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Zhao T, Zhong D, Fang Q, Li D, Hao G, Liu G, Li J, Zhao Q. Shifting the Oxygen-Evolution Reaction Pathway via Cation Engineering to Activate Lattice Oxygen in Metal-Organic Frameworks. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:27291-27300. [PMID: 38743291 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c01872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as promising electrocatalysts have been widely studied, but their performance is limited by conductivity and coordinating saturation. This study proposes a cationic (V) modification strategy and evaluates its effect on the electrocatalytic performance of CoFe-MOF nanosheet arrays. The optimal V-CoFe-MOF/NF electrocatalyst exhibits excellent oxygen-evolution reaction (OER)/hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER) performance (231 mV at 100 mA cm-2/86 mV at 10 mA cm-2) in alkaline conditions, with its OER durability exceeding 400 h without evident degradation. Furthermore, as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting, a small cell voltage is achieved (1.60 V at 10 mA cm-2). The practicability of the catalyst is further evaluated by membrane electrode assembly (MEA), showing outstanding activity (1.53 V at 10 mA cm-2) and long-term stability (at 300 mA cm-2). Moreover, our results reveal the apparent reconstruction properties of V-CoFe-MOF/NF in alkaline electrolytes, where the partially dissolved V promotes the formation of more active β-MOOH. The mechanism study shows the OER mechanism shifts to a lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism (LOM) after V doping, which directly avoids complex multistep adsorption mechanism and reduces reaction energy. This study provides a cation mediated strategy for designing efficient electrocatalysts.
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- Tao Zhao
- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Energy Storage and Novel Cell Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, Shandong, P.R. China
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- Shanxi College of Technology, Shuozhou 036000, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
- Shanxi Key Laboratory of Gas Energy Efficient and Clean Utilization, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, P.R. China
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Zhang T, Liu Z, Zhou S, Jin L, Zhang Q, Lin D, Jin H, Tang T, Gu P, Lv JJ. Construction active sites in nickel sulfide by dual-doping vanadium/cobalt for highly effective oxygen evolution reaction. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 655:167-175. [PMID: 37931556 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.10.161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Rational design and exploration of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts with exceptional performance are crucial for the advancement of the hydrogen energy economy. In this study, vanadium/cobalt (V/Co) dual-doped nickel sulfide (Ni3S2) nanowires were synthesized on a nickel foam (NF) substrate to overcome the sluggish kinetics typically associated with OER. The resulting catalyst exhibited outstanding electrocatalytic activity towards OER in a 1.0 M KOH electrolyte, with a minimal overpotential of 155 and 263 mV, the current densities of 10 and 100 mA cm-2 can be achieved effortlessly. Importantly, this catalyst demonstrated remarkable stability over extended periods, maintaining its performance for 25 h under constant current density, 55 h under continuously varying current density, and even after undergoing 2000 cycles of cyclic voltammetry (CV), which had surpassed those of most non-noble metal electrocatalysts. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory analyses confirmed that the co-doping of Co and V redistributed the electron of Ni, leading to improvements in the d-band center, structural characteristics, and free energy landscapes of adsorbed intermediates. This work presents a novel strategy, based on the connection between electronic structure and catalytic properties, in the design of double-doped catalysts for efficient OER.
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- Tingyu Zhang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province Institute of New Materials and Industrial Technologies, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province Institute of New Materials and Industrial Technologies, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province Institute of New Materials and Industrial Technologies, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province Institute of New Materials and Industrial Technologies, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
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Huang S, Ma S, Liu L, Jin Z, Gao P, Peng K, Jiang Y, Naseri A, Hu Z, Zhang J. P-doped Co 3S 4/NiS 2 heterostructures embedded in N-doped carbon nanoboxes: Synergistical electronic structure regulation for overall water splitting. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 652:369-379. [PMID: 37598436 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.08.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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Water splitting using transition metal sulfides as electrocatalysts has gained considerable attention in the field of renewable energy. However, their electrocatalytic activity is often hindered by unfavorable free energies of adsorbed hydrogen and oxygen-containing intermediates. Herein, phosphorus (P)-doped Co3S4/NiS2 heterostructures embedded in N-doped carbon nanoboxes were rationally synthesized via a pyrolysis-sulfidation-phosphorization strategy. The hollow structure of the carbon matrix and the nanoparticles contained within it not only result in a high specific surface area, but also protects them from corrosion and acts as a conductive pathway for efficient electron transfer. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the introduction of P dopants improves the conductivity of NiS2 and Co3S4, promotes the charge transfer process, and creates new electrocatalytic sites. Additionally, the NiS2-Co3S4 heterojunctions can enhance the adsorption efficiency of hydrogen intermediates (H*) and lower the energy barrier of water splitting via a synergistic effect with P-doping. These characteristics collectively enable the titled catalyst to exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity for water splitting in alkaline medium, requiring only small overpotentials of 150 and 257 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA cm-2 for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, respectively. This work sheds light on the design and optimization of efficient electrocatalysts for water splitting, with potential implications for renewable energy production.
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- Shoushuang Huang
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Nanotechnology Department, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj 3135933151, Iran.
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- Division of Molecular Surface Physics & Nanoscience, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping 58183, Sweden.
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- Institute for Sustainable Energy/College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Construction of tubular carbon matrix-supported NiCoP-NiS2 nanowires with heterointerfaces for overall water splitting. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.130516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Plasma-modified iron-doped Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays as efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. ARAB J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2022.104317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Bera K, Karmakar A, Kumaravel S, Sam Sankar S, Madhu R, N Dhandapani H, Nagappan S, Kundu S. Vanadium-Doped Nickel Cobalt Layered Double Hydroxide: A High-Performance Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst in Alkaline Medium. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:4502-4512. [PMID: 35230844 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Vast attention from researchers is being given to the development of suitable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts via water electrolysis. Being highly abundant, the use of transition-metal-based OER catalysts has been attractive more recently. Among the various transition-metal-based electrocatalysts, the use of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) has gained special attention from researchers owing to their high stability under OER conditions. In this work, we have reported the synthesis of trimetallic NiCoV-LDH via a simple wet-chemical method. The synthesized NiCoV-LDH possesses aggregated sheet-like structures and is screened for OER studies in alkaline medium. In the study of OER activity, the as-prepared catalyst demanded 280 mV overpotential and this was 42 mV less than the overpotential essential for pristine NiCo-LDH. Moreover, doping of a third metal into the NiCo-LDH system might lead to an increase in TOF values by almost three times. Apart from this, the electronic structural evaluation confirms that the doping of V3+ into NiCo-LDH could synergistically favor the electron transfer among the metal ions, which in turn increases the activity of the prepared catalyst toward the OER.
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- Krishnendu Bera
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.,Electrochemical Process Engineering (EPE) Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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