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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06815-9
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0700104]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21601136, 21603161, 51761165012]
- National Program for Thousand Young Talents of China
- Tianjin Municipal Education Commission
- Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission [15JCYBJC52600]
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Splitting hydrazine into H-2 and N-2 by electro-catalyzing hydrogen evolution and hydrazine oxidation reactions is promising for replacing fossil energy with H-2. However, current hydrazine splitting is achieved using external powers to drive the two reactions, which is inapplicable to outdoor use. Here, Fe-doped CoS2 nanosheets are developed as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the two reactions, by which direct hydrazine fuel cells and overall-hydrazine-splitting units are realized and integrated to form a self-powered H-2 production system. Without external powers, this system employs hydrazine bifunctionally as the fuel of direct hydrazine fuel cell and the splitting target, namely a sole consumable, and exhibits an H-2 evolution rate of 9.95 mmol h(-1), a 98% Faradaic efficiency and a 20-h stability, all comparable to the best reported for self-powered water splitting. These performances are due to that Fe doping decreases the free-energy changes of H adsorption and adsorbed NH2NH2 dehydrogenation on CoS2.
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