Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 47, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab3cba
Keywords
hydrogen evolution reaction; electrochemical oxidation; electrodepostion; Ni-based nanostructure
Funding
- MOE, Singapore Ministry of Education [MOE 2015-T2-2-094]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201806690009]
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Highly active and stable electrocatalysts based on non-precious metals for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline solution are urgently required for enabling mass production of clean hydrogen in industry. Herein, core-shell NiOOH/Ni nanoarchitectures supported on the conductive carbon cloth have been successfully prepared by a facile electrodeposition process of Ni, and a subsequent in situ electrochemical oxidation. When explored as an alkaline HER electrocatalyst, the as-synthesized NiOOH/Ni nanoarchitecture requires only a low overpotential of similar to 111 mV to attain a current density of -10 mA cm(-2), demonstrating its strong catalytic capability of hydrogeneration. The excellent HER activity could well be attributed to the decreasing charge transfer resistance and competitive electrochemical active area of the amorphous NiOOH, compared with inactive Ni substrate. The feasible methodology established in this study can be easily expanded to obtain a series of nano-sized metal oxyhydroxide materials for various energy conversion and storage applications, where Ni-based nanomaterials are among the highly active ones.
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