Defective crystalline molybdenum phosphides as bifunctional catalysts for hydrogen evolution and hydrazine oxidation reactions during water splitting

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2686-2695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Gao ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Ting He ◽  
Jun-Ye Zhang ◽  
Hao Sun ◽  
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Defect-rich crystalline molybdenum phosphide nanoparticles anchored on reduced graphene oxide serve as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for both hydrogen evolution and hydrazine oxidation reactions.

Author(s):  
Kaiming Guo ◽  
Firdoz Shaik ◽  
Jine Yang ◽  
Bin Jiang

Abstract Water splitting is considered as a potential sustainable and green technology for producing mass hydrogen and oxygen. A cost-effective self-supported stable electrocatalyst with excellent electrocatalytic performance in a wide pH range is greatly required for water splitting. This work reports on the synthesis and anchoring of Fe1CoxNiyP nanoparticles on vertically aligned reduced graphene oxide array (VrGO) via electroless plating. The catalytic activity of Fe1CoxNiyP nanoparticles is tuned finely by tailoring the cationic ratio of Co and Ni. Fe1Co2Ni1P/VrGO exhibits the lowest overpotential (58 and 110 mV) at 10 mA cm−2 and lowest tafel slope (31 and 33 mV dec−1) for hydrogen evolution reaction in 1.0 M KOH and 0.5 M H2SO4 respectively. Fe1Co1Ni2P/VrGO exhibits the lowest overpotential (173 mV) at 10 mA cm−2 with lowest tafel slope (47 mV dec-1) for oxygen evolution reaction. The enhanced performance of the electrocatalyst is attributed to improved electrical conductivity, synergistic effects and beneficial electronic states caused by the appropriate atomic ratio of Co and Ni in the bifunctional electrocatalyst. This study helps to explore the effect of variable cationic ratio in the cost-effective ternary iron group metal phosphides electrocatalysts to achieve enhanced electrocatalytic performance for water splitting in a wide pH range.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (93) ◽  
pp. 12576-12579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Sen Li ◽  
Jing-Quan Sha ◽  
Bing Du ◽  
Bo Tang

A coupled hybrid of molybdenum phosphide and reduced graphene oxide has been synthesized utilizing Mo-based MOFs as precursors through a facile method for the first time. The nanocomposite exhibits superior electrocatalytic performance, which is one of the best MoP-based electrocatalysts under acidic conditions reported so far.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (57) ◽  
pp. 8810-8813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyong He ◽  
Juzhou Tao

A novel highly active and stable HER catalyst containing two-dimensional TaC nanosheets hybridized with reduced graphene oxide (2D TaC–RGO) was prepared as an efficient and stable hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 4686-4690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianmei Wang ◽  
Wenrong Yang ◽  
Jingquan Liu

CoP2nanoparticles decorated reduced graphene oxide sheet (CoP2/RGO) acts as a super-efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for full water splitting.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (25) ◽  
pp. 13680-13687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lulu Chen ◽  
Haeseong Jang ◽  
Min Gyu Kim ◽  
Qing Qin ◽  
Xien Liu ◽  
...  

A Fe, Al-codoped NiSe2 on rGO catalyst exhibits the enhanced activity and durability toward HER and OER, due to the synergistic contribution of the dual-cation co-doping effect and the more defects created by the Al leaching.


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