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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 46, Issue 41, Pages 21542-21548Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.04.003
Keywords
Hydrogen evolution; Pentadentate copper; Heterogeneous; Cu2O; Water splitting
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- Science and Engineering Research Board, India (SERB) [YSS/2015/000829]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (CSIR) [01(2862)/EMR-II]
- Technical Education Quality Improvement programme (TEQIP Phase III) of Government of India
- NIT Sikkim
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Electrochemical reduction studies of a mononuclear Cu(II) complex with a pentadentate amidate ligand resulted in the deposition of a heterogeneous film on the electrode. The formed FTO/Cu2O cathode showed efficient electrocatalytic proton reduction and maintained stability and high Faradaic efficiency in acidic medium.
Electrochemical reduction studies of a mononuclear Cu(II) complex bearing a pentadentate amidate ligand under both aqueous and non-aqueous media revealed the deposition of a heterogeneous film on the electrode. The heterogeneous film was grown on an FTO working electrode by control potential electrolysis (CPE) at -0.9 V vs. NHE for 3 h (pH 3.0, phosphate buffer). Characterization of the electrodeposited film by SEM, EDX and XPS indicates the preferential formation of Cu2O. The FTO/Cu2O cathode, thus formed, exhibits electrocatalytic proton reduction in acidic aqueous medium (pH 3.0) with 95% Faradaic efficiency at moderate overpotential (eta = 320 mV at onset). The overpotential required to reach 1 mA/cm(2) is 530 mV. The FTO/Cu2O cathode maintained a current density of 2.5 mA cm(-2) for a period of 3 h and showed stability after 200 scan cycles. (C) 2021 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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