The synergetic effect of h-BN shells and subsurface B in CoBx@h-BN nanocatalysts for enhanced oxygen evolution reactions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 10644-10648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siru Chen ◽  
Yanqiang Li ◽  
Zhihua Zhang ◽  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Xinhe Bao

CoBx@h-BN core–shell nanocatalysts were prepared via ammonization of Co–B alloy nanoparticles showing high activity and stability in oxygen evolution reactions.

Author(s):  
Yu Jiang ◽  
Shanshan Gao ◽  
Gongchen Xu ◽  
Xiaoming Song

Porous and amorphous CoSx(OH)y core–shell nanoneedles covered by numerous ultra-thin small nanosheets are synthesized successfully on Ti-mesh, and act as a high activity and stability bifunctional catalyst for urea electrolysis.


Author(s):  
Min Jiang ◽  
Wei Fan ◽  
Anquan Zhu ◽  
Pengfei Tan ◽  
Jianping Xie ◽  
...  

This work employs bacteria as precursors and induces a cost-effective biosorption strategy to obtain Fe2P@carbon nanoparticles decorated on N and P co-doped carbon (Fe2P@CNPs/NPC) materials.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Geul Han Kim ◽  
Yoo Sei Park ◽  
Juchan Yang ◽  
Myeong Je Jang ◽  
Jaehoon Jeong ◽  
...  

Developing high performance, highly stable, and low-cost electrodes for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is challenging in water electrolysis technology. However, Ir- and Ru-based OER catalysts with high OER efficiency are difficult to commercialize as precious metal-based catalysts. Therefore, the study of OER catalysts, which are replaced by non-precious metals and have high activity and stability, are necessary. In this study, a copper–cobalt oxide nanosheet (CCO) electrode was synthesized by the electrodeposition of copper–cobalt hydroxide (CCOH) on Ni foam followed by annealing. The CCOH was annealed at various temperatures, and the structure changed to that of CCO at temperatures above 250 °C. In addition, it was observed that the nanosheets agglomerated when annealed at 300 °C. The CCO electrode annealed at 250 °C had a high surface area and efficient electron conduction pathways as a result of the direct growth on the Ni foam. Thus, the prepared CCO electrode exhibited enhanced OER activity (1.6 V at 261 mA/cm2) compared to those of CCOH (1.6 V at 144 mA/cm2), Co3O4 (1.6 V at 39 mA/cm2), and commercial IrO2 (1.6 V at 14 mA/cm2) electrodes. The optimized catalyst also showed high activity and stability under high pH conditions, demonstrating its potential as a low cost, highly efficient OER electrode material.


2013 ◽  
Vol 706-708 ◽  
pp. 219-223
Author(s):  
Hsiu Ling Hsu ◽  
Rosilda Selvin ◽  
L. Selva Roselin

A variety of solid acid catalysts especially 12-Tungstophosphoricacid (DTP) supported on silica has been reported for the acylation of anisole, veratrole and toluene. However, the activity of this catalyst is susceptible to coke formation or poor activity. This paper reports the novelties of steam treated SiO2-DTP core-shell nanoparticles, which exhibits tremendous stability, high activity and enhanced selectivity in the liquid-phase acylation of anisole, veratrole and toluene as compared to conventional DTP supported on silica.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Ma ◽  
Lili Deng ◽  
Manting Lu ◽  
Yi He ◽  
Shuai Zou ◽  
...  

Abstract Although researches on non-noble metal electrocatalysts have been made some progress recently, their performance in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) is still incomparable to that of noble-metal-based catalysts. Therefore, it is a more practical way to improve the utilization of precious metals in electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in the acidic medium. Herein, nanostructured IrCo@IrCoOx core-shell electrocatalysts composed of IrCo alloy core and IrCoOx shell were synthesized through a simple colloidally synthesis and calcination method. As expected, the hybrid IrCo-200 NPs with petal-like morphology show the best OER activities in acidic electrolytes. They deliver lower overpotential and better electrocatalytic kinetics than pristine IrCo alloy and commercial Ir/C, reaching a low overpotential (j = 10 mA/cm2) of 259 mV (vs. RHE) and a Tafel slope of 59 mV dec−1. The IrCo-200 NPs displayed robust durability with life time of about 55 h in acidic solution under a large current density of 50 mA/cm2. The enhanced electrocatalytic activity may be associated with the unique metal/amorphous metal oxide core-shell heterostructure, allowing the improved charge transferability. Moreover, the *OH-rich amorphous shell functions as the active site for OER and prevents the further dissolution of the metallic core and thus ensures high stability.


Nano Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin-Wei Chen ◽  
Fuxiang He ◽  
Ru-Yang Shao ◽  
Qiang-Qiang Yan ◽  
Peng Yin ◽  
...  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Wu Li ◽  
Shi-Kun Su ◽  
Cai-Zhen Yue ◽  
Jun Shu ◽  
Pengfang Zhang ◽  
...  

Electrochemical water splitting is convinced as one of the most promising solutions to combat energy crisis. The exploitation of efficient hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER) bifunctional electrocatalysts is undoubtedly...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Kusada ◽  
Hiroshi Kitagawa

Alloy nanoparticles (NPs), including core-shell, segregated and solid-solution types, show a variety of attractive properties such as catalytic and optical properties and are used in a wide range of applications....


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