scholarly journals Green and facile synthesis of cerium doped Ni3Fe electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen evolution reaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-363
Author(s):  
F. Kanwal ◽  
A. Batool ◽  
R. Akbar ◽  
S. Asim ◽  
M. Saleem

Electrochemical water splitting is the most promising pathway to produce high-purity hydrogen to alleviate global energy crisis. This reaction demands inexpensive, efficient and robust electrocatalyst for its commercial use. Herein, we demonstrate an effective, facile and scalable method for the synthesis of cerium doped Ni3Fe nanostructures as an electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) by following simple chemical bath deposition route. The different molar ratios (3, 6 and 12 mM) of cerium in the chemical bath were used to study its effect on the structural and the electrochemical properties of the Ni3Fe nanostructured films. Doping of cerium contents induced variations in the morphology of deposited Ni3Fe nanostructures. The optimized electrocatalyst Ni3Fe/Ce-6 yielded high surface area catalyst nanosheets uniformly deposited on three-dimensional conductive scaffold to ensure increase in the exposure of doped Ni3Fe catalytic sites with high electrical conductivity. As a result, this earth-abundant electrocatalyst affords high OER performance with a small overpotential of 310 mV versus reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE) at 10 mA cm-2 and retains good stability up to ~ 10 h in alkaline electrolyte. This scalable strategy has great potential in future advancement of efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts for their large-scale application in energy conversion systems.                     KEY WORDS: Oxygen evolution, Electrocatalyst, Ni3Fe nanostructures, Cerium, Alkaline electrolyte   Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 2020, 34(2), 353-363 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/bcse.v34i2.12

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.


Author(s):  
Sisir Maity ◽  
Dheeraj Kumar Singh ◽  
Divya Bhutani ◽  
Suchitra Prasad ◽  
Umesh V. Waghmare ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1783-1790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai-Li Yan ◽  
Jing-Qi Chi ◽  
Zi-Zhang Liu ◽  
Bin Dong ◽  
Shan-Shan Lu ◽  
...  

Ag-doped mesoporous NiCoO nanorods as efficient and stable electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction have been synthesized with desirable conductivity, high surface area and rich oxygen vacancies.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengjiao Yu ◽  
Qi Ying ◽  
Shaofeng Ni ◽  
Chenxue Li ◽  
Daxiang Xue ◽  
...  

Large-scale application of rechargeable Zn-air batteries requires low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as alternatives to noble metals. Herein, FeCo nanoparticles embedded in N-doped...


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 2514-2520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Yuyin Wang ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Chun-Sen Liu ◽  
Huan Pang

ZIF-8@ZIF-67@POM hybrids were synthesized using a simple coprecipitation method, and they exhibit remarkable performance in OER, with the synergistic effect between POM and ZIF species, their regular architecture and their high surface area.


ChemCatChem ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 4982-4982
Author(s):  
Marjan Bele ◽  
Kevin Stojanovski ◽  
Primoz Jovanovič ◽  
Leonard Moriau ◽  
Gorazd Koderman Podboršek ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. B363 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Neyerlin ◽  
Greg Bugosh ◽  
Rhys Forgie ◽  
Zengcai Liu ◽  
Peter Strasser

2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (17) ◽  
pp. 5363-5367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Xu ◽  
Qianqian Jiang ◽  
Zhaohui Xiao ◽  
Xingyue Li ◽  
Jia Huo ◽  
...  

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