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Ha JS, Park Y, Jeong J, Lee SH, Lee SJ, Kim IT, Park SH, Jin H, Kim SM, Choi S, Kim C, Choi SM, Kang BK, Lee HM, Park YS. Solar-Powered AEM Electrolyzer via PGM-Free (Oxy)hydroxide Anode with Solar to Hydrogen Conversion Efficiency of 12.44. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2401782. [PMID: 38654698 PMCID: PMC11220676 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202401782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Water electrolyzers powered by renewable energy are emerging as clean and sustainable technology for producing hydrogen without carbon emissions. Specifically, anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzers utilizing non-platinum group metal (non-PGM) catalysts have garnered attention as a cost-effective method for hydrogen production, especially when integrated with solar cells. Nonetheless, the progress of such integrated systems is hindered by inadequate water electrolysis efficiency, primarily caused by poor oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrodes. To address this issue, a NiFeCo─OOH has developed as an OER electrocatalyst and successfully demonstrated its efficacy in an AEM electrolyzer, which is powered by renewable electricity and integrated with a silicon solar cell.
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- Jun Seok Ha
- Department of Advanced Material EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1, Seowon‐GuCheongjuChungbuk28644Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering (KAIST)Daejeon34141Republic of Korea
- Hydrogen Research DepartmentKorea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)152 Gajeong‐roYuseong‐guDaejeon34129Republic of Korea
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- Department of Hydrogen Energy MaterialsSurface & Nano Materials DivisionKorea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)Changwon51508Republic of Korea
- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringPusan National UniversityBusan46241Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringPusan National UniversityBusan46241Republic of Korea
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- Department of Advanced Material EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1, Seowon‐GuCheongjuChungbuk28644Republic of Korea
- Department of Urban, Energy, and Environmental EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1Seowon‐Gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk28644Republic of Korea
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- Department of Advanced Material EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1, Seowon‐GuCheongjuChungbuk28644Republic of Korea
- Department of Urban, Energy, and Environmental EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1Seowon‐Gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk28644Republic of Korea
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- Department of Advanced Material EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1, Seowon‐GuCheongjuChungbuk28644Republic of Korea
- Department of Urban, Energy, and Environmental EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1Seowon‐Gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk28644Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical & Materials EngineeringWorcester Polytechnic Institute100 Institute RoadWorcesterMA01609USA
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- Nano Electronic Materials and Components Research CenterGumi Electronics and Information Technology Research InstituteSandongmyeonGumi 39171Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringPusan National UniversityBusan46241Republic of Korea
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- Department of Hydrogen Energy MaterialsSurface & Nano Materials DivisionKorea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)Changwon51508Republic of Korea
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- Department of Hydrogen Energy MaterialsSurface & Nano Materials DivisionKorea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)Changwon51508Republic of Korea
- Advanced Materials EngineeringUniversity of Science and Technology (UST)Daejeon34113Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electronic Materials, Devices, and Equipment EngineeringSoonchunhyang University22, Soonchunhyang‐roAsan CityChungnam31538Republic of Korea
- Department of Display Materials EngineeringSoonchunhyang University22, Soonchunhyang‐roAsan CityChungnam31538Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering (KAIST)Daejeon34141Republic of Korea
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- Department of Advanced Material EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1, Seowon‐GuCheongjuChungbuk28644Republic of Korea
- Department of Urban, Energy, and Environmental EngineeringChungbuk National UniversityChungdae‐ro 1Seowon‐Gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk28644Republic of Korea
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Hegazy MBZ, Zander J, Weiss M, Simon C, Gerschel P, Sanden SA, Smialkowski M, Tetzlaff D, Kull T, Marschall R, Apfel UP. FeNi 2 S 4 -A Potent Bifunctional Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting in Alkaline Electrolyte. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2311627. [PMID: 38462958 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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For a carbon-neutral society, the production of hydrogen as a clean fuel through water electrolysis is currently of great interest. Since water electrolysis is a laborious energetic reaction, it requires high energy to maintain efficient and sustainable production of hydrogen. Catalytic electrodes can reduce the required energy and minimize production costs. In this context, herein, a bifunctional electrocatalyst made from iron nickel sulfide (FeNi2 S4 [FNS]) for the overall electrochemical water splitting is introduced. Compared to Fe2 NiO4 (FNO), FNS shows a significantly improved performance toward both OER and HER in alkaline electrolytes. At the same time, the FNS electrode exhibits high activity toward the overall electrochemical water splitting, achieving a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at 1.63 V, which is favourable compared to previously published nonprecious electrocatalysts for overall water splitting. The long-term chronopotentiometry test reveals an activation followed by a subsequent stable overall cell potential at around 2.12 V for 20 h at 100 mA cm-2 .
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- Mohamed Barakat Zakaria Hegazy
- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
- Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt), University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology, 46047, Oberhausen, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology, 46047, Oberhausen, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
- Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt), University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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Zhang Z, Pang C, Xu W, Liang Y, Jiang H, Li Z, Wu S, Zhu S, Wang H, Cui Z. Synthesis and water splitting performance of FeCoNbS bifunctional electrocatalyst. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 638:893-900. [PMID: 36690570 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.01.072] [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: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Transition metal (TM) sulfides are promising catalysts for water splitting in alkaline media due to their high intrinsic activities and similar TM-S electronic structure with hydrogenase. In this work, the nanoporous FeCoNbS electrocatalyst with nanosheet morphology is synthesized through dealloying AlFeCoNb alloy followed by the steam sulphurization. The introduction of S element improves the electronic structure, further increases the active sites, regulates the mass transfer and enhances the intrinsic activity. The Nb introduction improves the electron transfer ability of the catalyst. The synergistic effect of Fe, Co and Nb improves the intrinsic activity of the active site. The FeCoNbS catalyst exhibits good catalytic performance for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline solution. The overpotentials at 10 mA cm-2 of HER and OER are 83 and 241 mV, respectively. The Tafel slopes of HER and OER are 101.2 and 35.5 mV dec-1, respectively. The FeCoNbS can serve as overall water splitting electrode with the decomposition voltage of 1.61 V at 10 mA cm-2.
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- Zhao Zhang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Composite and Functional Materials, Tianjin 300350, China.
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- Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 9808577, Japan.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China.
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Zhang X, Zhao K, Li H, Li Y, Yang W, Liu J, Li D. Plasma-assisted synthesis of hierarchical defect N-doped iron–cobalt sulfide@Co foam as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting. NEW J CHEM 2023. [DOI: 10.1039/d3nj00675a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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N-doped CoFeS was synthesized via an ion exchange method to prepare a precursor, followed by sulphidation and plasma-assisted engraving in nitrogen gas.
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Sethulakshmi N, Nellaiappan S, Kechanda Prasanna P, Das T, Irusta S, Chakraborty S, Sharma S. Nanocoral Architecture for Enhanced Hydrazine Assisted Water Oxidation: Insight from Experiment and Theory. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Nam D, Lee G, Kim J. Hollow CoFe-based hybrid composites derived from unique S-modulated coordinated transition bimetal complexes for efficient oxygen evolution from water splitting under alkaline conditions. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:14250-14259. [PMID: 36065899 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt02415b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an important reaction in water splitting. However, the high cost and slow-rate catalysts hinder commercial applications. Although an important process for manufacturing of hollow structures, it is difficult to construct complicated hollow structures with an excellent and regulable shape for multi-component materials. In this study, we demonstrate that sulfur-Co,Fe bimetallic nitrogen carbon hollow composite hybrids (x-S-CoFe@NC) can be synthesized by regulating the amount of sulfur and using the hydrothermal method. For OER, 32-S-CoFe@NC exhibits excellent electrocatalytic activity with a low overpotential of 232 mV, which is higher than those of 0-S-CoFe@NC (270 mV), 23-S-CoFe@NC (247 mV), and RuO2 (243 mV) catalysts at 10 mA cm-2. In addition, with air as the cathode, a rechargeable Zn-air battery with outstanding long-life cycling stability for 80 hours based on 32-CoFe@NC + Pt/C is proposed. The advanced technique described here supplies a new route for preparing hollow transition bimetal carbon hybrids with an adjustable composite arrangement for electrocatalysis and water splitting.
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- Dukhyun Nam
- School of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea.
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea.
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea. .,Department of Advanced Materials Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do 17546, Republic of Korea.,Department of Intelligent Energy and Industry, Graduate School, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea
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