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Electronic Structure and Crystalline Phase Dual Modulation via Anion-Cation Co-doping for Boosting Oxygen Evolution with Long-Term Stability Under Large Current Density

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 38, Pages 34819-34826

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b08060

Keywords

anion-cation co-doping; OER electrocatalyst; nickel selenide film-based catalyst; long-term stability; large current density

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51772338, U1801255]

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Designing a state-of-the-art nonprecious oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst with ultralong stability under high current density (>= 100 h under 1000 mA cm(-2)) is greatly desirable for the viable electrolysis of water. The synthesis of nanostructure catalysts is an effective method for improving the OER performance, but nanostructure-based catalysts are easily destroyed by mechanical force via the vigorous oxygen gas evolution process at a high current density. Herein, we present a facile strategy of N-anion and Fe-cation dual doping to construct a three-dimensional self- supported nickel selenide film-based catalyst via a one-step chemical vapor deposition process. The film exhibits outstanding OER activity with a small Tafel slope of 34.86 mV dec(-1) and an overpotential of 267 mV at 100 mA cm(-2) in 1 M KOH media. Impressively, the film-based catalyst can maintain this excellent catalytic activity over 100 h, even when operated at a high current density of 1 A cm(-2), thus exhibiting the best reported OER stability under high current density so far. Further studies reveal that anion-cation co-doping can simultaneously modulate the electronic state and phase structure of nickel selenide, thereby promoting the in situ formation and transformation of oxygen-vacancy-rich amorphous OER active species and resulting in the superior OER performance of the film-based catalyst.

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