Journal
CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue 16, Pages 2796-2801Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900752
Keywords
defect engineering; heterogeneous catalysis; oxidation; spinel; urea
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Funding
- Thousand Young Talents Program of China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51602200, 61874074]
- Science and Technology Project of Shenzhen [JCYJ20170817101100705, JCYJ20170817100111548, ZDSYS201707271014468]
- (Key) Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province [2016KZDXM008]
- Shenzhen Peacock Plan [KQTD2016053112042971]
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Urea is an important organic pollutants in sewage and needs to be removed for environmental protection. Here, we report defective NiFe2O4 (NFO) nanoparticles with excellent performance for urea electro-oxidation. The results show that defects can be effectively implanted at the surface of NFO nanoparticles by a facile and versatile lithium reduction method without affecting its main crystal structure and grain size. The defective NFO-5Li nanoparticles displayed a significantly improved urea electro-oxidation performance compared with NFO-Pristine nanoparticles. Particularly, the NFO-Pristine and NFO-5Li show a potential of 1.398 and 1.361 V at the current density of 10 mA cm(-2) and Tafel slope of 37.3 and 31.4 mV dec(-1), respectively. In addition, the NFO-5Li nanoparticles also revealed outstanding electrocatalytic stability. The superior performance can be attributed to the designed tunable surface defect engineering. Furthermore, the defect engineering strategy as well as the defective NFO nanoparticles hold great potential for applications in other materials and areas.
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