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Wang G, Chen Q, Zhang J, An X, Liu Q, Xie L, Yao W, Sun X, Kong Q. Ru doped NiMoO 4 nanoarray as a high-efficiency electrocatalyst for nitrite reduction to ammonia. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 661:401-408. [PMID: 38306749 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.195] [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: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
Abstract
The electrocatalytic reduction of nitrite to recyclable ammonia (NH3) is essential to maintain nitrogen balance and meet growing energy requirements. Herein, we report that Ru doped honeycomb NiMoO4 nanosheet with copious oxygen vacancies grown on nickel foam substrate has been prepared by a facile hydrothermal synthesis and immersion process, which can act as an efficient electrocatalyst for NH3 synthesis by reduction of nitrite. By optimizing the concentration of RuCl3 solution, 0.01Ru-NiMoO4/NF possesses excellent NO2-RR performance with NH3 yield of 20249.17 ± 637.42 μg h-1 cm-2 at -0.7 V and FE of 95.56 ± 0.72 % at -0.6 V. When assembled into a Zn-NO2- battery, it provides a remarkable level of power density of 13.89 mW cm-2, outperforming the performance of virtually all previous reports. The efficient adsorption and activation of NO2- over Ru-doped NiMoO4 with oxygen vacancy have been verified by density functional theory calculations, as well as the possible reaction pathway.
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- Guoguo Wang
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, China; College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China; Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, Sichuan, China.
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Zhang C, Song H, Wang Z, Ye Q, Zhang D, Zhao Y, Ma J, Cheng Y. Titanium Dioxide and N-Doped Carbon Hybrid Nanofiber Modulated Ru Nanoclusters for High-Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2311667. [PMID: 38507721 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
The designing and fabricating highly active hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts that can superior to Pt/C is extremely desirable but challenging. Herein, the fabrication of Ru/TiO2/N-doped carbon (Ru/TiO2/NC) nanofiber is reported as a novel and highly active HER electrocatalyst through electrospinning and subsequent pyrolysis treatment, in which Ru nanoclusters are dispersed into TiO2/NC hybrid nanofiber. As a novel support, experimental and theoretical calculation results reveal that TiO2/NC can more effectively accelerate water dissociation as well as optimize the adsorption strength of *H than TiO2 and NC, thus leading to a significantly enhanced HER activity, which merely requires an overpotential of 18 mV to reach 10 mA cm-2, outperforming Pt/C in an alkaline solution. The electrolytic cell composed of Ru/TiO2/NC nanofiber and NiFe LDH/NF can generate 500 and 1000 mA cm-2 at voltages of 1.631 and 1.753 V, respectively. Furthermore, the electrolytic cell also exhibits remarkable durability for at least 100 h at 200 mA cm-2 with negligible degradation in activity. The present work affords a deep insight into the influence of support on the activity of electrocatalyst and the strategy proposed in this research can also be extended to fabricate various other types of electrocatalysts for diverse electrocatalytic applications.
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- Chenxi Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Carbon Neutral Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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