3D Hierarchical Network Derived from 2D Fe-doped NiSe Nanosheets/Carbon Nanotubes with Enhanced OER Performance for Overall Water Splitting

Author(s):  
Kai Chang ◽  
Duy Thanh Tran ◽  
Jingqiang Wang ◽  
Nam Hoon Kim ◽  
Joong Hee Lee

Designing an earth-abundant electrode material with high activity and durability is a major challenge for water splitting to produce clean and green hydrogen energy. In this study, we reported a...

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixi Ji ◽  
Yanhong Lin ◽  
Jie Zeng ◽  
Zhonghua Ren ◽  
Zijia Lin ◽  
...  

AbstractDevelopment of excellent and cheap electrocatalysts for water electrolysis is of great significance for application of hydrogen energy. Here, we show a highly efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst with multilayer-stacked hybrid structure, in which vertical graphene nanosheets (VGSs), MoS2 nanosheets, and layered FeCoNi hydroxides (FeCoNi(OH)x) are successively grown on carbon fibers (CF/VGSs/MoS2/FeCoNi(OH)x). The catalyst exhibits excellent OER performance with a low overpotential of 225 and 241 mV to attain 500 and 1000 mA cm−2 and small Tafel slope of 29.2 mV dec−1. Theoretical calculation indicates that compositing of FeCoNi(OH)x with MoS2 could generate favorable electronic structure and decrease the OER overpotential, promoting the electrocatalytic activity. An alkaline water electrolyzer is established using CF/VGSs/MoS2/FeCoNi(OH)x anode for overall water splitting, which generates a current density of 100 mA cm−2 at 1.59 V with excellent stability over 100 h. Our highly efficient catalysts have great prospect for water electrolysis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shankar S. Narwade ◽  
Shivsharan M. Mali ◽  
Bhaskar R. Sathe

A study on the in situ decoration of ethylenediamine (EDA) on acid functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (O-MWCNTs) for overall water splitting reactions at all pH as an efficient and inexpensive metal-free multifunctional electrocatalyst.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2572
Author(s):  
Yanfei Fan ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Hongyu Cui ◽  
Wen Wang ◽  
Qiaoyan Shang ◽  
...  

Strontium Titanate has a typical perovskite structure with advantages of low cost and photochemical stability. However, the wide bandgap and rapid recombination of electrons and holes limited its application in photocatalysis. In this work, a SrTiO3 material with surface oxygen vacancies was synthesized via carbon reduction under a high temperature. It was successfully applied for photocatalytic overall water splitting to produce clean hydrogen energy under visible light irradiation without any sacrificial reagent for the first time. The photocatalytic overall water splitting ability of the as-prepared SrTiO3-C950 is attributed to the surface oxygen vacancies that can make suitable energy levels for visible light response, improving the separation and transfer efficiency of photogenerated carriers.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (47) ◽  
pp. 24244-24250
Author(s):  
Wenjun He ◽  
Fangqing Wang ◽  
Dongbo Jia ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Limin Liang ◽  
...  

The development of low-cost, high-activity, durable non-precious metal bifunctional electrocatalysts is of great importance in the production of hydrogen by water electrolysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 3578-3587
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Ping Yang ◽  
San Ping Jiang

Schematic illustration of the formation process and performance of overall water splitting for NiFe-NCNT@MoS2 samples.


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