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Dalai N, Jena B. Iron Nickel Sulfide Nanorods for Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ChemistrySelect 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202204370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Namita Dalai
- Department of Chemistry Utkal University Bhubaneswar 751004 Odisha India
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- Department of Chemistry Utkal University Bhubaneswar 751004 Odisha India
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Bhoyate SD, Kim J, de Souza FM, Lin J, Lee E, Kumar A, Gupta RK. Science and engineering for non-noble-metal-based electrocatalysts to boost their ORR performance: A critical review. Coord Chem Rev 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214854] [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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Chu Y, Zhang X, Deng B, Wang K, Tan X. A facile method to synthesize 3D nanosheets of Fe/S doped α-Ni(OH)2 as an electrocatalyst for improved oxygen evolution reaction. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2022; 33:405605. [PMID: 35245913 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac5aeb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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S-doped Fe/Ni oxide and Fe/Ni hydride oxide catalysts exhibit good oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance. Nevertheless, the over-doping of S and the agglomeration of active sites still hinder the improvement of the performance of these catalysts. The S/O ratio regulation can optimize the electronic structure effectively so as to improve the OER performance of the catalysts, but few studies have focused on this study. Here, we find a facile room-temperature method to synthesize the unique 3D ultra-thin FeNiOS nanosheets with an adjustable S/O ratio for OER. The FeNiOS-NS catalysts exhibit excellent OER performance with an overpotential of 235 mV at 10 mA cm-2and a small Tafel slope of 64.2 mV dec-1in 0.1 M KOH, which originated from the sufficient exposure of the active Fe-Ni component and the optimized electronic structure due to the tunable S/O ratio. This study demonstrates a novel strategy to optimize the OER performance of Ni-based catalysts.
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- Yuanyuan Chu
- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshui West Road, Tianjin 300387, People's Republic of China
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Shombe GB, Razzaque S, Khan MD, Nyokong T, Mashazi P, Choi J, Bhoyate S, Gupta RK, Revaprasadu N. Low temperature scalable synthetic approach enabling high bifunctional electrocatalytic performance of NiCo 2S 4 and CuCo 2S 4 thiospinels. RSC Adv 2021; 11:31533-31546. [PMID: 35496864 PMCID: PMC9041439 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra02309h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Ternary metal sulfides are currently in the spotlight as promising electroactive materials for high-performance energy storage and/or conversion technologies. Extensive research on metal sulfides has indicated that, amongst other factors, the electrochemical properties of the materials are strongly influenced by the synthetic protocol employed. Herein, we report the electrochemical performance of uncapped NiCo2S4 and CuCo2S4 ternary systems prepared via solventless thermolysis of the respective metal ethyl xanthate precursors at 200 and 300 °C. The structural, morphological and compositional properties of the synthesized nanoparticles were examined by powder X-ray diffraction (p-XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) techniques. Electrochemical studies indicate that NiCo2S4 nanoparticles synthesized at 300 °C exhibit superior energy storage characteristics with a high specific capacitance of ca. 2650 F g−1 at 1 mV s−1, as compared to CuCo2S4 nanoparticles, which showcased a specific capacitance of ca. 1700 F g−1 at the same scan rate. At a current density of 0.5 A g−1, NiCo2S4 and CuCo2S4 nanoparticles displayed specific capacitances of 1201 and 475 F g−1, respectively. In contrast, CuCo2S4 nanoparticles presented a higher electrocatalytic activity with low overpotentials of 269 mV for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and 224 mV for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), at 10 mA cm−2. The stability of the catalysts was examined for 2000 cycles in which a negligible change in both OER and HER activities was observed. A scalable solventless approach is employed to prepare NiCo2S4 and CuCo2S4 with bare surface for enhanced supercapacitance and water splitting. The particles exhibit good energy storage and electrocatalytic activity as well as stability.![]()
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- Ginena Bildard Shombe
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand Private Bag X1001 KwaDlangezwa 3880 South Africa .,Chemistry Department, University of Dar es Salaam P.O. Box 35061 Dar es Salaam Tanzania
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Luoyu Road No. 1037 Wuhan China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand Private Bag X1001 KwaDlangezwa 3880 South Africa .,Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Kasprzaka 44/52 01-224 Warsaw Poland
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- Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation, Rhodes University P.O. Box 94 Makhanda 6140 South Africa
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- Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation, Rhodes University P.O. Box 94 Makhanda 6140 South Africa.,Department of Chemistry, Rhodes University P. O. Box 94 Makhanda 6140 South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University Pittsburg KS 66762 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University Pittsburg KS 66762 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University Pittsburg KS 66762 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand Private Bag X1001 KwaDlangezwa 3880 South Africa
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Mitchell CE, Santos-Carballal D, Beale AM, Jones W, Morgan DJ, Sankar M, de Leeuw NH. The role of surface oxidation and Fe-Ni synergy in Fe-Ni-S catalysts for CO 2 hydrogenation. Faraday Discuss 2021; 230:30-51. [PMID: 33884381 DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00137f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, resulting in climate change, have driven the motivation to achieve the effective and sustainable conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels. Taking inspiration from biological processes, synthetic iron-nickel-sulfides have been proposed as suitable catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2. In order to experimentally validate this hypothesis, here we report violarite (Fe,Ni)3S4 as a cheap and economically viable catalyst for the hydrogenation of CO2 into formate under mild, alkaline conditions at 125 °C and 20 bar (CO2 : H2 = 1 : 1). Calcination of violarite at 200 °C resulted in excellent catalytic activity, far superior to that of Fe-only and Ni-only sulfides. We further report first principles simulations of the CO2 conversion on the partially oxidised (001) and (111) surfaces of stoichiometric violarite (FeNi2S4) and polydymite (Ni3S4) to rationalise the experimentally observed trends. We have obtained the thermodynamic and kinetic profiles for the reaction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) on the catalyst surfaces via substitution and dissociation mechanisms. We report that the partially oxidised (111) surface of FeNi2S4 is the best catalyst in the series and that the dissociation mechanism is the most favourable. Our study reveals that the partial oxidation of the FeNi2S4 surface, as well as the synergy of the Fe and Ni ions, are important in the catalytic activity of the material for the effective hydrogenation of CO2 to formate.
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- Claire E Mitchell
- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK and Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK and Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
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- Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK. and School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. and Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The rapid increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations in the last several decades means that the effects of climate change are fast becoming the familiar horsemen of a planetary apocalypse. Catalysis, one of the pillars of the chemical and petrochemical industries, will play a critical role in the effort to reduce the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This Special Issue is timely, as it provides a collection of high-quality manuscripts in a diverse range of topics, which include the production of green hydrogen via water electrolysis, the steam reforming of ethanol, propane or glycerol, the dry reforming of methane, and the autothermal reforming of diesel surrogate fuel. The topic of the transformation of biomass waste to chemicals is also well represented as is the tackling of CO2 emissions via novel utilization technologies. The Editors are grateful to all authors for their valuable contributions and confident that this Special Issue will prove valuable to scholars, university professors and students alike.
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Jeyagopal R, Chen Y, Ramadoss M, Marimuthu K, Wang B, Li W, Zhang X. A three-dimensional porous CoSnS@CNT nanoarchitecture as a highly efficient bifunctional catalyst for boosted OER performance and photocatalytic degradation. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:3879-3887. [PMID: 31998917 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr09588h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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It is urgent and significant to develop competent, inexpensive transition metal-based catalysts with multifunctional catalytic properties for wide applications. To meet this requirement, herein, for the first time, we present a novel bifunctional CoSnS@CNT hybrid via a simple one-pot surfactant-free hydrothermal method. The CoSnS@CNT hybrid has a unique three-dimensional (3D) porous nanoarchitecture, which is constructed by ultrathin CoSnS homogenously and compactly anchored on a highly conductive CNT skeleton. The porous nanoarchitecture of CoSnS@CNT provides abundant catalytic sites and facilitates ion diffusion, and the CNT skeleton accelerates electron transfer. Benefitting from these merits, the CoSnS@CNT hybrid acted as a bifunctional catalyst with boosted electrocatalytic and photocatalytic performance, where it delivered a tremendous oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance with a low overpotential of 330 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2 and excellent outstanding stability. Moreover, it showed 91.72% photocatalytic degradation for Rhodamine B dye, which is 2-times higher than that of bare CoSnS. This study presents a systematic approach to judiciously design nanostructures and simply synthesize non-noble metal-based bifunctional catalysts with boosted electrocatalytic and photocatalytic activities.
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- Ramkumar Jeyagopal
- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China. and Department of Physics, School of Science, Tibet University, Lhasa, 850000, PR China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China.
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