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Tan P, Wu Y, Tan Y, Xiang Y, Zhou L, Han N, Jiang Y, Bao SJ, Zhang X. In Situ Fast Construction of Ni 3S 4/FeS Catalysts on 3D Foam Structure Achieving Stable Large-Current-Density Water Oxidation. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2308371. [PMID: 38150631 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202308371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
Abstract
By increasing the content of Ni3+, the catalytic activity of nickel-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is still problematic with current synthesis routes, can be increased. Herein, a Ni3+-rich of Ni3S4/FeS on FeNi Foam (Ni3S4/FeS@FNF) via anodic electrodeposition to direct obtain high valence metal ions for OER catalyst is presented. XPS showed that the introduction of Fe not only further increased the Ni3+ concentration in Ni3S4/FeS to 95.02%, but also inhibited the dissolution of NiOOH by up to seven times. Furthermore, the OER kinetics is enhanced by the combination of the inner Ni3S4/FeS heterostructures and the electrochemically induced surface layers of oxides/hydroxides. Ni3S4/FeS@FNF shows the most excellent OER activity with a low Tafel slope of 11.2 mV dec-1 and overpotentials of 196 and 445 mV at current densities of 10 and 1400 mA cm-2, respectively. Furthermore, the Ni3S4/FeS@FNF catalyst can be operated stably at 1500 mA cm-2 for 200 h without significant performance degradation. In conclusion, this work has significantly increased the high activity Ni3+ content in nickel-based OER electrocatalysts through an anodic electrodeposition strategy. The preparation process is time-saving and mature, which is expected to be applied in large-scale industrialization.
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- Pingping Tan
- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
- ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Centre, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311200, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, bus 2450, Heverlee, B-3001, Belgium
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, bus 2450, Heverlee, B-3001, Belgium
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- ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Centre, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311200, P. R. China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Centre, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311200, P. R. China
- Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, bus 2450, Heverlee, B-3001, Belgium
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Ou W, Zhang W, Qin H, Zhou W, Tang Y, Gao Q. Enhancing anti-chlorine corrosion of Ni 3S 2 by Mo-doping for mimic seawater electrolysis. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 655:852-862. [PMID: 37979291 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.11.054] [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: 09/23/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/20/2023]
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Designing highly active electrocatalysts that can resist chloride ion (Cl-) corrosion during seawater electrolysis is still a challenge. Here, Mo-doping is introduced to synchronously improve the electrocatalytic activity and anti-chlorine corrosion of Ni3S2 toward the efficient overall seawater splitting. With commercial nickel-molybdenum foam (NMF) as the reactive substrates, Mo-doped Ni3S2 columnar arrays (Mo-Ni3S2/NMF) are fabricated via a one-step hydrothermal process, which expose abundant active sites with the ameliorated surface electronic configurations toward the enhanced binding with *OH (* denotes an active site) but the weakened one with *Cl. As expected, they afford the excellent bi-functionality for both oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER), with the remarkably improved anti-corrosion to Cl- at anode as compared to pristine Ni3S2. In alkaline mimic seawater (1.0 M NaOH + 0.5 M NaCl), Mo-Ni3S2/NMF requires 330 mV (for OER) and 209 mV (for HER) overpotentials at the current density of ±100 mA cm-2, and a low cell voltage of 1.52 V at 10 mA cm-2 for overall seawater splitting. This work highlights a feasible strategy to explore highly active and stable electrocatalysts for sustainable H2 production.
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- Wanjun Ou
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632, PR China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (iAIR), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632, PR China.
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