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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 2023-2036Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03514
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- CSIR-New Delhi
- UGC
- DST
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) [DST/TMD/HFC/2K18/60, 18-29-03/(31/19)-TTBD-CSIR-CECRI]
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Research on using layer double hydroxide (LDH) materials in the process of water electrolysis for hydrogen production shows potential applications, but the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity is poor. Improving the HER activity can be achieved through the inclusion of selenium and oxygen vacancies in the LDH lattice.
Production of hydrogen by water electrolysis is an environment-friendly method and comparatively greener than other methods of hydrogen production such as stream reforming carbon, hydrolysis of metal hydride, etc. However, sluggish kinetics of the individual half-cell reactions hinders the large-scale production of hydrogen. To minimize this disadvantage, finding an appropriate, competent, and low-cost catalyst has attracted attention worldwide. Layer double hydroxide (LDH)-based materials are promising candidates for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) but not fruitful and their hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity is very poor, due to the lack of ionic conductivity. The inclusion of chalcogenide and generation of inherent oxygen vacancies in the lattice of LDH lead to improvement of both OER and HER activities. The presence of rich oxygen vacancies was confirmed using both the Tauc plot (1.11 eV, vacancy induction) and the photoluminescence study (peak at 426 nm, photoregeneration of oxygen). In this work, we have developed vacancy-enriched, selenized CoFe-LDH by the consequent wet-chemical and hydrothermal routes, respectively, which was used for OER and HER applications in 1 M KOH and 0.5 M H2SO4 electrolytes, respectively. For OER, the catalyst required only 251 mV overpotential to reach a 50 mA/cm(2) current density with a Tafel slope value of 47 mV/dec. For HER, the catalyst demanded only 222 mV overpotential for reaching a 50 mA/cm(2) current density with a Tafel slope value of 126 mV/dec. Hence, generating oxygen vacancies leads to several advantages from enhancing the exposed active sites to high probability in obtaining electrocatalytically active species and subsequent assistance in oxygen and hydrogen molecule cleavage.
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