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ACS OMEGA
Volume 4, Issue 14, Pages 16130-16138Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02315
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875292, 21706295]
- Science Starting Foundation of Hunan University [531118010182]
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The stainless steel mesh (SSM) has received growing consideration as an electrocatalyst for efficient hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. Recently, the application of SSM as an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst has been more promising, while its hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalytic activity is very low, which definitely affects its overall water splitting activity. Herein, a simple chemical bath deposition (CBD) method followed by phosphorization is employed to significantly boost the overall water splitting performance of SSM. The CBD method could allow the voids between the SSM fibers to be filled with Ni and P. Electrocatalytic studies show that the CBD-treated and phosphorized stainless steel (denoted SSM-Ni-P) exhibits an HER overpotential of 149 mV, while the phosphorization-free CBD-treated SSM (denoted as SSM-Ni) delivers an OER overpotential of 223 mV, both at a current density of 10 mA cm(-2). An asymmetric alkaline electrolyzer assembled based on the SSM-Ni-P cathode (HER) and SSM-Ni anode (OER) achieved an onset and 10 mA cm(-2) current densities at an overall potential of 1.62 V, granting more prospects for the application of inexpensive and highly active electrocatalysts for electrocatalytic water splitting reactions.
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