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Chavan HS, Lee CH, Inamdar AI, Han J, Park S, Cho S, Shreshta NK, Lee SU, Hou B, Im H, Kim H. Designing and Tuning the Electronic Structure of Nickel–Vanadium Layered Double Hydroxides for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Harish S. Chavan
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Center for Bionano Intelligence Education and Research, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan 15588, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
- Quantum-functional Research Centre, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
- Quantum-functional Research Centre, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Center for Bionano Intelligence Education and Research, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan 15588, South Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, U.K
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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Chavan HS, Hou B, Jo Y, Inamdar AI, Im H, Kim H. Optimal Rule-of-Thumb Design of Nickel-Vanadium Oxides as an Electrochromic Electrode with Ultrahigh Capacity and Ultrafast Color Tunability. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:57403-57410. [PMID: 34806376 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c18613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The use of electrodes capable of functioning as both electrochromic windows and energy storage devices has been extended from green building development to various electronics and displays to promote more efficient energy consumption. Herein, we report the electrochromic energy storage of bimetallic NiV oxide (NiVO) thin films fabricated using chemical bath deposition. The best optimized NiVO electrode with a Ni/V ratio of 3 exhibits superior electronic conductivity and a large electrochemical surface area, which are beneficial for enhancing electrochemical performance. The color switches between semitransparent (a discharged state) and dark brown (a charged state) with excellent reproducibility because of the intercalation and deintercalation of OH- ions in an alkaline KOH electrolyte. A specific capacity of 2403 F g-1, a coloration efficiency of 63.18 cm2 C-1, and an outstanding optical modulation of 68% are achieved. The NiVO electrode also demonstrates ultrafast coloration and bleaching behavior (1.52 and 4.79 s, respectively), which are considerably faster than those demonstrated by the NiO electrode (9.03 and 38.87 s). It retains 91.95% capacity after 2000 charge-discharge cycles, much higher than that of the NiO electrode (83.47%), indicating that it has significant potential for use in smart energy storage applications. The superior electrochemical performance of the best NiVO compound electrode with an optimum Ni/V compositional ratio is due to the synergetic effect between the high electrochemically active surface area induced by V-doping-improved redox kinetics (low charge-transfer resistance) and fast ion diffusion, which provides a facile charge transport pathway at the electrolyte/electrode interface.
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- Harish S Chavan
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, U.K
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea
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Inamdar AI, Chavan HS, Hou B, Lee CH, Lee SU, Cha S, Kim H, Im H. A Robust Nonprecious CuFe Composite as a Highly Efficient Bifunctional Catalyst for Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting. Small 2020; 16:e1905884. [PMID: 31762207 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201905884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
To generate hydrogen, which is a clean energy carrier, a combination of electrolysis and renewable energy sources is desirable. In particular, for both the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in electrolysis, it is necessary to develop nonprecious, efficient, and durable catalysts. A robust nonprecious copper-iron (CuFe) bimetallic composite is reported that can be used as a highly efficient bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting in an alkaline medium. The catalyst exhibits outstanding OER and HER activity, and very low OER and HER overpotentials (218 and 158 mV, respectively) are necessary to attain a current density of 10 mA cm-2 . When used in a two-electrode water electrolyzer system for overall water splitting, it not only achieves high durability (even at a very high current density of 100 mA cm-2 ) but also reduces the potential required to split water into oxygen and hydrogen at 10 mA cm-2 to 1.64 V for 100 h of continuous operation.
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- Akbar I Inamdar
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Department of Bionano Technology and Department of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bionano Technology and Department of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, Republic of Korea
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Gunjakar JL, Hou B, Inamdar AI, Pawar SM, Ahmed ATA, Chavan HS, Kim J, Cho S, Lee S, Jo Y, Hwang SJ, Kim TG, Cha S, Kim H, Im H. Two-Dimensional Layered Hydroxide Nanoporous Nanohybrids Pillared with Zero-Dimensional Polyoxovanadate Nanoclusters for Enhanced Water Oxidation Catalysis. Small 2018; 14:e1703481. [PMID: 30371003 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201703481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) is critical in electrochemical water splitting and requires an efficient, sustainable, and cheap catalyst for successful practical applications. A common development strategy for OER catalysts is to search for facile routes for the synthesis of new catalytic materials with optimized chemical compositions and structures. Here, nickel hydroxide Ni(OH)2 2D nanosheets pillared with 0D polyoxovanadate (POV) nanoclusters as an OER catalyst that can operate in alkaline media are reported. The intercalation of POV nanoclusters into Ni(OH)2 induces the formation of a nanoporous layer-by-layer stacking architecture of 2D Ni(OH)2 nanosheets and 0D POV with a tunable chemical composition. The nanohybrid catalysts remarkably enhance the OER activity of pristine Ni(OH)2 . The present findings demonstrate that the intercalation of 0D POV nanoclusters into Ni(OH)2 is effective for improving water oxidation catalysis and represents a potential method to synthesize novel, porous hydroxide-based nanohybrid materials with superior electrochemical activities.
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- Jayavant L Gunjakar
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
- D. Y. Patil Education society (Deemed to be University), Kolhapur, MS, 416006, India
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Center for Intelligent Nano-Bio Materials (CINBM), Department of Chemistry and Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 03670, South Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, South Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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Aqueel Ahmed AT, Hou B, Chavan HS, Jo Y, Cho S, Kim J, Pawar SM, Cha S, Inamdar AI, Kim H, Im H. Self-Assembled Nanostructured CuCo 2 O 4 for Electrochemical Energy Storage and the Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Morphology Engineering. Small 2018; 14:e1800742. [PMID: 29882393 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201800742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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CuCo2 O4 films with different morphologies of either mesoporous nanosheets, cubic, compact-granular, or agglomerated embossing structures are fabricated via a hydrothermal growth technique using various solvents, and their bifunctional activities, electrochemical energy storage and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for water splitting catalysis in strong alkaline KOH media, are investigated. It is observed that the solvents play an important role in setting the surface morphology and size of the crystallites by controlling nucleation and growth rate. An optimized mesoporous CuCo2 O4 nanosheet electrode shows a high specific capacitance of 1658 F g-1 at 1 A g-1 with excellent restoring capability of ≈99% at 2 A g-1 and superior energy density of 132.64 Wh kg-1 at a power density of 0.72 kW kg-1 . The CuCo2 O4 electrode also exhibits excellent endurance performance with capacity retention of 90% and coulombic efficiency of ≈99% after 5000 charge/discharge cycles. The best OER activity is obtained from the CuCo2 O4 nanosheet sample with the lowest overpotential of ≈290 mV at 20 mA cm-2 and a Tafel slope of 117 mV dec-1 . The superior bifunctional electrochemical activity of the mesoporous CuCo2 O4 nanosheet is a result of electrochemically favorable 2D morphology, which leads to the formation of a very large electrochemically active surface area.
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- Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, 04620, South Korea
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Gunjakar JL, Inamdar AI, Hou B, Cha S, Pawar SM, Abu Talha AA, Chavan HS, Kim J, Cho S, Lee S, Jo Y, Kim H, Im H. Direct growth of 2D nickel hydroxide nanosheets intercalated with polyoxovanadate anions as a binder-free supercapacitor electrode. Nanoscale 2018; 10:8953-8961. [PMID: 29634061 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr09626g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A mesoporous nanoplate network of two-dimensional (2D) layered nickel hydroxide Ni(OH)2 intercalated with polyoxovanadate anions (Ni(OH)2-POV) was built using a chemical solution deposition method. This approach will provide high flexibility for controlling the chemical composition and the pore structure of the resulting Ni(OH)2-POV nanohybrids. The layer-by-layer ordered growth of the Ni(OH)2-POV is demonstrated by powder X-ray diffraction and cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The random growth of the intercalated Ni(OH)2-POV nanohybrids leads to the formation of an interconnected network morphology with a highly porous stacking structure whose porosity is controlled by changing the ratio of Ni(OH)2 and POV. The lateral size and thickness of the Ni(OH)2-POV nanoplates are ∼400 nm and from ∼5 nm to 7 nm, respectively. The obtained thin films are highly active electrochemical capacitor electrodes with a maximum specific capacity of 1440 F g-1 at a current density of 1 A g-1, and they withstand up to 2000 cycles with a capacity retention of 85%. The superior electrochemical performance of the Ni(OH)2-POV nanohybrids is attributed to the expanded mesoporous surface area and the intercalation of the POV anions. The experimental findings highlight the outstanding electrochemical functionality of the 2D Ni(OH)2-POV nanoplate network that will provide a facile route for the synthesis of low-dimensional hybrid nanomaterials for a highly active supercapacitor electrode.
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- Jayavant L Gunjakar
- Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, South Korea.
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