Activity of a Nickel(II) Borate Thin Layer on Ni 3 B for Efficient Water Oxidation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:6572-6577. [PMID: 28470991 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201703183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The exploration of new efficient OER electrocatalysts based on nonprecious metals and the understanding of the relationship between activity and structure of electrocatalysts are important to advance electrochemical water oxidation. Herein, we developed an efficient OER electrocatalyst with nickel boride (Ni3 B) nanoparticles as cores and nickel(II) borate (Ni-Bi ) as shells (Ni-Bi @NB) via a very simple and facile aqueous reaction. This electrocatalyst exhibited a small overpotential of 302 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and Tafel slope of 52 mV dec-1 . More interestingly, it was found that the OER activity of Ni-Bi @NB was closely dependent on the crystallinity of the Ni-Bi shells. The partially crystalline Ni-Bi catalyst exhibited much higher activity than the amorphous or crystalline analogues; this higher activity originated from the enhanced intrinsic activity of the catalytic sites. These findings open up opportunities to explore nickel(II) borates as a new class of efficient nonprecious metal OER electrocatalysts, and to improve the electrocatalyst performance by modulating their crystallinity.
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- Wen-Jie Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,College of Chemistry and Material Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Zhu W, Zhang R, Qu F, Asiri AM, Sun X. Design and Application of Foams for Electrocatalysis. ChemCatChem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201601607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Wenxin Zhu
- College of Chemistry; Sichuan University; Chengdu 610064 Sichuan China
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- College of Chemistry; Sichuan University; Chengdu 610064 Sichuan China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Qufu Normal University; Qufu 273165 Shandong China
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- Chemistry Department; King Abdulaziz University; Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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- College of Chemistry; Sichuan University; Chengdu 610064 Sichuan China
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Chen H, Gao Y, Sun L. Highly Active Three-Dimensional NiFe/Cu 2 O Nanowires/Cu Foam Electrode for Water Oxidation. CHEMSUSCHEM 2017; 10:1475-1481. [PMID: 28101949 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201601884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 01/18/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Water splitting is of paramount importance for exploiting renewable energy-conversion and -storage systems, but is greatly hindered by the kinetically sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this work, a three-dimensional, highly efficient, and durable NiFe/Cu2 O nanowires/Cu foam anode (NiFe/Cu2 O NWs/CF) for water oxidation in 1.0 m KOH was developed. The obtained electrode exhibited a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a uniquely low overpotential of η=215 mV. The average specific current density (js ) was estimated, on the basis of the electrocatalytically active surface area, to be 0.163 mA cm-2 at η=310 mV. The electrode also displayed a low Tafel slope of 42 mV decade-1 . Moreover, the NiFe/Cu2 O NWs/CF electrode could maintain a steady current density of 100 mA cm-2 for 50 h at an overpotential of η=260 mV. The outstanding electrochemical performance of the electrode for the OER was attributed to the high conductivity of the Cu foam and the specific structure of the electrode with a large interfacial area.
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- Hu Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, DUT, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, DUT, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology, DUT, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden
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Zhang R, Wang X, Yu S, Wen T, Zhu X, Yang F, Sun X, Wang X, Hu W. Ternary NiCo 2 P x Nanowires as pH-Universal Electrocatalysts for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1605502. [PMID: 28028846 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201605502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Revised: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A bimetallic-structured ternary phosphide (NiCo2 Px ) as a novel pH-universal electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction is presented. It exhibits both high activity and long-term stability in all the tested alkaline, neutral, and acidic media. The excellent catalytic performance endows it with a bright future in the large-scale electrochemical water splitting industry.
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- Rui Zhang
- School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- Being National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, P. R. China
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- School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, P. R. China
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- School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Being National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, P. R. China
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- Being National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, China
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Yin J, Li Y, Lv F, Fan Q, Zhao YQ, Zhang Q, Wang W, Cheng F, Xi P, Guo S. NiO/CoN Porous Nanowires as Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Zn-Air Batteries. ACS NANO 2017; 11:2275-2283. [PMID: 28195696 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b00417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The development of highly efficient bifunctional catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is crucial for improving the efficiency of the Zn-air battery. Herein, we report porous NiO/CoN interface nanowire arrays (PINWs) with both oxygen vacancies and a strongly interconnected nanointerface between NiO and CoN domains for promoting the electrocatalytic performance and stability for OER and ORR. Extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy investigations demonstrate that the decrease of the coordination number for cobalt, the enhanced oxygen vacancies on the NiO/CoN nanointerface, and strongly coupled nanointerface between NiO and CoN domains are responsible for the good bifunctional electrocatalytic performance of NiO/CoN PINWs. The primary Zn-air batteries, using NiO/CoN PINWs as an air-cathode, display an open-circuit potential of 1.46 V, a high power density of 79.6 mW cm-2, and an energy density of 945 Wh kg-1. The three-series solid batteries fabricated by NiO/CoN PINWs can support a timer to work for more than 12 h. This work demonstrates the importance of interface coupling and oxygen vacancies in the development of high-performance Zn-air batteries.
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- Jie Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources, Gansu Province/Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University , Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China
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Yang Y, Zhang K, Lin H, Li X, Chan HC, Yang L, Gao Q. MoS2–Ni3S2 Heteronanorods as Efficient and Stable Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting. ACS Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 770] [Impact Index Per Article: 110.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yaqing Yang
- Department
of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China
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- School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory
of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China
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- School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory
of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China
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- School
of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory
of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China
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Wang X, Zheng Y, Yuan J, Shen J, Hu J, Wang AJ, Wu L, Niu L. Porous NiCo Diselenide Nanosheets Arrayed on Carbon Cloth as Promising Advanced Catalysts Used in Water Splitting. Electrochim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.12.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Suen NT, Hung SF, Quan Q, Zhang N, Xu YJ, Chen HM. Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reaction: recent development and future perspectives. Chem Soc Rev 2017; 46:337-365. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00328a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3363] [Impact Index Per Article: 480.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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We review the fundamental aspects of metal oxides, metal chalcogenides and metal pnictides as effective electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction.
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- Nian-Tzu Suen
- Department of Chemistry
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 10617
- Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 10617
- Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment
- College of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment
- College of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment
- College of Chemistry
- Fuzhou University
- Fuzhou
- China
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- Department of Chemistry
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 10617
- Republic of China
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Liang H, Gandi AN, Anjum DH, Wang X, Schwingenschlögl U, Alshareef HN. Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of NiCoP for Efficient Overall Water Splitting. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:7718-7725. [PMID: 27960455 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 443] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Efficient water splitting requires highly active, earth-abundant, and robust catalysts. Monometallic phosphides such as Ni2P have been shown to be active toward water splitting. Our theoretical analysis has suggested that their performance can be further enhanced by substitution with extrinsic metals, though very little work has been conducted in this area. Here we present for the first time a novel PH3 plasma-assisted approach to convert NiCo hydroxides into ternary NiCoP. The obtained NiCoP nanostructure supported on Ni foam shows superior catalytic activity toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) with a low overpotential of 32 mV at -10 mA cm-2 in alkaline media. Moreover, it is also capable of catalyzing the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with high efficiency though the real active sites are surface oxides in situ formed during the catalysis. Specifically, a current density of 10 mA cm-2 is achieved at overpotential of 280 mV. These overpotentials are among the best reported values for non-noble metal catalysts. Most importantly, when used as both the cathode and anode for overall water splitting, a current density of 10 mA cm-2 is achieved at a cell voltage as low as 1.58 V, making NiCoP among the most efficient earth-abundant catalysts for water splitting. Moreover, our new synthetic approach can serve as a versatile route to synthesize various bimetallic or even more complex phosphides for various applications.
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- Hanfeng Liang
- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Zhao X, Zhang H, Yan Y, Cao J, Li X, Zhou S, Peng Z, Zeng J. Engineering the Electrical Conductivity of Lamellar Silver-Doped Cobalt(II) Selenide Nanobelts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 56:328-332. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Revised: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Xu Zhao
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; University of Akron; Akron OH 44325 USA
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale; Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Science Center; National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; Department of Chemical Physics; University of Science and Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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Shi H, Liang H, Ming F, Wang Z. Efficient Overall Water-Splitting Electrocatalysis Using Lepidocrocite VOOH Hollow Nanospheres. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201610211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Huanhuan Shi
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
- Materials Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955 Saudi Arabia
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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Zhao X, Zhang H, Yan Y, Cao J, Li X, Zhou S, Peng Z, Zeng J. Engineering the Electrical Conductivity of Lamellar Silver‐Doped Cobalt(II) Selenide Nanobelts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201609080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Xu Zhao
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Akron Akron OH 44325 USA
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Science Center National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Department of Chemical Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026 P.R. China
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Shi H, Liang H, Ming F, Wang Z. Efficient Overall Water-Splitting Electrocatalysis Using Lepidocrocite VOOH Hollow Nanospheres. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 56:573-577. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Huanhuan Shi
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
- Materials Science and Engineering; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Thuwal 23955 Saudi Arabia
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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Yu J, Li Q, Chen N, Xu CY, Zhen L, Wu J, Dravid VP. Carbon-Coated Nickel Phosphide Nanosheets as Efficient Dual-Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:27850-27858. [PMID: 27696849 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Low-cost and efficient electrocatalysts for overall water splitting are in high demand for a wide range of applications across renewable and clean energy. Here, we report a simple one-step synthesis of a three-dimensional (3D) carbon-coated Ni8P3 nanosheet array as bifunctional catalyst for both hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER). The nanosheet array possesses low overpotentials, high current densities, and small Tafel slopes in both HER and OER and shows high electrocatalytic activities and long-term stability. The carbon layer with high electric conductivity serves not only as a protective layer to prevent Ni8P3 dissolution but also as an active layer to decrease the electrocatalysis overpotential. The nanosheet array has HER outstanding activity in both acid and alkaline media. Its superior performance in OER can be due to the synergistic interaction at the Ni8P3/NiOx heterojunction. Furthermore, cell voltage as low as 1.65 V can achieve 10 mA cm-2 current density for full water splitting in an alkaline water electrolyzer, indicating potential application of C@ Ni8P3 as bifunctional catalyst for clean and renewable energy utilization.
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- Jing Yu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUANCE Center, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUANCE Center, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUANCE Center, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUANCE Center, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Dong Q, Wang Q, Dai Z, Qiu H, Dong X. MOF-Derived Zn-Doped CoSe 2 as an Efficient and Stable Free-Standing Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:26902-26907. [PMID: 27642808 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Developing highly active electrocatalysts with low cost and high efficiency for oxygen evolution reactions (OER) is important for the practical implementations of hydrogen energy. Here, we report a Zn-doped CoSe2 nanosheets grown on free-standing carbon fabric collector (CFC), which was synthesized by using a metal-organic framework (MOF) as precursor and followed by a selenylation process. Importantly, the Zn-doped CoSe2/CFC electrode exhibited an obviously enhanced catalytic activity for OER in 1 M KOH aqueous solution compared with CoSe2/CFC, showing a small overpotential of 356 mV for a current density of 10 mA cm-2, a small Tafel slope of 88 mV dec-1, and an excellent stability. The robust and free-standing electrode shows great potential as an economic catalyst for OER applications.
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- Qiuchun Dong
- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) , 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) , 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) , 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Chongqing 400044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) , 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China
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Tan L, Liu ZQ, Li N, Zhang JY, Zhang L, Chen S. CuSe decorated carbon nanotubes as a high performance cathode catalyst for microbial fuel cells. Electrochim Acta 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.07.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Wang Z, Li J, Tian X, Wang X, Yu Y, Owusu KA, He L, Mai L. Porous Nickel-Iron Selenide Nanosheets as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:19386-92. [PMID: 27400679 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Exploring non-noble and high-efficiency electrocatalysts is critical to large-scale industrial applications of electrochemical water splitting. Currently, nickel-based selenide materials are promising candidates for oxygen evolution reaction due to their low cost and excellent performance. In this work, we report the porous nickel-iron bimetallic selenide nanosheets ((Ni0.75Fe0.25)Se2) on carbon fiber cloth (CFC) by selenization of the ultrathin NiFe-based nanosheet precursor. The as-prepared three-dimensional oxygen evolution electrode exhibits a small overpotential of 255 mV at 35 mA cm(-2) and a low Tafel slope of 47.2 mV dec(-1) and keeps high stability during a 28 h measurement in alkaline solution. The outstanding catalytic performance and strong durability, in comparison to the advanced non-noble metal catalysts, are derived from the porous nanostructure fabrication, Fe incorporation, and selenization, which result in fast charge transportation and large electrochemically active surface area and enhance the release of oxygen bubbles from the electrode surface.
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- Zhaoyang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology , Wuhan 430070, Hubei, People's Republic of China
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Wang J, Tan CF, Zhu T, Ho GW. Topotactic Consolidation of Monocrystalline CoZn Hydroxides for Advanced Oxygen Evolution Electrodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:10326-30. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201605096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Jing Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
- Engineering Science Programme; National University of Singapore; 9 Engineering Drive 1 Singapore 117575 Singapore
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research); 2 Fusionopolis Way Singapore 138634 Singapore
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Wang J, Tan CF, Zhu T, Ho GW. Topotactic Consolidation of Monocrystalline CoZn Hydroxides for Advanced Oxygen Evolution Electrodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201605096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Jing Wang
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; National University of Singapore; 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117583 Singapore
- Engineering Science Programme; National University of Singapore; 9 Engineering Drive 1 Singapore 117575 Singapore
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research); 2 Fusionopolis Way Singapore 138634 Singapore
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de Silva U, Liyanage WPR, Nath M. Magnetic Multifunctional Nanostructures as High-efficiency Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reactions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1557/adv.2016.399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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